Keating-Owen Act

(noun)

The Keating-Owen Child Labor Act of 1916 also known as Wick's Bill, was a statute enacted by the U.S. Congress which sought to address the evils of child labor by prohibiting the sale in interstate commerce of goods produced by factories that employed children under fourteen, mines that employed children younger than sixteen, and any facility where children under sixteen worked at night or more than eight hours daily. The basis for the action was the constitutional clause giving Congress the task of regulating interstate commerce.

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Examples of Keating-Owen Act in the following topics:

  • Anti-Trust Laws

    • Wilson sought to encourage competition and curb trusts by using the Federal Trade Commission to enforce the Clayton Antitrust Act.
    • For instance, the 1916 Federal Farm Loan Act provided for issuance of low-cost, long term mortgages to farmers, and the Adamson Act imposed an eight-hour workday in the railroad industry (prompted by the 1916 summer strike by railroad employees).
    • Wilson also attempted to curtail child labor with the Keating-Owen Act.
    • The Federal Trade Commission effectively restricted unfair trade practices and enforced the 1914 Clayton Antitrust Act.
    • Rather than the piecemeal success of Roosevelt and Taft in targeting certain trusts and monopolies in lengthy lawsuits, the Clayton Antitrust Act effectively defined unfair business practices and created a common code of sanctioned business activity.

  • Child Labor

    • Congress to pass the Keating-Owen Act, which was signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson.
    • In 1938, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Fair Labor Standards Act, which, among other things, placed limits on many forms of child labor.

  • The Federal Reserve Act

    • President Wilson secured passage of the Federal Reserve Act in late 1913.
    • President Wilson secured passage of the Federal Reserve Act in late 1913, as an attempt to carve out a middle ground between conservative Republicans, led by Senator Nelson W.
    • The compromise, based on the Aldrich Plan but sponsored by Democratic congressmen Carter Glass and Robert Owen, allowed the private banks to control twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks and placed controlling interest in a central board to be appointed by the president with Senate approval.
    • The final Federal Reserve Act passed in December 1913, and most bankers criticized the plan for giving too much financial control to Washington, while liberal reformers claimed that it allowed bankers to maintain too much power.
    • Despite the fact that the Act intended to diminish the influence of the New York banks, the New York branch continued to dominate the Federal Reserve until the New Deal reorganized and strengthened the Federal Reserve in the 1930s.

  • Norris–La Guardia Act

    • The Norris–LaGuardia Act removed certain legal and judicial barriers against the activities of organized labor in the United States.
    • Sanitary Grocery Co., in which, in an opinion authored by Justice Owen Roberts, the Court held that the act meant to prohibit employers from proscribing the peaceful dissemination of information concerning the terms and conditions of employment by those involved in an active labor dispute, even when such dissemination occurs on employer property.
    • The Act stated that yellow-dog contracts were unenforceable in federal court.
    • Section 13A of the act was fully applied by the Supreme Court of the United States in New Negro Alliance v.
    • LaGuardia were the chief sponsors of the Act.

  • Wilsonian Progressivism

    • Included among these were the Federal Reserve Act, Federal Trade Commission Act, the Clayton Antitrust Act, and the Federal Farm Loan Act.
    • Wilson's tariff reform was largely achieved through the passage of the Underwood Tariff Act of 1913.
    • Contemporaries considered the Revenue Act a political triumph for Wilson.
    • The 1913 Act established the lowest rates since the Walker Tariff of 1857.
    • The compromise, based on the Aldrich Plan but sponsored by Democratic congressmen Carter Glass and Robert Owen, allowed the private banks to control twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks and placed controlling interest in a central board to be appointed by the president with Senate approval.

  • Extremely Halophilic Archaea

    • Halophiles thrive in places such as the Great Salt Lake , Owens Lake in California, evaporation ponds, and the Dead Sea - places that provide an inhospitable environment to most lifeforms.
    • In the compatible solute adaptation, little or no adjustment is required of intracellular macromolecules – in fact, the compatible solutes often act as general stress protectants as well as osmoprotectants.

  • Court Packing

    • Flagship First New Deal programs like the Agricultural Adjustment Act and the National Industrial Recovery Act as well as a number of smaller, less expansive legislative proposals were deemed either entirely or partially unconstitutional.
    • In 1937, the Court upheld the constitutionality of the National Labor Relations Act by changing its earlier interpretation of to what extent Congress could interfere in interstate commerce.
    • Parrish, a decision reached after Republican justice Owen Josephus Roberts unexpectedly supported the legislation.

  • 10 reasons for a business to become sustainable

    • ‘We felt it was better to be in the formative stages of legislation,' said Jim Owens, who was then the CEO and Chairman of Caterpillar, ‘[otherwise we] could cost [ourselves] out of the market. ' By banding together to avoid a patchwork of costly and conflicting regional regulations, far-sighted CEOs are trying to work with lawmakers to set goals and targets that allow businesses time to make changes and implement solutions that will improve the environment and energy efficiency, protect the economy and national trade, and deliver a one–two punch to waste-filled competitors and products.
    • The longer a business takes to act the higher the cost of change and the further behind it can fall in terms of profitability, innovation and market share.