Employment and Natural Resources: Possibilities of Making New Opportunities for Employment Through the Settlement and Development of Agricultural and Forest Lands and Other Resources |
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Page 7 - The purpose of the Department of Labor shall be to foster, promote and develop the welfare of the wage earners of the United Stales, to Improve their working conditions, and to advance their opportunities for profitable employment.
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Page 9 - Suppose the permanent annual yield from this tract is 20,000,000 board feet. This yield would provide continuous employment for more than 150 men, who with their families would make a population of about 800. About half the men would be employed in the sawmill and half in the chopping operations. The sawmill located perhaps at the entrance of the valley would support a permanent community of about 400 people. The logging operations in the woods would support another permanent community of 400. This...
Page 65 - The problem of supplies does not merely concern the amount and character of timber now standing; it concerns, as well, the production of new crops of timber by growth. I would have little concern about the amount of timber used if we were growing new stands in place of the old. We have enough non-agricultural land to produce for all time lumber in abundance for ourselves and for export. But this would require keeping our forests in a productive state after lumbering. We are not doing that. Our forests...
Page 11 - Alaska: Provided, That the coal deposits in such reserved areas may be mined under the direction of the President when, in his opinion, the mining of such coal in such reserved areas, under the direction of the President, becomes necessary, by reason of an insufficient supply of coal at a reasonable price for the requirements of Government works, construction and operation of Government railroads, for the Navy, for national protection, or for relief from monopoly or oppressive conditions.
Page 7 - A careful analysis of all available statistics shows that in our great basic industries the workers are unemployed for an average of at least one-fifth of the year, and that at all times during...
Page 65 - Accidental stands following cutting and fire are generally poor in quality and species, and of low prospective yield. We are still drawing for the most part on original sources of supply. Failing to replace these, we are steadily losing ground. We are actually using up our forests, just as we would use up a deposit of coal, when we might have been renewing them. The question of forest renewal and growth is one that can no longer be ignored. It is not only of interest to the public, but it is of vital...
Page 98 - ... 1. The settlement to become widely and favorably known as the home of one breed of dairy cattle, one breed of beef cattle, one breed of hogs, and one or two breeds of sheep. 2. The cooperation of the settlers in buying and selling. 3. The establishment at Durham or on the settlement land of a training-school in agriculture. 4. The erection in the near future of a social hall owned and paid for by settlers.
Page 69 - ... is less efficient, and the difficulties in the way of forest replacement are intensified. Failures that occur at such times often result in a transfer of lands, thereby increasing the tendency to centralization that may operate disadvantageously to the public in the long run. THE LABOR PROBLEM. Of far-reaching importance both to the industry and to the public is the problem of labor. It is the problem that is most insistently pressing, and perhaps in some aspects the most perplexing of any before...