Thirty-hour Work Week: Hearings Before a Subcommittee...on S. 87, January 31, February 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16, 19351935 - 493 páginas |
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... piece of legislation . I have offered it , for reasons which I shall here- after state , with the idea that it shall increase the aggregate purchasing power of those who must buy the goods and commodities THIRTY - HOUR WORK WEEK 5.
... piece of legislation . I have offered it , for reasons which I shall here- after state , with the idea that it shall increase the aggregate purchasing power of those who must buy the goods and commodities THIRTY - HOUR WORK WEEK 5.
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... reason of cir- cumstances beyond its control , it has failed in one of the two chief objectives of private business . It has failed to give employment to people who need it , and we are today still facing a situation with millions of ...
... reason of cir- cumstances beyond its control , it has failed in one of the two chief objectives of private business . It has failed to give employment to people who need it , and we are today still facing a situation with millions of ...
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... reason why it should be exempted from a law which would apply to other indus- tries employing a large number of people . Consequently it is in- cluded and , in my judgment , it should remain included in any measure which regulates the ...
... reason why it should be exempted from a law which would apply to other indus- tries employing a large number of people . Consequently it is in- cluded and , in my judgment , it should remain included in any measure which regulates the ...
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... reason why we should not in every way encourage the invention of machinery which will displace human labor ; but when we do that we will continue to throw our economic machinery wholly and completely out of balance if we increase ...
... reason why we should not in every way encourage the invention of machinery which will displace human labor ; but when we do that we will continue to throw our economic machinery wholly and completely out of balance if we increase ...
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... reason was there why they could not have worked two shifts , if it was necessary to produce ? They adopt a service re- quirement , and they have adopted every kind of plan that might be found in the inefficient production system in ...
... reason was there why they could not have worked two shifts , if it was necessary to produce ? They adopt a service re- quirement , and they have adopted every kind of plan that might be found in the inefficient production system in ...
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30 hours 30-hour bill 30-hour week 50 percent 6-hour day American Armour & Co Association automobile average bituminous coal Brookings Institute capital cents Chairman coal committee commodities Congress consumer Court decline decrease demand depression dollars duction earnings economic effect efficiency employed employees employment fact factory farmer Federal figures Government hourly hours per week increase in cost increased costs industry interstate commerce labor costs legislation LEVY man-hours manufacturing ment million mines minimum wage national income National Recovery Administration newspaper number of hours operation output pay rolls period plants present President production profits proposed provisions purchasing power question recovery reduced regulation relief result REYMOND SAXON Senator AUSTIN Senator BLACK Senator HATCH Senator MCCARRAN Senator NEELY standard of living statement subcommittee tion trade unem unemployed United UNITED STATES SENATE wage earners wage rates weekly workers
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Página 226 - ... the free inhabitants of each of these states, paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from Justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several states; and the people of each state shall have free ingress and regress to and from any other state, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of trade and commerce, subject to the same duties, impositions and restrictions as the inhabitants thereof respectively...
Página 232 - If it be held that the term includes the regulation of all such manufactures as are intended to be the subject of commercial transactions in the future — it is impossible to deny that it would also include all productive industries that contemplate the same thing. 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...
Página 226 - The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different States in this Union, the free inhabitants of each of these States, paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States...
Página 232 - The power being vested in Congress and denied to the States, it would follow as an inevitable result that the duty would devolve on Congress to regulate all of these delicate, multiform, and vital interests — interests which in their nature are and must be, local in all the details of their successful management.
Página 232 - 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.
Página 226 - State, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of trade and commerce subject to the same duties, impositions, and restrictions as the inhabitants thereof respectively; provided that such restrictions shall not extend so far as to prevent the removal of property imported into any State to any other State of which the owner is an inhabitant...
Página 243 - Emergency does not create power. Emergency does not increase granted power or remove or diminish the restrictions imposed upon power granted or reserved. The Constitution was adopted in a period of grave emergency. Its grants of power to the Federal Government and its limitations of the power of the States were determined in the light of emergency, and they are not altered by emergency.
Página 233 - When the commerce begins is determined, not by the character of the commodity, nor by the intention of the owner to transfer it to another state for sale, nor by his preparation of it for transportation, but by its actual delivery to a common carrier for transportation, or the actual commencement of its transfer to another state.
Página 239 - Dagenhart case is clear. The congressional power over interstate commerce is, within its proper scope, just as complete and unlimited as the congressional power to tax, and the legislative motive in its exercise is just as free from judicial suspicion and inquiry. Yet when Congress threatened to stop interstate commerce in ordinary and necessary commodities, unobjectionable as subjects of transportation, and to deny the same to the people of a State in order to coerce them into compliance with Congress's...
Página 239 - So here the socalled tax is a penalty to coerce people of a State to act as Congress wishes them to act in respect of a matter completely the business of the state government under the Federal Constitution.