Tariff Hearings Before the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives, Sixtieth Congress, 1908-1909, Volumen2 |
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Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. said statement will be
furnished to your committee before December 4.) If any reduction is made, it will
be necessary to ask our workmen to accept a corresponding reduction in wages.
Geo.
Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. said statement will be
furnished to your committee before December 4.) If any reduction is made, it will
be necessary to ask our workmen to accept a corresponding reduction in wages.
Geo.
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Mr. COCKRAN . You say that the cost of labor in this country compares to the cost
of labor abroad in the proportion of 1 to 3 . Mr. CLAUSE . What I mean to say is
that the rates of wages that we pay are more than three times the rates that they ...
Mr. COCKRAN . You say that the cost of labor in this country compares to the cost
of labor abroad in the proportion of 1 to 3 . Mr. CLAUSE . What I mean to say is
that the rates of wages that we pay are more than three times the rates that they ...
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From the workman's point of view the strongest argument is presented when you
contrast the wages and mode of living in the various European countries with the
wages paid in the United States and the American standard of living .
From the workman's point of view the strongest argument is presented when you
contrast the wages and mode of living in the various European countries with the
wages paid in the United States and the American standard of living .
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It is an association of manufacturers organized for the sole purpose of negotiating
the question of wages . ... I presume neither ; standing between organized labor
in these mills and the employer , a kind of arbitrator on the wage question .
It is an association of manufacturers organized for the sole purpose of negotiating
the question of wages . ... I presume neither ; standing between organized labor
in these mills and the employer , a kind of arbitrator on the wage question .
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Did you not say that the rate of wages, on the whole, has risen steadily since the
steel business has been begun; that the men are getting more than ever now? Mr
. CARNEGIE. Certain specialists are getting more, as they prove themselves to ...
Did you not say that the rate of wages, on the whole, has risen steadily since the
steel business has been begun; that the men are getting more than ever now? Mr
. CARNEGIE. Certain specialists are getting more, as they prove themselves to ...
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Página 1466 - Act, which is similar, either in material, quality, texture, or the use to which it may be applied, to any article enumerated in this Act as chargeable with duty, shall pay the same rate of duty which is levied on the enumerated article which it most resembles in any of the particulars before mentioned...
Página 1770 - The superiority of one country over another in a branch of production, often arises only from having begun it sooner. There may be no inherent advantage on one part, or disadvantage on the other, but only a present superiority of acquired skill and experience.
Página 1090 - ... and whether their contents be dutiable or free (except such as contain merchandise subject to an ad valorem rate of duty, or to a rate of duty based in whole or in part upon the value thereof, which shall be dutiable at the rate applicable to their contents...
Página 1531 - Wheels for railway purposes, or parts thereof, made of iron or steel, and steel-tired wheels for railway purposes, whether wholly or partly finished...
Página 1770 - The only case in which, on mere principles of political economy, protecting duties can be defensible, is when they are imposed temporarily (especially in a young and rising nation) in hopes of naturalizing a foreign industry, in itself perfectly suitable to the circumstances of the country.
Página 1770 - But it cannot be expected that individuals should, at their own risk, or rather to their certain loss, introduce a new manufacture, and bear the...
Página 1887 - In all tariff legislation the true principle of protection is best maintained by the imposition of such duties as will equal the difference between the cost of production at home and abroad, together with a reasonable profit to American industries.
Página 1530 - Articles or wares not specially provided for in this Act, composed wholly or in part of iron, steel, lead, copper, nickel, pewter, zinc, gold, silver, platinum, aluminum or other metal, and whether partly or wholly manufactured, forty-five per centum ad valorem.
Página 1474 - Iron in pigs, iron kentledge, spiegeleisen, ferro-manganese, ferrosilicon, wrought and cast scrap iron, and scrap steel, four dollars per ton ; but nothing shall be deemed scrap iron or scrap steel except waste or refuse iron or steel fit only to be remanufactured.
Página 1895 - Railway bars, made of iron or steel, and railway bars made in part of steel, T rails, and punched iron or steel flat rails, seven-twentieths of one cent per pound; railway fish-plates or splice-bars, made of iron or steel, four-tenths of one cent per pound.