Reports of the Department of Commerce and LaborU.S. Government Printing Office, 1909 - Labor |
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... establishing a system for the encouragement of immigration . Although this source of national wealth and strength is again flowing with greater freedom than for several years before the insurrection occurred , there is still a greater ...
... establishing a system for the encouragement of immigration . Although this source of national wealth and strength is again flowing with greater freedom than for several years before the insurrection occurred , there is still a greater ...
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... established . I think it can also be stated as a fact that the immigrant laborer as a class usually finds employment ... establishing closer relations , and in promoting the peace of the world . Charles Sumner , in his " Prophetic Voices ...
... established . I think it can also be stated as a fact that the immigrant laborer as a class usually finds employment ... establishing closer relations , and in promoting the peace of the world . Charles Sumner , in his " Prophetic Voices ...
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... established a new class of excludable persons , which class frequently includes aliens coming to this country contrary to the spirit of the law as it was previously enacted , by placing upon those whose passage is paid by others the ...
... established a new class of excludable persons , which class frequently includes aliens coming to this country contrary to the spirit of the law as it was previously enacted , by placing upon those whose passage is paid by others the ...
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... established in each of the other contracting states . In administering the law the Department is frequently ... establish therein a thoroughly reliable laboring element , it is per- haps necessary that special measures or special ...
... established in each of the other contracting states . In administering the law the Department is frequently ... establish therein a thoroughly reliable laboring element , it is per- haps necessary that special measures or special ...
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... establishing grade differences for future contracts , " a technical ques- tion of interest chiefly to those concerned in the cotton business , but involving matters of great importance to that business . A few weeks later , on May 29 ...
... establishing grade differences for future contracts , " a technical ques- tion of interest chiefly to those concerned in the cotton business , but involving matters of great importance to that business . A few weeks later , on May 29 ...
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Page 305 - The Bureau of Labor Statistics is charged with the duty of acquiring and diffusing among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with labor in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and especially upon its relations to capital, the hours of labor, the earnings of laboring men and women, and the means of promoting their material, social, intellectual, and moral prosperity.
Page 289 - The said Commissioner shall have power and authority to make, under the direction and control of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor...
Page 14 - ... /That whenever the President shall be satisfied that passports issued by any foreign government to its citizens to go to any country other than the United States or to any insular possession of the United States or to the Canal Zone are being used for the purpose of enabling the holders...
Page 305 - There is hereby established at the seat of Government of the United States a Department of Agriculture, the general designs and duties of which shall be to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants.
Page 306 - Labor is also specially charged to investigate the causes of, and facts relating to, all controversies and disputes between employers and employees as they may occur, and which may tend to interfere with the welfare of the people of the different States, and report thereon to Congress.
Page 305 - Labor, who is directed to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with labor, in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and especially upon its relation to capital; the hours of labor; the earnings of laboring men and women; and the means of promoting their material, social, intellectual, and moral prosperity.
Page 325 - Countries is, in a great degree, rather casual and occasional, than certain or constant. To what extent injurious interruptions of the demand for some of the staple commodities of the United States, may have been experienced from that cause, must be referred to the judgment of those who are engaged in carrying on the commerce of the country; but it may be safely affirmed, that such interruptions are at times very inconveniently felt, and that cases not...
Page 19 - ... persons who have been convicted of or admit having committed a felony or other crime or misdemeanor involving moral turpitude...
Page 306 - He shall also make special reports on particular subjects whenever required to do so by the President or either House of Congress, or when he shall think the subject in his charge requires it.
Page 307 - March 2, 1895, to publish a bulletin on the condition of labor in this and other countries, condensations of State and foreign labor reports, facts as to conditions of employment, and such other facts as may be deemed of value to the industrial interests of the United States.