Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mississippi folks are going to apply this law in Mississippi, New York folks in New York," he says. Eventually every factory and business house subject to the law will be inspected once a year, either by Major Fletcher's staff or by cooperative State Labor Departments...
...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...
...This sort of service for employes is of course a talking point of which organized labor is making the most. In dealing with employers the law also gives organized labor another advantage by providing that employers having contracts with unions certified by NLRB may ignore the 44-hour week maximum so long as total hours worked under the agreements do not exceed 1,000 in 26 weeks...
...Union Boss Leon Jouhaux promptly indicated a feeling that such measures probably are today the sole means of making France strong enough to hold her ground in Europe. Cried Boss Jouhaux: "We must take steps at least as bold as those which have been taken by President Roosevelt. . . . Organized labor in France is not of course willing to pay all the costs and make all the sacrifices." This was not asked of Labor, for M. Reynaud imposed special taxes to milk French employers of greater profits they would make by running longer hours...