To Rehabilitate and Stabilize Labor Conditions in the Textile Industry of the United States: Hearings Before a Subcommittee on H.R. 9072, Jan. 27-31, Feb. 3-6, 19361936 - 794 pages |
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... average median weekly earnings in August 1934 as compared with the previous year had decreased to a greater extent in the South than in the North . In August 1934 , the ratio of average earnings in the South to those of the previous ...
... average median weekly earnings in August 1934 as compared with the previous year had decreased to a greater extent in the South than in the North . In August 1934 , the ratio of average earnings in the South to those of the previous ...
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... average hourly wage rates have been increased to a far greater extent in the South than in the North . From July 1933 , which was precode , to August 1934 , the following percentage increases occurred in the cotton textile industry ...
... average hourly wage rates have been increased to a far greater extent in the South than in the North . From July 1933 , which was precode , to August 1934 , the following percentage increases occurred in the cotton textile industry ...
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... average northern worker . As previously stated , he does not come from an industrial background ; therefore ... average cost per thousand bags produced in the southern plant was 50.4 cents as compared with an average of 30.4 cents in the ...
... average northern worker . As previously stated , he does not come from an industrial background ; therefore ... average cost per thousand bags produced in the southern plant was 50.4 cents as compared with an average of 30.4 cents in the ...
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... Average ( median ) hourly earnings in cotton textiles , 1933–34 Percentage increase July 1933 August 1933 August 1934 July 1933 August 1933 North : Male . South : Female . Male . Female . to August 1934 to August 1934 Cents 28.3 Cents ...
... Average ( median ) hourly earnings in cotton textiles , 1933–34 Percentage increase July 1933 August 1933 August 1934 July 1933 August 1933 North : Male . South : Female . Male . Female . to August 1934 to August 1934 Cents 28.3 Cents ...
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... Average per operator .. Total amount paid . Average cost per M .. 1 inspector ... Cost of inspection per M. Cost per M in northern plant ......... .. Production of bags in southern factory - Oct . 10 , 1934 : 42 operators sewed ...
... Average per operator .. Total amount paid . Average cost per M .. 1 inspector ... Cost of inspection per M. Cost per M in northern plant ......... .. Production of bags in southern factory - Oct . 10 , 1934 : 42 operators sewed ...
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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 515 - employee" shall include any employee, and shall not be limited to the employees of a particular employer, unless the Act explicitly states otherwise, and shall include any individual whose work has ceased as a consequence of, or in connection with, any current labor dispute or because of any unfair labor practice, and who has not obtained any other regular and substantially equivalent 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 11 - ... no individual shall be prosecuted or subject 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, documentary or otherwise except that such individual so testifying shall not be exempt from prosecution and punishment for perjury committed in so testifying.
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 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...
Page 693 - The far-reaching result of upholding the act cannot be more plainly indicated than by pointing out that if Congress can thus regulate matters entrusted to local authority by prohibition of the movement of commodities in interstate commerce, all freedom of commerce will be at an end, and the power of the States over local matters may be eliminated, and thus our system of government be practically destroyed.