Thirty-hour Work Week: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Seventy-second Congress, Second Session, on S. 5267, a Bill to Prevent Interstate Commerce in Certain Commodities and Articles Produced Or Manufactured in Industrial Activities in which Persons are Employed More Than Five Days Per Week Or Six Hours Per Day ... |
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... COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY , Washington , D. C. The subcommittee met , pursuant to call , at 10.30 o'clock a . m . , in the committee room , Capitol , Senator George W. Norris ( chairman ) presiding . Present : Senators Norris ...
... COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY , Washington , D. C. The subcommittee met , pursuant to call , at 10.30 o'clock a . m . , in the committee room , Capitol , Senator George W. Norris ( chairman ) presiding . Present : Senators Norris ...
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... Committee on the Judiciary. One hundred and forty - five firms ( 89 per cent ) worked a 10 - hour night or more , and 86 ( 53 per cent of all ) worked 11 hours ; 25 worked a normal 12 - hour night and 4 worked 13 hours . I guess I have ...
... Committee on the Judiciary. One hundred and forty - five firms ( 89 per cent ) worked a 10 - hour night or more , and 86 ( 53 per cent of all ) worked 11 hours ; 25 worked a normal 12 - hour night and 4 worked 13 hours . I guess I have ...
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... Committee on the Judiciary . This figure shows one significant fact , the increase in unemployment from October to November has been less by 300,000 than in any other year in this depression . This may be explained in part by the fact ...
... Committee on the Judiciary . This figure shows one significant fact , the increase in unemployment from October to November has been less by 300,000 than in any other year in this depression . This may be explained in part by the fact ...
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... Committee on the Judiciary. Senator BLACK . It does not . The ideas are separate and distinct , and this was offered merely for the major evil which we have . Mr. GREEN . Well , we could absorb in the Government service a large number of ...
... Committee on the Judiciary. Senator BLACK . It does not . The ideas are separate and distinct , and this was offered merely for the major evil which we have . Mr. GREEN . Well , we could absorb in the Government service a large number of ...
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... Committee on the Judiciary. they added to the hourly rates the percentage of increase that was reflected in the increased efficiency of the employee who was working on a shorter time basis , for there is not any question but what a ...
... Committee on the Judiciary. they added to the hourly rates the percentage of increase that was reflected in the increased efficiency of the employee who was working on a shorter time basis , for there is not any question but what a ...
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Page 362 - The genius and character of the whole government seem to be, that its action is to be applied to all the external concerns of the nation, and to those internal concerns which affect the states generally ; but not to those which are completely within a particular state, which do not affect other states, and with which it is not necessary to interfere for the purpose of executing some of the general powers of the government. The completely internal commerce of a state, then, may be considered as reserved...
Page 541 - But the proposition that there are legislative powers affecting the nation as a whole which belong to, although not expressed in the grant of powers, is in direct conflict with the doctrine that this is a government of enumerated powers.
Page 189 - No distinction is more popular to the common mind, or more clearly expressed in economic and political literature, than that between manufacture and commerce. Manufacture is transformation — the fashioning of raw materials into a change of form for use. The functions of commerce are different. The buying and selling and the transportation incidental thereto constitute commerce...
Page 509 - See yonder poor, o'erlabour'd wight, So abject, mean, and vile, Who begs a brother of the earth To give him leave to toil ; And see his lordly fellow-worm The poor petition spurn, Unmindful, though a weeping wife And helpless offspring mourn.
Page 362 - 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 538 - In our view the necessary effect of this act is, by means of a prohibition against the movement in interstate commerce of ordinary commercial commodities, to regulate the hours of labor of children in factories and mines within the States, a purely state authority.
Page 195 - The grant of power to Congress over the subject of Interstate commerce was to enable it to regulate such commerce, and not to give it authority to control the States in their exercise of the police power over local trade and manufacture.
Page 395 - God give us Men! A time like this demands Strong minds, great hearts, true faith, and ready hands; Men whom the lust of office does not kill; Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy; Men who possess opinions and a will; Men who have honor — men who will not lie; Men who can stand before a demagogue, And scorn his treacherous flatteries without winking ; Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above the fog In public duty and in private thinking; For while the rabble, with their thumb-worn creeds, Their...
Page 361 - ... the power over commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, is vested in congress as absolutely as it would be in a single government, having in its constitution the same restrictions on the exercise of the power as are found in the constitution of the United States.
Page 189 - The result would be that Congress would be invested, to the exclusion of the states, with the power to regulate, not only manufactures, but also agriculture, horticulture, stock raising, domestic fisheries, mining — in short, every branch of human industry.