[PUBLIC RESOLUTION-No. 43-73D CONGRESS] [S.J.Res. 131] JOINT RESOLUTION Providing for membership of the United States in the International Labor Organ ization. Whereas progress toward the solution of the problems of international competition in industry can be made through international action concerning the welfare of wage earners; and Whereas the failure of a nation to establish humane conditions of labor is an obstacle in the way of other nations which desire to maintain and improve the conditions in their own countries; and Whereas the United States early recognized the desirability of international cooperation in matters pertaining to labor and took part in 1900 in establishing, and for many years thereafter supported, the International Association for Labor Legislation; and Whereas the International Labor Organization has advanced the welfare of labor throughout the world through studies, recommendations, conferences, and conventions concerning conditions of labor; and Whereas other nations have joined the International Labor Organization without being members of the League of Nations; and Whereas special provision has been made in the constitution of the International Labor Organization by which membership of the United States would not impose or be deemed to impose any obligation or agreement upon the United States to accept the proposals of that body as involving anything more than recommendations for its consideration: Therefore be it Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President is hereby authorized to accept membership for the Government of the United States of America in the International Labor Organization, which, through its general conference of representatives of its members and through its International Labor Office, collects information concerning labor throughout the world and prepares international conventions for the consideration of member governments with a view to improving conditions of labor. SEC. 2. That in accepting such membership the President shall assume on behalf of the United States no obligation under the covenant of the League of Nations. Approved, June 19, 1934. (294) [S. 2689] AN ACT To authorize the Department of Labor to make special statistical studies upon payment of the cost thereof, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Department of Labor be, and hereby is, authorized, within the discretion of the Secretary of Labor, upon the written request of any person, to make special statistical studies relating to employment, hours of work, wages, and other conditions of employment; to prepare from its records special statistical compilations; and to furnish transcripts of its studies, tables, and other records, upon the payment of the actual cost of such work by the person requesting it. SEC. 2. All moneys hereinafter received by the Department of Labor in payment of the cost of such work shall be deposited to the credit of the appropriation of that bureau, service, office, division, or other agency of the Department of Labor which supervised such work, and may be used, in the discretion of the Secretary of Labor, and notwithstanding any other provision of law, for the ordinary expenses of such agency and/or to secure the special services of persons who are neither officers nor employees of the United States. SEC. 3. The Secretary of Labor shall prescribe rules and regulations for the enforcement of this Act; and the Secretary of Labor shall make a report to Congress, at the beginning of each regular session, giving a detailed statement showing (1) the name of every person for whom work has been performed under the authority of this statute, (2) the nature of the services rendered to him, (3) the price charged for these services by the Department of Labor, and (4) the manner in which the moneys received were deposited or used. SEC. 4. This Act shall cease to be effective one year after the date of its enactment. Approved, April 13, 1934. [PUBLIC-No. 35-76TH CONGRESS] [CHAPTER 71-1ST SESSION] [S. 2021] AN ACT To authorize the Department of Labor to continue to make special statistical studies upon payment of the cost thereof, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the authorization contained in the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the Department of Labor to make special statistical studies upon the payment of the cost thereof, and for other purposes", approved April 13, 1934 (48 Stat. 582), as amended, is hereby extended without limitation as to time. Approved, April 15, 1939. [PUBLIC-No. 34-74TH CONGRESS] [S. 857] AN ACT To authorize the Department of Labor to continue to make special statistical studies upon payment of the cost thereof, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the Department of Labor to make special statistical studies upon payment of the cost thereof, and for other purposes" (Seventy-third Congress, ch. 118, 48 Stat. 582), and the authority therein conferred shall be, and hereby are, extended until April 13, 1937. Approved, April 11, 1935. [PUBLIC NO. 149-75TH CONGRESS] [S. 1967] AN ACT To authorize the Department of Labor to continue to make special statistical studies upon payment of the cost thereof, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the Department of Labor to make special statistical studies upon payment of the cost thereof, and for other purposes", approved April 13, 1934 (48 Stat. 582), as amended by the Act approved April 11, 1935 (49 Stat. 154), and the authority therein conferred shall be, and hereby is, extended until April 13, 1939. Approved, June 15, 1937. (206) [NOTE. On the 12th day of April 1937, the Supreme Court of the United States held this act to be constitutional. (Washington, Virginia & Maryland Coach Co. v. National Labor Relations Board.)] [PUBLIC-No. 198-74TH CONGRESS] (S. 1958] AN ACT To diminish the causes of labor disputes burdening or obstructing interstate and foreign commerce, to create a National Labor Relations Board, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, FINDINGS AND POLICY SECTION 1. The denial by employers of the right of employees to organize and the refusal by employers to accept the procedure of collective bargaining lead to strikes and other forms of industrial strife or unrest, which have the intent or the necessary effect of burdening or obstructing commerce by (a) impairing the efficiency, safety, or operation of the instrumentalities of commerce; (b) occurring in the current of commerce; (c) materially affecting, restraining, or controlling the flow of raw materials or manufactured or processed goods from or into the channels of commerce, or the prices of such materials or goods in commerce; or (d) causing diminution of employment and wages in such volume as substantially to impair or disrupt the market for goods flowing from or into the channels of commerce. The inequality of bargaining power between employees who do not possess full freedom of association or actual liberty of contract, and employers who are organized in the corporate or other forms of ownership association substantially burdens and affects the flow of commerce, and tends to aggravate recurrent business depressions, by depressing wage rates and the purchasing power of wage earners in industry and by preventing the stabilization of competitive wage rates and working conditions within and between industries. Experience has proved that protection by law of the right of employees to organize and bargain collectively safeguards commerce from injury, impairment, or interruption, and promotes the flow of commerce by removing certain recognized sources of industrial strife and unrest, by encouraging practices fundamental to the friendly adjustment of industrial disputes arising out of differences as to wages, hours, or other working conditions, and by restoring equality of bargaining power between employers and employees. It is hereby declared to be the policy of the United States to eliminate the causes of certain substantial obstructions to the free flow of commerce and to mitigate and eliminate these obstructions when they have occurred by encouraging the practice and procedure of collective bargaining and by protecting the exercise by workers of full freedom of association, self-organization, and designation of representatives of their own choosing, for the purpose of negotiating the terms and conditions of their employment or other mutual aid or protection. DEFINITIONS SEC 2. When used in this Act (1) The term “person "includes one or more individuals, partnerships, associations, corporations, legal representatives, trustees, trustees in bankruptcy, or receivers. 76 (2) The term employer" includes any person acting in the interest of an employer, directly or indirectly, but shall not include the United States, or any State or political subdivision thereof, or any person subject to the Railway Labor Act, as amended from time to time, or any labor organization (other than when acting as an employer), or anyone acting in the capacity of officer or agent of such labor organization. (3) The term "employee" shall include any employee, and shall not be limited to the employees of a particular employer, unless the Act explicitly states otherwise, and shall include any individual whose work has ceased as a consequence of, or in connection with, any current labor dispute or because of any unfair labor practice, and who has not obtained any other regular and substantially equiv alent employment, but shall not include any individual employed as an agricultural laborer, or in the domestic service of any family or person at his home, or any individual employed by his parent or spouse. (4) The term "representatives" includes any individual or labor organization. (5) The term "labor organization" means any organization of any kind, or any agency or employee representation committee or plan, in which employees participate and which exists for the purpose, in whole or in part, of dealing with employers concerning grievances, labor disputes, wages, rates of pay, hours of employment, or conditions of work. (6) The term "commerce means trade, traffic, commerce, transportation, or communication among the several States, or between the District of Columbia or any Territory of the United States and any State or other Territory, or between any foreign country and any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, or within the District of Columbia or any Territory, or between points in the same State but through any other State or any Territory or the District of Columbia or any foreign country. (7) The term "affecting commerce" means in commerce, or burdening or obstructing commerce or the free flow of commerce, or having led or tending to lead to a labor dispute burdening or obstructing commerce or the free flow of commerce. (8) The term "unfair labor practice " means any unfair labor practice listed in section 8. (9) The term "labor dispute " includes any conti-versy concerning terms, tenure or conditions of employment, or concerning the association or representation of persons in negotiating, fixing, maintaining, changing, or seeking to arrange terms or conditions of employment, regardless of whether the disputants stand in the proximate relation of employer and employee. (10) The term "National Labor Relations Board" means the National Labor Relations Board created by section 3 of this Act. (11) The term "old Board" means the National Labor Relations |