Word: law
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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...
...Elmer Andrews takes to the White House a deficiency budget. It calls for about $800,000 to finance his division from mid-January to June 30, 1939, indicates that he will have to have about 1,500 employes and $4,000,000 a year for the enforcement of his law...
...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...
...owned or tied up with automobile companies.* At their annual convention in Chicago last week, members of the Conference heard Lawyer Berge discuss at length the theory of consent decrees as a justifiable compromise in the public interest and declare that advertising "probably cannot be dealt with under existing law and must be left for future consideration...