A BILL
To authorize the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to investigate and report upon the industrial, social, moral, educational, and physical conditions of woman and child workers in the United States.
By Mr. GARDNER, of New Jersey.
March 30, 1906. -- Referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed.
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59th Congress,
1st Session.
In the House of Representatives.
March 30, 1906.
To authorize the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to investigate and report upon the industrial, social, moral, educational, and physical conditions of woman and child workers in the United States.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of Commerce and Labor be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to investigate and report on the industrial, social, moral, education, and physical conditions of woman and child workers in the United States wherever employed, with special reference to their age, hours of labor, term of employment, health, illiteracy, sanitary, and other conditions surrounding their occupation, and the means employed for the protection of their health, person, and morals.
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Sec. 2. That to enable the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to make this investigation be us hereby authorized to expend the sum of three hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for per diem in lieu of subsistence of special agents and employees while traveling on duty away from their homes and outside of the District of columbia, at a rate not to exceed three dollars per day and for their transportation, and for the employment of experts and temporary assistants, and for the purchase of materials necessary for said report; and for the purposes of this Act the Secretary of Commerce and Labor is hereby directed to utilize, in so far as they may be adequate, the forces of the Bureau of Labor and of the Bureau of the Census.
Sec. 3. That this Act shall take effect immediately.
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