Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics. no. 217, 1918, Випуск 217

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1918
 

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Сторінка 109 - ... been obliged to seek charitable aid, and there was every prospect that many more would have to do so before long. And many were living in a degree of poverty and destitution which can hardly be exaggerated. Of course, not all the families visited in Pennsylvania were suffering and not all in the other states were comfortable. But looking upon the situation in each state as a whole, that in Pennsylvania presented a nightmare of suffering and destitution as compared with that in the other states....
Сторінка 42 - Provided, however, in case the final action of such board denies the right of the claimant to participate at all in such fund on the ground that the injury was self-inflicted or on the ground that the accident did not arise in the course of employment, or upon any other ground going to the basis of the claimant's right...
Сторінка 69 - The group receiving 50 ppm was terminated at the end of three months. At the end of six months, one male and one female from each of the other groups were killed. Tissues were preserved for pathological studies, and samples of lives, kidney, and femur saved for cadmium analysis. The remaining animals were killed at the end of a year. Rats which died during the experimental period were examined...
Сторінка 7 - CHAPTER II THE AIM AND METHOD OF THE INVESTIGATION The present investigation was undertaken for the purpose of developing and applying a method for studying the motivating forces, or wants, in the behavior of a number of preschool children. Diary records of the overt behavior of seven children and parents...
Сторінка 97 - ... many of these families were in the most extreme poverty, ill-fed, insufficiently clothed, suffering in the present and with no prospect of any improvement of conditions in the future. Unfortunately, this state of affairs was not confined to those who were receiving public aid. Among the others there were some in quite as acute poverty, some in which such straits were escaped only because relatives, but little better off than themselves, had joined forces with the distressed group, and others...
Сторінка 41 - ... for a period of six years from the date of the injury, or for such a part of this period as the commission may decide.
Сторінка 73 - We see people pawning their furniture; we see people using up what little savings bank accounts they have had; we see people obliged to turn in humiliation and with permanent injury to the charitable societies or to relatives and friends and other people, who have heretofore been entirely independent and self-supporting. And so I came practically to the conclusion long ago...
Сторінка 42 - ... such list and of such abstract of proof for each member of the Commission, and for the Secretary. Such original lists and such abstracts of proof shall be preserved by him and filed in his office. RULE 16 — HEARING Claims for awards will be considered on each week day not a legal holiday. Claimants may appear before the Commission either in person or by agent or attorney. If no appearance is made, the claim will be heard and disposed of upon the proof on file, if sufficient, or may be continued...
Сторінка 73 - We see consequences on the character and permanent social standing of the family which are far more serious. Of course, they are the direct result of the cutting off of the income. We see people becoming chronic dependents and begging for charitable assistance, who never would have gotten in that position except for the accident to the wageearner. We see people becoming careless who couldn't have been careless before the situation arose as the result of this accident. We see people dispossessed for...
Сторінка 73 - ... for charitable assistance, who never would have gotten in that position except for the accident to the wage-earner. We see people becoming careless who couldn't have been careless before the situation arose as the result of this accident. We see people dispossessed for the first time in their lives because of this accident, and going into the ranks of people who expect to be dispossessed whenever they move. We see people pawning their furniture; we see people using up what little savings bank...

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