Immigration and Labor: Hearings ...on H.R. 7826 and H.R. 11730 |
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... labor ? Mr. TWYEFFORT . We are skilled labor . Mr. WILSON . Are there any of these business organizations within your knowled , that have a deficit of what they call common labor ? Mr. TWYEFFORT . Perhaps that would not apply to our ...
... labor ? Mr. TWYEFFORT . We are skilled labor . Mr. WILSON . Are there any of these business organizations within your knowled , that have a deficit of what they call common labor ? Mr. TWYEFFORT . Perhaps that would not apply to our ...
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... labor , whether it be skilled or common ; or if the tailoring industry has a shortage of a certain kind of labor , whether skilled or ordinary , then you propose to have a law so that tha can be taken to the Secretary of Labor and he ...
... labor , whether it be skilled or common ; or if the tailoring industry has a shortage of a certain kind of labor , whether skilled or ordinary , then you propose to have a law so that tha can be taken to the Secretary of Labor and he ...
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... common labor . The CHAIRMAN . What do you mean by " practically " ; do you mean that it is run entirely on an 8 - hour basis ? Mr. PATTERSON . All of the skilled men- hour day . The CHAIRMAN ... common labor IMMIGRATION AND , LABOR . 253.
... common labor . The CHAIRMAN . What do you mean by " practically " ; do you mean that it is run entirely on an 8 - hour basis ? Mr. PATTERSON . All of the skilled men- hour day . The CHAIRMAN ... common labor IMMIGRATION AND , LABOR . 253.
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... common labor two or three years ago ? Mr. PATTERSON . Seventeen and one - half cents an hour for a 10 - hour day in 1914 19 cents an hour in 1914 ; numerous increases throughout the war period up to 46 cen in 1920 ; decreases down to 30 ...
... common labor two or three years ago ? Mr. PATTERSON . Seventeen and one - half cents an hour for a 10 - hour day in 1914 19 cents an hour in 1914 ; numerous increases throughout the war period up to 46 cen in 1920 ; decreases down to 30 ...
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... Labor or some agent of the Secretary , a oard maybe , could decide that this country needed a certain number now of common nd skilled laborers in the steel rolling mills ? That is your business ? Mr. PATTERSON . Yes , sir . The CHAIRMAN ...
... Labor or some agent of the Secretary , a oard maybe , could decide that this country needed a certain number now of common nd skilled laborers in the steel rolling mills ? That is your business ? Mr. PATTERSON . Yes , sir . The CHAIRMAN ...
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Page 589 - Provided further /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 to come to the continental territory of the United States to the detriment of labor conditions therein, the President...
Page 565 - States, and, where such action may be necessary, to make a written record of such evidence ; and any person to whom such an oath has been administered under the provisions of this Act who shall knowingly or...
Page 562 - alien" wherever used in this Act shall include any person not a native-born or naturalized citizen of the United States ; but this definition shall not be held to include Indians of the United States not taxed or citizens of the islands under the jurisdiction of the United States. That the term
Page 501 - That the number of aliens of any nationality who may be admitted under the immigration laws to the United States in any fiscal year shall be limited to 3 per cent of the number of foreign-born persons of such nationality resident in the United States as determined by the United States census of 1910.
Page 374 - And provided further, That the provisions of this law applicable to contract labor shall not be held to exclude professional actors, artists, lecturers, singers, ministers of any religious denomination, professors for colleges or seminaries, persons belonging to any recognized learned profession, or persons employed strictly as personal or domestic servants.
Page 565 - Certified copies of all papers, documents, certificates, and records required to be used, filed, recorded, or kept under any and all of the provisions of this act shall be admitted in evidence equally with the originals in any and all proceedings under this act and in all cases in which the originals thereof might be admissible as evidence.
Page 490 - Japanese themselves prevented any emigration to our country of their laboring people, it being distinctly understood that if there was such emigration the United States would at once pass an exclusion law. It was of course infinitely better that the Japanese should stop their own people from coming rather than that we should have to stop them; but it was necessary for us to hold this power in reserve. Unfortunately, after I left office...
Page 565 - Act, or to the various Acts relative to the compilation of the Official Register, such persons as he may deem advisable and from time to time fix, raise, or decrease their compensation. He may draw...
Page 565 - Act $100,000, or as much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended for the salaries and expenses of persons so employed and for expenses incident to such employment ; and the accounting officers of the Treasury shall pass to the credit of the proper disbursing officer expenditures from said sum without itemized account whenever the Secretary of Labor certifies that an itemized account would not be for the best interests of the Government...
Page 565 - ... an oath has been administered under the provisions of this act who shall knowingly or willfully give false evidence or swear to any false statement in any way affecting or in relation to the right of any alien to admission to the United States shall be deemed guilty of perjury and be punished as provided by section fifty-three hundred and ninety-two, United States Revised Statutes.