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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... tell without referring to the record just how many days were consumed in the hearings , because I know some days we sat all day and at other times we met on Thurs- day and had a hearing and then had another hearing the next day . Mr ...
... tell without referring to the record just how many days were consumed in the hearings , because I know some days we sat all day and at other times we met on Thurs- day and had a hearing and then had another hearing the next day . Mr ...
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... tell you a little more , if you will overlook the apparent egotism in the matter . I want to tell you a little more of what I am and why I am in this connection . I live in Bridgeport , Conn . That is some 25 miles from a town in ...
... tell you a little more , if you will overlook the apparent egotism in the matter . I want to tell you a little more of what I am and why I am in this connection . I live in Bridgeport , Conn . That is some 25 miles from a town in ...
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... tell them what there is about this thing , and see what can be done in order to face the thing ? " So , gentlemen , I started , without any letters of introduction , with- out any credentials , without any special qualifications for the ...
... tell them what there is about this thing , and see what can be done in order to face the thing ? " So , gentlemen , I started , without any letters of introduction , with- out any credentials , without any special qualifications for the ...
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... tell you- Mr. GILBERT . Whom did you talk with , the employers or the employees ? Mr. DAVENPORT . The employees . For instance , I went down to Philadelphia . There are those great Baldwin Locomotive Works . Of course , when these ...
... tell you- Mr. GILBERT . Whom did you talk with , the employers or the employees ? Mr. DAVENPORT . The employees . For instance , I went down to Philadelphia . There are those great Baldwin Locomotive Works . Of course , when these ...
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... bill . I have no doubt it has occurred to a good many of you gentle- men that there might be some question as to the constitutionality of this bill . Let me tell you , gentlemen , EIGHT HOURS FOR LABORERS ON GOVERNMENT WORK . 25.
... bill . I have no doubt it has occurred to a good many of you gentle- men that there might be some question as to the constitutionality of this bill . Let me tell you , gentlemen , EIGHT HOURS FOR LABORERS ON GOVERNMENT WORK . 25.
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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.