Thirty-hour Week Bill: Hearings ... on S. 158 and H.R. 4557 and Proposals Offered by the Secretary of Labor, April 25-28 and May 1-5, 19331933 - 991 pages |
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Page 380 - ... control any one of the great number of subjects of public interest, jurisdiction of which the States have never parted with, and which are reserved to them by the Tenth Amendment, would be to enact a detailed measure of complete regulation of the subject and enforce it by a so-called tax upon departures from it. To give such magic to the word "tax...
Page 701 - States, in which within thirty days prior to the removal of such product therefrom children under the age of fourteen years have been employed or permitted to work, or children between the ages of fourteen years and sixteen years have been employed or permitted to work more than eight hours in any day...
Page 381 - Congress' regulation of State concerns, the Court said this was not in fact regulation of interstate commerce, but rather that of State concerns and was invalid. So here the so-called tax is a penalty to coerce people of a State to act as Congress wishes them to act in respect of a matter completely the business of the State government under the Federal Constitution.
Page 466 - That unfair methods of competition in commerce are hereby declared unlawful. The commission is hereby empowered and directed to prevent persons, partnerships, or corporations, except banks, and common carriers subject to the Acts to regulate commerce, from using unfair methods of competition in commerce.
Page 705 - The rapid development and adaptation of machinery in all the activities belonging to production and transportation have brought what is commonly called over-production ; so that machinery and over-production are two causes so closely allied that it is difficult to discuss the one without taking the other into consideration.
Page 564 - Canton, Ohio. Tillamook County Creamery Association, Tillamook, Oreg. Twin City Milk Producers' Association, 2402 University Avenue, St. Paul, Minn. Twin Ports Cooperative Dairy Association, 6128 Tower Avenue, Superior, Wis. United Dairymen's Association, 635 Elliott Avenue West, Seattle, Wash. Valley of Virginia Cooperative Milk Producers' Association, Harrisonburg, Va.
Page 159 - ... (1) upon request of the President, or (2) upon resolution of either or both Houses of Congress, or (3) upon its own motion, or (4) when in the judgment of the Commission there is good and sufficient reason therefor, upon application of any interested party, [the commission] shall investigate the differences in the costs of production of any domestic article and of any like or similar foreign article".
Page 269 - Interior to contract for coal research, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That as used in this Act — (a) The term "Secretary" means the Secretary of the Interior.
Page 159 - American selling price (as defined in section 402 (g) ) of the domestic article, as it finds shown by the investigation to be necessary to equalize such differences.
Page 159 - In the course of the investigation the commission shall hold hearings and give reasonable public notice thereof, and shall afford reasonable opportunity for parties interested to be present, to produce evidence, and to be heard at such hearings.