Child-labor Bill: Hearings Before the Committee on Labor, House of Representatives, Sixty-fourth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 8234, a Bill to Prevent Interstate Commerce in the Products of Child Labor, & for Other Purposes. January 10, 11, & 12, 1916U.S. Government Printing Office, 1916 - 317 páginas |
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... cent of the total number of employees in the mills . In 1910 there were 20 per cent employed . The tendency is to decrease . In North Carolina alone last year , without any revision of the law , there was a decrease of 836 in the number ...
... cent of the total number of employees in the mills . In 1910 there were 20 per cent employed . The tendency is to decrease . In North Carolina alone last year , without any revision of the law , there was a decrease of 836 in the number ...
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... cent of illiterates in your State ? Mr. CLARK . No ; it is 12 per cent now . Mr. LONDON . Do you know anything about the effect of mill work on the children as to illiteracy ? Mr. CLARK . The mill has done more to decrease illiteracy in ...
... cent of illiterates in your State ? Mr. CLARK . No ; it is 12 per cent now . Mr. LONDON . Do you know anything about the effect of mill work on the children as to illiteracy ? Mr. CLARK . The mill has done more to decrease illiteracy in ...
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... cent for printers and 46 per cent for clerks , etc. The percentage for tex- tile mill workers , as you see , is only 22 per cent . There is very little tuberculosis now in the cotton mills ; not as much as in other com- munities . The ...
... cent for printers and 46 per cent for clerks , etc. The percentage for tex- tile mill workers , as you see , is only 22 per cent . There is very little tuberculosis now in the cotton mills ; not as much as in other com- munities . The ...
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... cents . Mr. MAHER . Is that 90 cents a day ? It Mr. CLARK . Ninety cents a day . That is a very low wage now . used to be about 45 cents for doffers in 1898 , but since that time wages have gone up remarkably . I have figures covering ...
... cents . Mr. MAHER . Is that 90 cents a day ? It Mr. CLARK . Ninety cents a day . That is a very low wage now . used to be about 45 cents for doffers in 1898 , but since that time wages have gone up remarkably . I have figures covering ...
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... cents , and the father $ 1 per day . Total weekly family income $ 47.94 . family : Two girls between 14 and 19 years of age , a boy 17 and the father . Mother does not work . The three children are weavers , paid by piece- work , and ...
... cents , and the father $ 1 per day . Total weekly family income $ 47.94 . family : Two girls between 14 and 19 years of age , a boy 17 and the father . Mother does not work . The three children are weavers , paid by piece- work , and ...
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11 hours 48-hour week 8-hour day age limit ALMON argument bill boys BRADLEY canneries cent certificate CHAIRMAN child labor child-labor law children under 14 CLARK commerce clause committee compulsory education Constitution cotton mills DENISON Education.-School attendance compulsory effect eight hours eight-hour day EMERY employees employment of children enacted Exemption fact factory families females fifth amendment gentlemen HARRIS hours a day industry interstate commerce issued by school KEATING KITCHIN legislation legislature LONG lottery Massachusetts McBRAYER ment mercantile establishment messenger service night NOLAN North Carolina occupations prohibited oleomargarine operatives oysters PALMER PARKINSON Pass Christian PATTERSON penalties first offense permit permits.-Under 16 power of Congress power to regulate prohibited under 14 proof of age provision question regulate commerce Roanoke Rapids RUFFIN SHERARD SMITH South southern statement SUMNERS Supreme Court tion to-day tuberculosis violation wages
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Página 281 - We are now arrived at the inquiry, what is this power? 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.
Página 267 - Bureau shall investigate and report . . . upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people...
Página 142 - ... and declares only that the powers "not delegated to the United States, nor prohibited to the States, are reserved to the States or to the people.
Página 149 - The liberty mentioned in that Amendment means not only the right of the citizen to be free from the mere physical restraint of his person, as by incarceration, but the term is deemed to embrace the right of the citizen to be free in the enjoyment of all his faculties; to be free to use them in all lawful ways; to live and work where he will; to earn his livelihood by any lawful calling; to pursue any livelihood or avocation, and for that purpose to enter into all contracts which may be proper, necessary,...
Página 256 - In discussing the subject of compulsory education, it may be well to quote the following congressional act to prevent interstate commerce in the products of child labor, and for other purposes: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled.
Página 279 - The wisdom and the discretion of congress, their identity with the people, and the influence which their constituents possess at elections are in this, as in many other instances, — as that, for example, of declaring war, — the sole restraints on which they have relied to secure them from its abuse. They are the restraints on which the people must often rely solely in all representative governments.
Página 166 - 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; and the regulation of commerce in the constitutional sense embraces the regulation at least of such transportation.
Página 166 - 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 166 - 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. For is there one of them that does not contemplate, more or less clearly, an interstate or foreign market?
Página 148 - Contracts to buy, sell, or exchange goods to be transported among the several states, the transportation and its instrumentalities, and articles bought, sold, or exchanged for the purposes of such transit among the states, or put in the way of transit, may be regulated; but this is because they form part of interstate trade or commerce.