Annual ReportU.S. Government Printing Office, 1916 - Children |
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African black aliens aliens admitted appeals applications for admission arrested arrived Bohemian and Moravian British North America British West Indies bulletins Bureau of Immigration Bureau of Labor Canadian cent certificates Children's Bureau Chinese citizens City classes clerks Commissioner conference contract laborers cooperation courts Cuban debarred Department of Labor distribution district Division of Information East Indian Ellis Island employees employment ended June 30 entry farm Federal fiscal year ended German Empire Government Grand total habeas corpus Hawaii immi Immigration Service immigration station increase industry inspector investigations Italian north Japanese Labor Statistics Magyar makers Male ment Mexican miscellaneous Montenegrin Nonlaborers occupation organizations Pacific Islander passports pending persons petitions Philippine Islands ports prostitution public charges purpose races residence Russian Empire Russniak Ruthenian Ruthenian Russniak seamen Secretary of Labor secure Slovak Slovenian stowaways strike TABLE tion total number United wage earners warrants West Indies women workers York
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Page 271 - The purpose of the Department of 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 268 - Territories, and said division shall gather from all available sources useful information regarding the resources, products, and physical characteristics of each State and Territory, and shall publish such information in different languages and distribute the publications among all admitted aliens who may ask for such information at the immigrant stations of the United States and to such other persons as may desire the same.
Page 9 - That the Secretary of Labor shall have power 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 280 - It shall organize by the election of a president, vice-president, treasurer and secretary, who shall hold their offices for one year, from the date of their election, or until their successors are elected and qualified. It shall employ such superintendents, speakers and clerks as may be deemed proper for organizing and conducting the work of the Illinois Farmers' Institute, and provide for their compensation by the rules of the Board of Directors.
Page 288 - All regulations made under this Act shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament as soon as may be...
Page 290 - No such licensed person shall publish or cause to be published any false or fraudulent notice or advertisement, or give any false information, or make any false promise...
Page 60 - ... injury received in the course of such employment, leaving a widow, or a child or children under sixteen years of age, or a dependent parent, such widow and child or children and dependent parent shall be entitled to receive, in such portions and under such regulations as the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may prescribe, the same amount, for the remainder of the said year, that said artisan or laborer would be entitled to receive as pay if such employee were alive and continued to be employed...
Page 288 - House, resolve that such rules, or any of them, ought to be annulled, the same shall, after the date of such resolution, be of no effect, without prejudice to the validity of anything done in the meantime under such rules or rule, or to the making of any new rules or rule.
Page 60 - August first, nineteen hundred and eight, any person employed by the United States as an artisan or laborer in any of its manufacturing establishments, arsenals, or navy yards, or in the construction of river and harbor or fortification work or in hazardous employment on construction work in the reclamation of arid lands or the management and control of the same, or in hazardous employment under the Isthmian Canal Commission...
Page 267 - 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.