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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... legislation the prescription of a more detailed standard would be difficult or impractical.1 The leading decisions ... legislation covering such case , separately , would be impracticable in view of the vast and varied interests which ...
... legislation the prescription of a more detailed standard would be difficult or impractical.1 The leading decisions ... legislation covering such case , separately , would be impracticable in view of the vast and varied interests which ...
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... legislation unconstitutional was due to the fact that it was inclined to look upon labor legislation as an interference with the police power of the several States , and that they gave little attention to the interpretation of labor ...
... legislation unconstitutional was due to the fact that it was inclined to look upon labor legislation as an interference with the police power of the several States , and that they gave little attention to the interpretation of labor ...
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... legislation like this on the books , the better off the people will be . Representative WOOD . I was very much interested in Senator Ellender's request or suggestion that you draft an amendment pro- viding that no employee who has had ...
... legislation like this on the books , the better off the people will be . Representative WOOD . I was very much interested in Senator Ellender's request or suggestion that you draft an amendment pro- viding that no employee who has had ...
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... legislation versus Federal legislation are doing so to hinder and delay the consideration of the solution to the national unemployment problem . We have all of us seen what happens when these questions are put before State legislators ...
... legislation versus Federal legislation are doing so to hinder and delay the consideration of the solution to the national unemployment problem . We have all of us seen what happens when these questions are put before State legislators ...
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... legislation leads , as it surely will , to separate State legislation operating in intrastate commerce . Representative CONNERY . Do I get you right , taking Senator Davis's statement , taking Pittsburgh , for example , if wages go up ...
... legislation leads , as it surely will , to separate State legislation operating in intrastate commerce . Representative CONNERY . Do I get you right , taking Senator Davis's statement , taking Pittsburgh , for example , if wages go up ...
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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...