Word: actes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Andrews is able to favor industry with such advisory opinions only by straining the Act. Nowhere does it authorize him to issue general regulations and interim interpretations to serve until the U. S. Supreme Court has spoken. This defect in the Act may be corrected by amendment when Congress convenes in January...
Supreme Court. Moreover, any worker or union may sue in "courts of competent jurisdiction" (presumably meaning either State or U. S. district courts) for: 1) the difference between wages paid and wages required by the Act; 2) an equal amount in liquidated damages; 3) costs of the litigation. Each one of a firm's employes may sue separately, running up fantastic legal costs for employers. This undoubtedly will serve as a potent incentive to compliance and a rich field for shysters...
Just now Major Fletcher's "staff" consists chiefly of the workers who come under the Act. A. F. of L. and C. I. O. have set up offices in Washington to clear complaints, take utmost advantage of the fact that organized employes are in a better position than unorganized workers to make their employers toe the line...
...Children's Bureau (of the Department of Labor) is charged with the enforcement of the Act's child labor provisions. Pleasant, fortyish Beatrice McConnell, who used to administer Pennsylvania's child labor law, has the job of seeing that some 30,000 children under 16 are no longer employed in manufacturing or mining, that those between 16 and 18 shall not be employed in hazardous occupations...
...first time since the Federal Child Labor Act was invalidated 20 years ago the bureau has an administrative job on its hands...