To Rehabilitate and Stabilize Labor Conditions in the Textile Industry of the United States: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Labor, House of Representatives, Seventy-fourth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 9072. January 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, and February 3, 4, 5, and 6, 1936 |
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... hand , the carpet and rug division seems to be getting along fairly well under a system of inventory control . The National Textile Act gives the Commission power , under strict limitations and with adequate protection to the consumer ...
... hand , the carpet and rug division seems to be getting along fairly well under a system of inventory control . The National Textile Act gives the Commission power , under strict limitations and with adequate protection to the consumer ...
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... hand . During the intervening year , it has , of course , been necessary to replace these stocks under the increased costs imposed by the code . As a consequence , we find a shift of business to northern mills due to a disproportionate ...
... hand . During the intervening year , it has , of course , been necessary to replace these stocks under the increased costs imposed by the code . As a consequence , we find a shift of business to northern mills due to a disproportionate ...
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... hand labor , and of installing , more generally , high - speed modern equipment comparable with that used in competing areas . Such improvements , it must be remembered , are ordinarily made out of surpluses created over long periods ...
... hand labor , and of installing , more generally , high - speed modern equipment comparable with that used in competing areas . Such improvements , it must be remembered , are ordinarily made out of surpluses created over long periods ...
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... hand . Mr. GILBERT . I will apologize to you for the time I have taken . Mr. KELLER . You have answered a great many questions and you have answered them honestly . And I am glad we have given you the time . What I did want to ask ...
... hand . Mr. GILBERT . I will apologize to you for the time I have taken . Mr. KELLER . You have answered a great many questions and you have answered them honestly . And I am glad we have given you the time . What I did want to ask ...
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... hand of the unscrupulous management of industry- ( a ) to cut wages and increase hours ; and ( b ) To increase the machine load per worker , thus increasing the productive powers of the worker , at a lower wage , with drastic dis ...
... hand of the unscrupulous management of industry- ( a ) to cut wages and increase hours ; and ( b ) To increase the machine load per worker , thus increasing the productive powers of the worker , at a lower wage , with drastic dis ...
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Page 12 - ... (4) Complaints, orders, and other process and papers of the Board, its member, agent, or agency, may be served either personally or by registered mail or by telegraph or by leaving a copy thereof at the principal office or place of business of the person required to be served.
Page 6 - Representatives designated or selected for the purposes of collective bargaining by the majority of the employees in a unit appropriate for such purposes, shall be the exclusive representatives of all the employees in such unit for the purposes of collective bargaining in respect to rates of pay, wages, hours of employment, or other conditions of employment...
Page 12 - General, to institute proceedings in equity to prevent and restrain such violations. Such proceedings may be by way of petition setting forth the case and praying that such violation shall be enjoined or otherwise prohibited. When the parties complained of shall have been duly notified of such petition the court shall proceed, as soon as may be, to the hearing and determination of the case; and pending such petition and before final decree, the court may at any time make such temporary restraining...
Page 6 - Provided, That nothing in this Act, or in any other statute of the United States, shall preclude an employer from making an agreement with a labor organization (not established, maintained, or assisted by any action...
Page 12 - Witnesses summoned before the Commission, its member, agent, or agency, shall be paid the same fees and mileage that are paid witnesses in the courts of the United States, and witnesses whose depositions are taken and the persons taking the same shall severally be entitled to the same fees -as are paid for like services in the courts of the United States.
Page 10 - ... shall have power to grant such temporary relief or restraining order as it deems just and proper, and to make and enter upon the pleadings, testimony, and proceedings set forth in such transcript a decree enforcing, modifying, and enforcing as so modified, or setting aside in whole or in part the order of the Board.
Page 11 - Board, its member, agent, or agency, there to produce evidence if so ordered, or there to give testimony touching the matter under investigation or in question ; and any failure to obey such order of the court may be punished by said court as a contempt thereof.
Page 11 - ... shall be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any transaction, matter, or thing concerning which he is compelled, after having claimed his privilege against self-incrimination, to testify or produce evidence, except that such individual so testifying shall not be exempt from prosecution and punishment for perjury committed in so testifying.
Page 566 - Thus the act in a twofold sense is repugnant to the Constitution. It not only transcends the authority delegated to Congress over commerce, but also exerts a power as to a purely local matter to which the federal authority does not extend.
Page 10 - Board with respect to questions of fact if supported by substantial evidence on the record considered as a whole shall be conclusive. If either party shall apply to the court for leave to adduce additional evidence and shall show to the satisfaction of the court that such additional evidence is material and that there were reasonable grounds for the failure to adduce such evidence in the hearing before the Board, its...