Hearings Before the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce of the House of Representatives, on H.R. 10840, to Provide for Investigation of Controversies Affecting Interstate Commerce, and for Other Purposes |
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Page 13 - 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 chairman of the Commission.
Page 72 - Blessed are they that have been persecuted for righteousness" sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye when men shall reproach you, and persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
Page 73 - Act and the employees of such carrier, seriously interrupting or threatening to interrupt the business of said carrier, the chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Commissioner of Labor shall, upon the request of either party to the controversy, with all practicable expedition, put themselves in communication with the parties to such controversy, and shall use their best efforts, by mediation and conciliation, to amicably settle the same...
Page 36 - 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 35 - ... 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 36 - 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 36 - ... judges of the courts of the United States. The Commission shall appoint a secretary, who shall receive an annual salary of three thousand five hundred dollars, payable in like manner.
Page 47 - I think there are several ; as, for example, salaries of Indian judges and police without respect to the 40-hour week. Commissioner BROPHY. That is correct. Mr. DWORSHAK. When that item came before the committee there was a great deal of discussion as to whether or not they would place them on a permanent, full-time status. As I understood then, the positions had been created as part-time employment for some of the Indians on the reservations, and the question arose as to whether or not those jobs,...
Page 1 - ... by reason of which controversy the transportation of the United States mails, the operations, civil or military, of the Government of the United States, or the free and regular movement of commerce among the several States...
Page 20 - SEC. 2. That whenever a controversy concerning wages, hours of labor, or conditions of employment shall arise...