The Hosiery Industry: Report on the Cost of Production of Hosiery in the United States

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1915 - 258 páginas
 

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Página 226 - Act, thirty per centum ad valorem. 318. Stockings, hose and half-hose, selvedged, fashioned, narrowed, or shaped wholly or in part by knitting machines or frames, or knit by hand...
Página 24 - He shall also make special reports on particular subjects whenever required to do so by the President or either house of Congress, or when he shall think the subject in his charge requires it.
Página 24 - ... cost, of such articles of production, including the wages paid in such industries per day, week, month, or year, or by the piece ; and hours employed per day ; and the profits of manufacturers and producers of such articles; and the comparative cost of living, and the kind of living; what articles are controlled by trusts or other combinations of capital, business operations, or labor, and what effect said trusts, or other combinations of capital, business operations, or labor have on production...
Página 24 - June thirteenth, eighteen hundred and eightyeight, that established the same, which especially charged it "to ascertain, at as early a date as possible, and whenever industrial changes shall make it essential, the cost of producing articles at the time dutiable in the United States, in leading countries where such articles are produced, by fully specified units of production, and under a classification showing the different elements of cost, or approximate cost, of such articles of production, including...
Página 24 - ... fully specified units of production, and under a classification showing the different elements of cost or approximate cost of such articles of production, including the wages paid in such industries per day, week, month, or year, or by the piece, and hours employed per day, and the profits of the manufacturers and producers of such articles, and the comparative cost of living and the kind of living.
Página 206 - ... came within specified classification limits. The working time is the hours on duty, including intervals of waiting for work. The full-time hours per week and the relatives based thereon do not in any way indicate the extent of unemployment. Employees may work overtime, broken time, or be laid off, or a temporary reduction may be made in working hours without such change affecting the full-time hours per week as presented in this bulletin.
Página 29 - I am not going to object to having them put in again. (The report above referred to is as follows:) DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, BUREAU OF FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC COMMERCE, Washington, May 29, 1929.
Página 7 - I beg to submit herewith a report on the cost of production of hosiery, which is the second of a series of reports to be issued by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce regarding the cost of production in different branches of the clothing industry. This investigation was undertaken in accordance with the act of Congress approved August 23, 1912. In addition to...

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