Report Of The Industrial Commission On Prison Labor

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Download or read book Report of the Industrial Commission on Prison Labor, Vol. 3 written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-04 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Report of the Industrial Commission on Prison Labor, Vol. 3: Prepared in Conformity With Act of Congress Approved June 18, 1898 To the Senate and House of Representatives, Fifty-sixth Congress: The Industrial Commission established by act of Congress of June 18, 1898, have the honor to submit this report of the results of our investigations into the employment of the inmates of the penal, reformatory, and eleemosynary institutions of the different States and Territories, and the competition of such labor with free labor. The sections of the law creating the commission under which we have acted in the preparation of this report are as follows: "Sec. 2. That it shall be the duty of this commission to investigate questions pertaining to immigration, to labor, to agriculture, and manufacturing, and to business, and to report to Congress and to suggest such legislation as it may deem best on these subjects. "Sec. 3. That it shall furnish such information and suggest such laws as may be made a basis for uniform legislation by the various States of the Union, in order to harmonize conflicting interests and to be equitable to the laborer, the employer, the producer, and the consumer." The investigation of the employment of the prison population has extended into all of the States and Territories. The systems under which prisoners are employed and the conditions of such employment prevailing in each State are presented with recommendations for such changes as are considered necessary to improve the conditions and lessen the competition with free labor. The opinions and recommendations of the various committees, commissions, bureaus, and specialists who have investigated and reported on the subject of prison labor have been consulted and their conclusions in regard to the desirable and undesirable features of the different systems of employment are presented. From these sources the commission draws certain conclusions. In addition, testimony taken before this commission, and which will mainly appear in a forthcoming volume on Manufactures and General Business, sustains the suggestions for legislation herein made. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.