...formerly a division of the Patent Office, and in 1862 Congress established the "Department of Agriculture" "to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United...States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and to procure, propagate and...

...Cong1tss approved June 13, 1888. It is placed in charge of a Commissioner of Labor, who is directed to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United...capital, the hours of labor, the earnings of laboring men ana women, and the means of promoting their material, social, intellectual, and moral prosperity. He...

...are that it shall acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on the subjects connected with labor, in the most general...women, and the means of promoting their material, intellectual, and moral prosperity, made it specifically the duty of the commissioner of labor, at...

...are that it shall acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on the subjects connected with labor, in the most general...women, and the means of promoting their material, intellectual, and moral prosperity, made it specifically the duty of the commissioner of labor, at...

...Department of Labor. The general duties of the Commissioner of Labor are to acquire anddifluse amongst the people of the United States useful information...upon its relation to capital, the hours of labor, the earnirgs of laboring men and women, and the means of promoting their material, social, intellectual...

...requires it." The organic law of the Department also provides that its general design and duties shall be to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United...comprehensive sense of that word, and especially upon its relations to capital, the hours of labor, the earnings of laboring men and women, and the means of...

...Department of Labor. The Department is placed in charge of a Commissioner of Labor, whois directed to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United...information on subjects connected with labor in the most generat and comprehensive sense of that word, and especially upon its relation to capital ; the hours...

...Congress approved June 13, 1888. It is placed in charge of a Commissioner of Labor, who is directed to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected wrth labor in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and especially upon its relation...

...duties are denned by the Act, as follows: He shall collect information (upon the subject of labor, its relation to capital, the hours of labor, the earnings of laboring men and women, their educational, moral and financial condition and the best means of promoting their mental, material,...

...of a Royal Commission, " for the purpose of inquiring into and reporting upon the subject of labor, its relation to capital, the hours of labor, the earnings...and the means of promoting their material, social Accidents, apprentices, arbitration and conciliation, black-listing, child labor, condition of the...