Economic Security Act: Hearings Before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, Seventy-fourth Congress, First Session, on S. 1130, a Bill to Alleviate the Hazards of Old Age, Unemployment, Illness, and Dependency, to Establish a Social Insurance Board in the Department of Labor, to Raise Revenue, and for Other Purposes, Parts 1-11U.S. Government Printing Office, 1935 - Economic security |
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Page 230 - ... (a) If the position offered is vacant due directly to a strike, lockout, or other labor dispute; (b) if the wages, hours, or other conditions of the work offered are substantially less favorable to the individual than those prevailing for similar work in the locality...
Page 612 - Economic insecurity due to unemployment is a serious menace to the health, morals, and welfare of the people of this State. Involuntary unemployment is therefore a subject of general interest and concern which requires appropriate action by the Legislature to prevent its spread and to lighten its burden which now so often falls with crushing force upon the unemployed worker and his family.
Page 626 - An act to provide for. the establishment of a national employment system and for cooperation with the States in the promotion of such system, and for other purposes," approved June 6, 1933 (48 Stat.
Page 427 - Congress assembled to provide for the promotion of Vocational Rehabilitation of persons disabled in industry or otherwise and their return to Civil Employment, Approved June 2, 1920.
Page 485 - ... that no money shall be paid out under this Act to any State or Territory for the support and maintenance of a college where a distinction of race or color is made in the admission of students, but the establishment and maintenance of such colleges separately for white and colored students...
Page 595 - As a guide to the interpretation and application of this act, the public policy of this state is declared to be as follows: Economic insecurity due to unemployment is a serious menace to the health, morals, and welfare of the people of this state.
Page 487 - July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and also in which an educational institution of like character has been established, or may be hereafter established, and is now aided by such State from its own revenue, for the education of colored students in agriculture and the mechanic...
Page 607 - ... because of their vocation, employment, or affiliations, and of such members representing the general public as the commission may designate.
Page 474 - As used in this section, the term "seasonal industry" means an occupation or industry in which, because of the seasonal nature thereof it is customary to operate only during a regularly recurring period or periods of less than forty weeks.
Page 603 - Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Act, no work shall be deemed suitable and benefits shall not be denied under this Act to any otherwise eligible...