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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... passed by the House of Representatives by a practically unanimous vote . We who advocate the passage of this bill believe that because of these facts , because notwithstanding the large array of local talent which has been retained and ...
... passed by the House of Representatives by a practically unanimous vote . We who advocate the passage of this bill believe that because of these facts , because notwithstanding the large array of local talent which has been retained and ...
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... passed by practically a unanimous vote of the House , a bill that in the Senate was referred to the Senate Committee on Education and Labor and at various times reported favorably by the committee - and at no time in the history of this ...
... passed by practically a unanimous vote of the House , a bill that in the Senate was referred to the Senate Committee on Education and Labor and at various times reported favorably by the committee - and at no time in the history of this ...
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... passed , in order that they may be met . Now , if the programme- The CHAIRMAN . Pardon me . Is that not a very general practice in legislative proceedings - that gentlemen come before committees to be heard on a bill in protest ? Mr ...
... passed , in order that they may be met . Now , if the programme- The CHAIRMAN . Pardon me . Is that not a very general practice in legislative proceedings - that gentlemen come before committees to be heard on a bill in protest ? Mr ...
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... passed a law , as you probably know , which forbade , made it unlawful , for any contractor or subcontractor doing work upon the public work to require or permit any laborer or mechanic to work more than eight hours in any calendar day ...
... passed a law , as you probably know , which forbade , made it unlawful , for any contractor or subcontractor doing work upon the public work to require or permit any laborer or mechanic to work more than eight hours in any calendar day ...
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... passed . Why , gentlemen , during the French Revolution , when Madame Roland mounted the scaffold she saw standing before her in the Place de la Concord that plaster statue of Liberty , which the French people had erected there , and as ...
... passed . Why , gentlemen , during the French Revolution , when Madame Roland mounted the scaffold she saw standing before her in the Place de la Concord that plaster statue of Liberty , which the French people had erected there , and as ...
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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.