Excerpt from Digest of Existing Statutes of the States and Territories Affecting General Labor: Prepared Under the Direction of the Industrial CommissionThe subject covered by this report is peculiarly a matter of domestic law, and with one or two notable exceptions (such as railway labor, which may be regulated under the interstate commerce clause of the Constitution) the commission have to recommend improved legislation to the State legislatures, under section 3 of the act creating this com mission, rather than to Congress directly. Section 3 provides that the commission 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 con¿icting interests and to be equi table to the laborer, the employer, the producer, and the consumer.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.