Eight Hours for Laborers on Government Work: Hearings Before the Committee on Labor of the House of Representatives, February 4, 11, 18, 25, March 3, 4, 10, 17, 22, 23, 24, 25, and 26, 1904 ... |
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... limit him to eight hours a day , six days in the week , I say that when the matter is explained to the individual workingman he is opposed to it . I have also the information to impart to the committee in regard to the attitude of the ...
... limit him to eight hours a day , six days in the week , I say that when the matter is explained to the individual workingman he is opposed to it . I have also the information to impart to the committee in regard to the attitude of the ...
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... limit their hours of labor . Why ? asks he . Let me answer by saying because it means more leisure , more rest , more opportunity , as he sarcastically refers to our flowery language , for going to the parks , of having better homes ...
... limit their hours of labor . Why ? asks he . Let me answer by saying because it means more leisure , more rest , more opportunity , as he sarcastically refers to our flowery language , for going to the parks , of having better homes ...
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... limits that goes to I am not competent to speak upon ; I am not a lawyer and am not competent to speak on the legal phases of this matter at all , but simply on the phases that occur to the business men with whom I have talked and who ...
... limits that goes to I am not competent to speak upon ; I am not a lawyer and am not competent to speak on the legal phases of this matter at all , but simply on the phases that occur to the business men with whom I have talked and who ...
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... limits that this thing may go . There is no telling where it might stop . It would stop wherever people chose to enforce it . You can not see , I think , as business men , the justice or the equity of holding a man responsible for the ...
... limits that this thing may go . There is no telling where it might stop . It would stop wherever people chose to enforce it . You can not see , I think , as business men , the justice or the equity of holding a man responsible for the ...
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... limit it on Government work to the laborer and the mechanic ? Why not say that the employer should only work eight hours a day ; why not say that ? Why not say that his firemen and his engineers and his designers and his draftsmen and ...
... limit it on Government work to the laborer and the mechanic ? Why not say that the employer should only work eight hours a day ; why not say that ? Why not say that his firemen and his engineers and his designers and his draftsmen and ...
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ACTING CHAIRMAN American argument Association basis battle ship believe Bethlehem Steel Company Bridgeport building CALDWELL CALLOWAY cent CHADWICK Chicago committee Company compete CONGRESS THE LIBRARY CONNER contract contractor cost Court COVELL DAVENPORT day's DOWNEY eight eight-hour bill eight-hour day eight-hour system eight-hour workday employed employer fact factory favor FLETCHER FORBES FREEGARD FURUSETH gentlemen GILBERT GOEBEL GOMPERS Government HAYDEN hear HEARST hours a day hours of labor HUGHES HUNT industry inspector interests JENKS legislation LIBRARY OF CONGRESS LOMAS machine machinery machinists MACINTYRE manufacturers matter McCammon mean ment mill Newark nine hours number of hours o'clock O'CONNELL operation organization overtime penalty piecework plant production proposition provisions question reduced represent SCHULTEIS shipbuilding SPALDING statement steel subcontractor suppose ten hours ten-hour day thing tion to-day trade Trenton understand United violation wages workday workingman workmen
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Page 225 - O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities: For nought so vile that on the earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give...
Page 427 - District, which may require or involve the employment of laborers or mechanics shall contain a provision that no laborer or mechanic doing any part of the work contemplated by the contract in the employ of the contractor or any subcontractor contracting for any part of said work contemplated shall be required or permitted to work more than eight hours in any one calendar day...
Page 430 - Columbia, is hereby limited and restricted to eight hours in any one calendar day, and it shall be unlawful for any officer of the United States...
Page 433 - There are certain vital principles in our free Republican governments, which will determine and overrule an apparent and flagrant abuse of legislative power; as to authorize manifest injustice by positive law; or to take away that security for personal liberty, or private property, for the protection of which the government was established.
Page 433 - I cannot subscribe to the omnipotence of a state legislature, or that it is absolute and without control; although its authority should not be expressly restrained by the constitution, or fundamental law of the State.
Page 35 - That the service and employment of all laborers and mechanics who are now or may hereafter be employed by the Government of the United States, by the District of Columbia, or by any contractor or subcontractor upon any of the public works of the United States...
Page 3 - SEC. 2. That nothing in this act shall apply to contracts for transportation by land or water, or for the transmission of intelligence, or for the purchase of supplies by the Government, whether manufactured to conform to particular specifications or not...
Page 395 - That nothing in this act shall apply to contracts for transportation by land or water, or for the transmission of intelligence, or for the purchase of supplies by the Government, whether manufactured to conform to particulan specifications or not, or for such materials or articles as may usually be bought in open market, except armor and armor plate, whether made to conform to particular specifications or not...
Page 433 - ... they may command what is right, and prohibit what is wrong; but they cannot change innocence into guilt; or punish innocence as a crime; or violate the right of an antecedent lawful private contract; or the right of private property. To maintain that our federal or state legislature possesses such powers, if they had not been expressly restrained, would, * in my opinion, be [ * 389 [ a political heresy altogether inadmissible in our free republican governments.
Page 168 - He shall also, from time to time, make such special investigations and reports as he may be required to do by the President, or by Congress, or which he himself may deem necessary.