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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... violation of laws in our State . Mr. Swift , who is here to - day , says that there have been violations of the law , but he does not say where the law is being violated . About all you hear down at Greensboro , according to Mr. Swift ...
... violation of laws in our State . Mr. Swift , who is here to - day , says that there have been violations of the law , but he does not say where the law is being violated . About all you hear down at Greensboro , according to Mr. Swift ...
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... violation of the law is reported to the county superintendent of education , and by him to the district solicitors . Mr. KEATING . Do you think that when Gov. Kitchin , in his mes- sage of 1911 , stated to the legislature , " I renew my ...
... violation of the law is reported to the county superintendent of education , and by him to the district solicitors . Mr. KEATING . Do you think that when Gov. Kitchin , in his mes- sage of 1911 , stated to the legislature , " I renew my ...
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... violated the law ? Mr. CLARK . Yes , sir . Mr. KEATING . Would you mind giving the name of that man to the committee ? Mr. CLARK . I would not care to give his name . Mr. NOLAN . You say the petitions were filed with southern Con ...
... violated the law ? Mr. CLARK . Yes , sir . Mr. KEATING . Would you mind giving the name of that man to the committee ? Mr. CLARK . I would not care to give his name . Mr. NOLAN . You say the petitions were filed with southern Con ...
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... violation of this law ? Mr. CLARK . I do ; certainly . It was so testified at the National Child Labor Conference last year by an inspector from Maryland . Mr. KEATING . If this law was enacted , you believe the Depart- ment of Labor ...
... violation of this law ? Mr. CLARK . I do ; certainly . It was so testified at the National Child Labor Conference last year by an inspector from Maryland . Mr. KEATING . If this law was enacted , you believe the Depart- ment of Labor ...
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... violated this law . For instance , if I have a thousand customers scattered all over the United States , and if my customer is shipping goods that were made by our mill , you are in position to demand that our customer shall be able to ...
... violated this law . For instance , if I have a thousand customers scattered all over the United States , and if my customer is shipping goods that were made by our mill , you are in position to demand that our customer shall be able to ...
Términos y frases comunes
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
Pasajes populares
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.