National Colonization Bill: Hearings Before the Committee on Labor, Sixty-fourth Congress, First [and Second] Session, on H.R. 11329, a Bill to Authorize the Secretary of Labor to Cooperate with Other Departments, for the Government in Fostering, Promoting, and Developing the Welfare of the Wage Earners of the United States, by Creating New Opportunities for Permanent and Profitable Employment, and for Other Purposes. May 18, 22, 25; June 5, 15; [December 15, 20], 1916 |
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acres agricultural amount assessed BROWNE Bureau Census cent certificates of indebtedness CHAIRMAN cities colonization fund colonization project congestion Congress cooperative course Crosser bill day and wages Denmark Department of Labor Eagle River Edward Keating fact farm lands farmer Federal Germany give Government HOLDER homestead laws homesteading principle improvement charge increased industrial interest KEATING labor distribution land board land improvements land rent land values land-rent tax legislation loan LONDON MARSH ment MEYER LONDON national colonization board necessary NOLAN operation Oregon organization the hours owners ownership paid peasant permit or lease permittee or lessee person portunities POST present produce public lands public ownership purpose question railroad Secretary of Labor Secretary WILSON settlers SUMNERS tax charge taxation tenants things timber tion tracts Treasury United wage earners workers
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Page 3 - That the Secretary of the Department of Agriculture shall, from and after the passage of this act, execute or cause to be executed all laws affecting public lands heretofore or hereafter reserved under the provisions of section twenty-four of the act entitled "An act to repeal the timber-culture laws, and for other purposes...
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