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Page 240 - Witnesses summoned before the commission shall be paid the same fees and mileage that are paid witnesses in the courts of the United States...
Page 238 - ... may invoke the aid of the United States courts to compel witnesses to attend and testify and to produce such books, papers, contracts, agreements and documents to the same extent and under the same conditions and penalties as is provided for in the Act to regulate commerce, approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and the amendments thereto.
Page 239 - Said commission may, from time to time, make or amend such general rules or orders as may be requisite for the order and regulation of proceedings before it, including forms of notices and the service thereof, which shall conform, as nearly as may be, to those in use in the courts of the United States.
Page 240 - All of the expenses of the commission, including all necessary expenses for transportation incurred by the commissioners or by their employees under their orders, in making any investigation, or upon official business in any other places than in the city of Washington, shall be allowed and paid on the presentation of itemized vouchers therefor approved by the commission.
Page 69 - The elasticity (or responsiveness) of demand in a market is great or small according as the amount demanded increases much or little for a given fall in price, and diminishes much or little for a given rise in price1.
Page 238 - All testimony before said board shall be given under oath or affirmation, and any member of the board shall have the power to administer oaths or affirmations. The board of arbitration, or any member thereof, shall have the power to require the attendance of witnesses and the production of such books, papers, contracts, agreements, and documents as may be deemed by the board of arbitration material to a just determination of the matters submitted to its arbitration...
Page 19 - It has happened to some of us to ascend a mountain slope just up to the point where the desire was just compensated by the difficulty, of further progress. Such is the position of the economic man on a primary short-period supply-curve sloping upwards. Suppose that, as a party of mountaineers press up a steep slope, the opposing crest gives way, and they are carried down by a sort of avalanche, and landed on a new inclined plane. Again they urge their toilsome march upwards; and again, before the...
Page 117 - ... employers and organizations of employees, as to the general conditions under which labor shall thereafter be performed. Such differences are likely to involve larger numbers of persons than those of the first class and to be more difficult of adjustment. The settlement of such general questions may be likened to an act of legislation; the interpretation and application of the general contract may be likened to a judicial act. We may now discuss the relation between the different practices named...
Page 239 - That for the purposes of this Act the commission may, whenever it deems it expedient, enter and inspect any public institution, factory, workshop, or mine, and may employ one or more competent experts to examine accounts, books, or official reports, or to examine and report on any matter material to the investigation in which such examination and report may be deemed of substantial assistance.
Page 52 - In trades which have any sort of monopoly the workers, by limiting their numbers, may secure very high wages at the expense partly of the employers, but chiefly of the general community. But such action generally diminishes the number of skilled workers and in this and other ways takes more in the aggregate from the real wages of workers outside, than it adds to those of workers inside: and thus on the balance it lowers average wages.