Bituminous Coal Commission: Hearings...on S. 4490...Dec. 14, 1928 to Jan. 23, 1929 |
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... fact is known to the entire country . It is known to the pro- ducers of coal . The full facts in regard to the mining and market- ing of bituminous coal have been reported to Congress by half a dozen commissions , the last one the fact ...
... fact is known to the entire country . It is known to the pro- ducers of coal . The full facts in regard to the mining and market- ing of bituminous coal have been reported to Congress by half a dozen commissions , the last one the fact ...
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... fact , for example , that the Nation can not consume the potential output of coal . We can not hope that consumption will ever catch up with maximum pro- duction . Overdevelopment we have with us as a fixed fact . It is not a new ...
... fact , for example , that the Nation can not consume the potential output of coal . We can not hope that consumption will ever catch up with maximum pro- duction . Overdevelopment we have with us as a fixed fact . It is not a new ...
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... fact , only 55 per cent of them operated for even that average of 139 days , and 10 per cent operated for only 60 days during the year . Yet if the largest 84 of these 338 mines in Illinois had been operated for 300 days during the year ...
... fact , only 55 per cent of them operated for even that average of 139 days , and 10 per cent operated for only 60 days during the year . Yet if the largest 84 of these 338 mines in Illinois had been operated for 300 days during the year ...
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... facts , but I do not want to try to express myself on something that I know very little about . Senator SACKETT . Mr ... fact that the present methods of mining were extremely wasteful , which is a very true thing . Have you considered ...
... facts , but I do not want to try to express myself on something that I know very little about . Senator SACKETT . Mr ... fact that the present methods of mining were extremely wasteful , which is a very true thing . Have you considered ...
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... fact . I was told so , that that conveyor had paid for itself within the last two years ; and they are bringing all of the coal out of that mine . Senator SACKETT . That is a very good instance of it . But that conveyor requires that ...
... fact . I was told so , that that conveyor had paid for itself within the last two years ; and they are bringing all of the coal out of that mine . Senator SACKETT . That is a very good instance of it . But that conveyor requires that ...
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Page 154 - It is the power to regulate ; that is, to prescribe the rule by which commerce is to be governed. This power, like all others vested in Congress, is complete in itself, may be exercised to its utmost extent, and acknowledges no limitations other than are prescribed in the Constitution.
Page 102 - Nothing contained in the antitrust laws shall be construed to forbid the existence and operation of labor, agricultural, or horticultural organizations, instituted for the purposes of mutual help, and not having capital stock or conducted for profit, or to forbid or restrain individual members of such organizations from lawfully carrying out the legitimate objects thereof; nor shall such organizations, or the members thereof, be held or construed to be illegal combinations or conspiracies in restraint...
Page 310 - ... full freedom of association, self-organization, and designation of representatives of his own choosing, to negotiate the terms and conditions of his employment, and that he shall be free from the interference, restraint, or coercion of employers of labor, or their agents, In the designation of such representatives or in self-organization or in other concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection...
Page 310 - Whereas under prevailing economic conditions, developed with the aid of governmental authority for owners of property to organize in the corporate and other forms of ownership association, the individual unorganized worker is commonly helpless to exercise actual liberty of contract and to protect his freedom of labor, and thereby to obtain acceptable terms and conditions of employment...
Page 155 - The far-reaching result of upholding the act cannot be more plainly indicated than by pointing out that if Congress can thus regulate matters entrusted to local authority by prohibition of the movement of commodities in interstate commerce, all freedom of commerce will be at an end, and the power of the States over local matters may be eliminated, and thus our system of government be practically destroyed.
Page 164 - When we consider the nature and the theory of our institutions of government, the principles upon which they are supposed to rest, and review the history of their development, we are constrained to conclude that they do not mean to leave room for the play and action of purely personal and arbitrary power.
Page 195 - The federal and State governments are in fact but different agents and trustees of the people, constituted with different powers, and designated for different purposes.
Page 155 - The maintenance of the authority of the States over matters purely local is as essential to the preservation of our institutions as is the conservation of the supremacy of the federal power in all matters entrusted to the Nation by the Federal Constitution.
Page 251 - Columbia, shall be subject to pay annually a special excise tax with respect to the carrying on or doing business...
Page 161 - The right to pursue them, without let or hindrance, except that which is applied to all persons of the same age, sex, and condition, is a distinguishing privilege of citizens of the United States, and an essential element of that freedom which they claim as their birthright.