Public Affairs Pamphlet, Issues 1-10Public Affairs Committee, Incorporated, 1936 |
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... federal government founded its Bureau of Labor and about this time set up machinery for intervening in industrial disputes affecting interstate commerce . With the return to prosperity marked by the Spanish - 4 LABOR AND THE NEW DEAL.
... federal government founded its Bureau of Labor and about this time set up machinery for intervening in industrial disputes affecting interstate commerce . With the return to prosperity marked by the Spanish - 4 LABOR AND THE NEW DEAL.
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... federal government frowned on this policy . After the war there was a business recession in 1920 , an upturn in 1921 and a prosperous period until the fall of 1929 when the great depression began . Demands then mounted for government ...
... federal government frowned on this policy . After the war there was a business recession in 1920 , an upturn in 1921 and a prosperous period until the fall of 1929 when the great depression began . Demands then mounted for government ...
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... federal government . Regional boards , agents of the National Board , assumed jurisdiction and mediation in all cases involving violation of Section 7a and in cases involving code violations if a strike was in progress or pending ...
... federal government . Regional boards , agents of the National Board , assumed jurisdiction and mediation in all cases involving violation of Section 7a and in cases involving code violations if a strike was in progress or pending ...
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... Federal Dis- trict Courts and obtained temporary orders restraining the board from holding hearings . The labor law did not contemplate allowing employers to hold up the board's work to the extent of preventing it from holding hear ...
... Federal Dis- trict Courts and obtained temporary orders restraining the board from holding hearings . The labor law did not contemplate allowing employers to hold up the board's work to the extent of preventing it from holding hear ...
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... federal " unions , one for each plant . A federal labor union consists of employees who are not under the jurisdiction of any national or international union . Affiliated 19 LABOR AND THE NEW DEAL.
... federal " unions , one for each plant . A federal labor union consists of employees who are not under the jurisdiction of any national or international union . Affiliated 19 LABOR AND THE NEW DEAL.
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Page 33 - All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives. SECTION 2. The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature.
Page 38 - States, and a Majority of all the States shall be necessary to a Choice. In every Case, after the Choice of the President, the Person having the greatest Number of Votes of the Electors shall be the Vice President. But if there should remain two or more who have equal Votes, the Senate shall chuse from them by Ballot the Vice President. The Congress may determine the Time of chusing the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States.
Page 39 - SECTION i. The judicial power of the United States shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The judges, both of the Supreme and...
Page 38 - The president shall have power to fill up all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the senate, by granting commissions which shall expire at the end of their next session. SECTION 3. He shall, from time to time, give to the congress information of the state of the Union...
Page 16 - When an Act of Congress is appropriately challenged in the courts as not conforming to the constitutional mandate, the judicial branch of the Government has only one duty—to lay the article of the Constitution which is invoked beside the statute which is challenged and to decide whether the latter squares with the former.
Page 33 - When vacancies happen in the Representation from any State, the Executive Authority thereof shall issue Writs of Election to fill such Vacancies. The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers ; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.
Page 37 - Electors appointed; and if there be more than one who have such Majority and have an equal number of Votes, then the House of Representatives shall immediately chuse by Ballot one of them for President; and if no Person have a Majority, then from the five highest on the List the said House shall in like Manner chuse the President. But in chusing the President, the Votes shall be taken by States, the Representation...
Page 15 - I am not willing that the vitality of our people be further sapped by the giving of cash, of market baskets, of a few hours of weekly work cutting grass, raking leaves or picking up papers in the public parks.
Page 29 - ... to discharge or otherwise discriminate against an employee because he has filed charges or given testimony under this Act; (5) to refuse to bargain collectively with the representatives of his employees, subject to the provisions of section 9(a).