Hearings Held Before the Special Committee on the Investigation of the American Sugar Refining Co. ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1911 |
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Page 734 - ... conclusions. — The conclusions of the report are summed up as follows: "Summarizing now the results of the international comparison it appears that the ratio of the weekly wages for certain occupations in the. United States and England and Wales, respectively, at the dates of the two inquiries is 243 to 100 in the building trades, 213 to 100 in the engineering trades, 246 to 100 in the printing trades, and 232 to 100 in all these trades together.
Page 734 - The weekly hours of labor were found to be 11 per cent shorter in the building trades in the United States than in England and Wales, 7 per cent shorter in the printing trades, but 6 per cent longer in the engineering trades, the ratio shown by all the occupations in these three trade groups together being 96 to 100. "As regards rents, the American workman pays on the whole a little more than twice as much as the English workman for the same amount of house accommodation, the actual ratio being 207...
Page 734 - 'As regards rents, the American workman pays on the whole a little more than twice as much as the English workman for the same amount of house accommodation, the actual ratio being 207 to 100; the minimum of the predominant range of rents for the United States towns as a whole exceeding by from 50 to 77 per cent the maximum of the range for towns in England and Wales for dwellings containing the same number of rooms. "The...
Page 605 - States, and an actual resident of the state of New York at the time of his...
Page 702 - That is not what I am talking about. I am talking about, for example, the Mad River, or the Naugatuck River, which are not navigable.
Page 970 - States, being an agricultural country, the industry haa nothing to fear even from the annexation of Cuba." Excessive, abnormal, and unreasonable profits have been made by promoters in refining and not by farmers in cultivating sugar beets. This is fully demonstrated by the 100 per cent dividend declared by the Union Beet Sugar Co., as reported in the San Francisco Post of June 1, 1911, and the 35 per cent dividend declared by the Michigan Sugar Co. in addition to the regular 1} per cent quarterly...
Page 711 - In connection with that I would like to call to the attention of the committee and the witnesses a letter of March 20 from Secretary Quarles to Mr.
Page 720 - Abstract of the United States issued by the Department of Commerce, shows an alarming rate at which our need for increased revenue has grown.
Page 871 - ... hearings of various congressional committees. Some of the more important hearings of recent years relative to sugar are those before the House Ways and Means Committees and the Senate Finance Committees of 1897 and 1909, the Philippine and Cuban Reciprocity Hearings of 1902-1905, and the Hearings of the Special Committee on the Investigation of the American Sugar Refining Co. and Others of 1911.
Page 1174 - Keep them hi a limited locality ? Mr. GILMORE. Yes. Mr. MADISON. And leave the field to you people that is naturally yours, as you feel ? Mr. GILMORE. Our natural field. Yes. Mr. MADISON. In other wor'ds, you feel that all east of the Mississippi River...