New York State Factory Investigating Commission Correspondence

Chronological within record type: letters and memoranda--rough chronological order; telegrams--chronological order.

These are incoming and outgoing letters, memoranda, and telegrams regarding the Commission's administrative activities, plans for and methodology of investigations, and proposed solutions to the problems under investigation. Correspondents include government agencies, businessmen and organizations, employee and civic groups, and various subject experts.

Correspondence concerned: proposed bills regarding fire prevention and fire exits; minimizing the number of inspections necessary for buildings; Labor Law violations reported by field agents; practicability and methods of determining workers' "real earning capacity," i.e. value added to the product by their labor; suggestions on industries and issues the commission should or should not investigate; cover letters for reports, printed items, or other materials sent to the commission from federal, state, and municipal agencies throughout the country; requests for hearing transcripts, reports, and other information issued by the commission from libraries, unions, employers' associations, citizens' groups, scholars, and others, often concerning the proposed recodification of the Labor Law; and opinions of proprietors in states with minimum wage laws on the value of such laws and their effect on business and employees.

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