Coal: Hearings Before the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representaties, Sixty-ninth Congress, First Session, on Coal Legislation, Volumes 1-3U.S. Government Printing Office, 1926 - Coal |
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... American institutions , to focus public attention , to create an intelligent and informed public opinion , to bring to bear upon the offending party the com pelling influence of disapprobation . i I think that sentence is a chunk of ...
... American institutions , to focus public attention , to create an intelligent and informed public opinion , to bring to bear upon the offending party the com pelling influence of disapprobation . i I think that sentence is a chunk of ...
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... America , in the anthracite field , in which this very problem is discussed . One reason why these 155,000 organized workers ( they are 100 cent organized ) are not satisfied is that they feel that the profits per in some of these coal ...
... America , in the anthracite field , in which this very problem is discussed . One reason why these 155,000 organized workers ( they are 100 cent organized ) are not satisfied is that they feel that the profits per in some of these coal ...
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... America ) that unionizes the hard - coal fields . That is why , Mr. Rayburn , I want to call your attention to the ... American stock , the Welsh and the English , are mine workers . In many cases their fathers were miners before them ...
... America ) that unionizes the hard - coal fields . That is why , Mr. Rayburn , I want to call your attention to the ... American stock , the Welsh and the English , are mine workers . In many cases their fathers were miners before them ...
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... American Institute of Mining and Metallurgi- cal Engineers . This publication was as late as February of this year . The gentleman who questioned my figures thought that I exag- gerated slightly , but I find that an analysis of their ...
... American Institute of Mining and Metallurgi- cal Engineers . This publication was as late as February of this year . The gentleman who questioned my figures thought that I exag- gerated slightly , but I find that an analysis of their ...
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... American people are fair and are willing to pay a fair price for an adequate continuous supply . My contention is that as the industry is organized to - day , if it does not change , if there is not a drastic change in the industry , we ...
... American people are fair and are willing to pay a fair price for an adequate continuous supply . My contention is that as the industry is organized to - day , if it does not change , if there is not a drastic change in the industry , we ...
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Page 261 - That the labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce. 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,...
Page 267 - Commission; (b) to make such just and reasonable directions with respect to car service without regard to the ownership as between carriers of locomotives, cars, and other vehicles, during such emergency as in its opinion will best promote the service in the interest of the public and the commerce of the people...
Page 286 - Coronado case the court ruled that while the mere reduction in the supply of an article to be shipped in interstate commerce by the illegal or tortious prevention of its manufacture or production is ordinarily an indirect and remote obstruction to that commerce...
Page 279 - 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.
Page 272 - It has been repeatedly decided that these amendments should receive a liberal construction, so as to prevent stealthy encroachment upon or "gradual depreciation" of the rights secured by them, by imperceptible practice of courts or by well-intentioned but mistakenly over-zealous executive officers.
Page 271 - It may be that it is the obnoxious thing in its mildest and least repulsive form ; but illegitimate and unconstitutional practices get their first footing in that way, namely, by silent approaches and slight deviations from legal modes of procedure. This can only be obviated by adhering to the rule that constitutional provisions for the security of person and property should be liberally construed.
Page 281 - She was employed as an instrument of that commerce; for whenever a commodity has begun to move as an article of trade from one state to another, commerce in that commodity between the states has commenced.
Page 261 - Provided, however. That no part of this money shall be spent in the prosecution of any organization or individual for entering into any combination or agreement having in view the increasing of wages, shortening of hours or bettering the condition of labor, or for any act done in furtherance thereof not in itself unlawful...
Page 284 - Such are the railroads, other common carriers, and public utilities. 2. Certain occupations, regarded as exceptional, the public interest attaching to which, recognized from earliest times, has survived the period of arbitrary laws by Parliament or Colonial legislatures for regulating all trades and callings. Such are those of the keepers of inns, cabs, and grist mills.