Annual ReportU.S. Government Printing Office, 1919 - Children |
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A. L. Faulkner administration admitted American Bendheim C. T. Connell cent Chicago Chinese City clerks commissioners of conciliation committee conciliation from July conference Controversy cooperation courts D. W. Benjamin Department of Labor Director district Division of Information E. E. Greenawalt effect eight-hour day Ellis Island employees Employment Service ended June 30 F. G. Davis F. L. Feick farm Federal fiscal year ended Government Includes activities increase Islands Italian north J. A. Smyth J. V. Cunningham June 30 Labor Board labor disputes handled Lockout machinists Magyar ment Montenegrin National War Labor number of labor O. F. Nelson officers Ohio organization P. F. Gill Pacific Pacific Islander pending ports Purcell R. M. McWade rectly residence result Russniak seamen Secretary of Labor Statement showing number Street Threatened strike tion Total Unable to adjust union United States Employment vessels war labor administration War Labor Board Workmen affected
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Page 127 - Agriculture, the general designs and duties of which shall be to acquire and 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 220 - Labor shall be to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners of the United States, to improve their working conditions, and to advance their opportunities for profitable employment.
Page 228 - That all duties performed and all power and authority now possessed or exercised by the head of any executive department in and over any bureau, office, officer, board, branch, or division of the public service by this Act transferred to the Department of Commerce and Labor...
Page 463 - It shall be the duty of said division to promote a beneficial distribution of aliens admitted into the United States among the several States and Territories desiring immigration. Correspondence shall be had with the proper officials of the States and Territories, and said division shall gather from all available sources useful information regarding the resources, products, and physical characteristics of each State and Territory...
Page 275 - States or attempt to return to or to enter the United States shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment for a term of not more than five years...
Page 228 - Congress and to the President stating in detail the cases it has heard, the decisions it has rendered, the names, salaries, and duties of all employees and...
Page 228 - He has power under the law to act as mediator and to appoint commissioners of conciliation in labor disputes whenever in his judgment the interests of industrial peace may require it to be done.
Page 275 - ... overthrow by force or violence of the Government of the United States or of all forms of law...
Page 275 - ... the duty, necessity, or propriety of the unlawful assaulting or killing of any officer or officers, either of specific individuals or of officers generally, of the Government of the United States...
Page 177 - The notion that prohibition is any less prohibition when applied to things now thought evil I do not understand. But if there is any matter upon which civilized countries have agreed-— far more unanimously than they have with regard to intoxicants and some other matters over which this country is now emotionally aroused — it is the evil of premature and excessive child labor.