Fair Labor Standards Act of 1937: Joint Hearings Before the Committee on Education and Labor, United States Senate, and the Committee on Labor, House of Representatives, Seventy-fifth Congress, First Session, on S. 2475 and H.R. 7200, Bills to Provide for the Establishment of Fair Labor Standards in Employments in and Affecting Interstate Commerce and for Other Purposes. June 2 to June 5 1937, Volumes 1-3 |
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... Association - of the two alternatives you outline , which would they prefer ? I would not care to voice any opinion as to what their viewpoint may be . Senator LEE . Mr. Johnson , I could hardly resist from applauding when I heard a ...
... Association - of the two alternatives you outline , which would they prefer ? I would not care to voice any opinion as to what their viewpoint may be . Senator LEE . Mr. Johnson , I could hardly resist from applauding when I heard a ...
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... Association , which has more than 1,000 employ- ing units in that association . Captain Greef is not here as yet this afternoon . Mr. Paul S. Hanway . Mr. Hanway has a brief that he would like to present . Mr. Hanway represents the ...
... Association , which has more than 1,000 employ- ing units in that association . Captain Greef is not here as yet this afternoon . Mr. Paul S. Hanway . Mr. Hanway has a brief that he would like to present . Mr. Hanway represents the ...
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... Association and president of Voltarc Tubes , Inc. There is Mr. Pennybacker [ indicating ] . He is down here in support of the bill . Then we have Mr. W. M. Richardson , president of the National Portland Cement Co. He is not here . He ...
... Association and president of Voltarc Tubes , Inc. There is Mr. Pennybacker [ indicating ] . He is down here in support of the bill . Then we have Mr. W. M. Richardson , president of the National Portland Cement Co. He is not here . He ...
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... Association , referred to , is as follows :) The Honorable , the JOINT CONGRESSIONAL LABOR COMMITTEE , The Congress of the United States , Washington , D. C. GENTLEMEN : Your petitioner has been an executive manager of a trade asso ...
... Association , referred to , is as follows :) The Honorable , the JOINT CONGRESSIONAL LABOR COMMITTEE , The Congress of the United States , Washington , D. C. GENTLEMEN : Your petitioner has been an executive manager of a trade asso ...
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... Association of New York City . The CHAIRMAN . How many employees does your association have ? I understood you represented the association . Mr. HANWAY . Approximately 8,000 . The CHAIRMAN . Now , will you state your criticisms of the ...
... Association of New York City . The CHAIRMAN . How many employees does your association have ? I understood you represented the association . Mr. HANWAY . Approximately 8,000 . The CHAIRMAN . Now , will you state your criticisms of the ...
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Page 640 - ... a statute which either forbids or requires the doing of an act in terms so vague that men of common intelligence must necessarily guess at its meaning and differ as to its application...
Page 307 - labor dispute' includes any controversy concerning terms, tenure or conditions of employment, or concerning the association or representation of persons in negotiating, fixing, maintaining, changing, or seeking to arrange terms or conditions of employment, regardless of whether the disputants stand in the proximate relation of employer and employee.
Page 48 - Produced" means produced, manufactured, mined, handled, or in any other manner worked on in any State; and for the purposes of this Act an employee shall be deemed to have been engaged in the production of goods if such employee was employed in producing, manufacturing, mining, handling, transporting, or in any other manner working on such goods, or in any closely related process or occupation directly essential to the production thereof, in any State.
Page 14 - The Constitution has never been regarded as denying to the Congress the necessary resources of flexibility and practicality, which will enable it to perform its function in laying down policies and establishing standards, while leaving to selected instrumentalities the making of subordinate rules...
Page 13 - Congress legislated on the subject as far as was reasonably practicable, and from the necessities of the case was compelled to leave to executive officials the duty of bringing about the result pointed out by the statute.
Page 390 - Proceedings of the thirteenth annual convention of the Association of Governmental Labor Officials of the United States and Canada, held at Columbus, Ohio, June 7.10, 1926.
Page 294 - ... (2) may be guided by like considerations as would guide a court in a suit for the reasonable value of services rendered where services are rendered at the request of an employer without contract as to the amount of the wage to be paid, and (3) may consider the wages paid in the state for work of like or comparable character by employers who voluntarily maintain minimum fair wage standards.
Page 6 - I do not, however, object to the revision of it, and am quite willing that it be regarded hereafter as the law of this court, that its opinion upon the construction of the Constitution is always open to discussion when it is supposed to have been founded in error, and that its judicial authority should hereafter depend altogether on the force of the reasoning by which it is supported.
Page 700 - ... to influence or coerce employees in an effort to induce them to join or remain or not to join or remain members of any labor organization...
Page 7 - The act does not meddle with anything belonging to the States. They may regulate their internal affairs and their domestic commerce as they like. But when they seek to send their products across the State line they are no longer within their rights. If there were no Constitution and no Congress, their power to cross the line would depend upon their neighbors. Under the Constitution such commerce belongs not to the States but to Congress to regulate. It may carry out its views of public policy whatever...