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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... figures to be used as a guide by the administrative agency in establishing a floor below which wages shall not be ... figure was inserted in the statute for the guidance of the administrative agency . Under the proposed bill not only is ...
... figures to be used as a guide by the administrative agency in establishing a floor below which wages shall not be ... figure was inserted in the statute for the guidance of the administrative agency . Under the proposed bill not only is ...
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... figures at random , we find the full fashioned hosiery industry in the State of Tennessee - of the women in these mills not quite two - thirds earned less than $ 15 per week and a little over one - fourth earned less than $ 10 per week ...
... figures at random , we find the full fashioned hosiery industry in the State of Tennessee - of the women in these mills not quite two - thirds earned less than $ 15 per week and a little over one - fourth earned less than $ 10 per week ...
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... figures , in the States of Delaware and West Virginia 16 percent in West Virginia earned less than $ 10 per week and 59 percent earned less than $ 15 per week . In Delaware these figures show that 17 percent earned less than $ 10 a week ...
... figures , in the States of Delaware and West Virginia 16 percent in West Virginia earned less than $ 10 per week and 59 percent earned less than $ 15 per week . In Delaware these figures show that 17 percent earned less than $ 10 a week ...
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... figures , because I cannot keep them all in my head . Mr. RAMSPECK . Do you keep any record with reference to the investment in that mill village to see whether the rents make a return on the investment ? Mr. JOHNSON . Yes , sir ; we do ...
... figures , because I cannot keep them all in my head . Mr. RAMSPECK . Do you keep any record with reference to the investment in that mill village to see whether the rents make a return on the investment ? Mr. JOHNSON . Yes , sir ; we do ...
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... figures that we had in the council it appeared that if you had as low as 10 , as the figure , there would be an ... figures before you ? Mr. PAINE . Yes ; we have at the council . I did not bring that with me , but it is in the records ...
... figures that we had in the council it appeared that if you had as low as 10 , as the figure , there would be an ... figures before you ? Mr. PAINE . Yes ; we have at the council . I did not bring that with me , but it is in the records ...
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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...