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15 U.S.C. § 172 — Transfer of duties of Department of Labor; special investigations
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The duties of the Department of Labor, or Bureau of Labor, “to ascertain, at as early a date as possible, and whenever industrial changes shall make it essential, the cost of producing articles at the time dutiable in the United States, in leading countries where such articles are produced, by fully specified units of production, and under a classification showing the different elements of cost, or approximate cost, of such articles of production, including the wages paid in such industries per day, week, month, or year, or by the piece; and hours employed per day; and the profits of manufacturers and producers of such articles; and the comparative cost of living, and the kind of living; what articles are controlled by trusts or other combinations of capital, business operations, or labor, and what effect said trusts, or other combinations of capital, business operations, or labor have on production and prices”, are, as of August 23, 1912, transferred to and shall be discharged by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, and it shall be also the duty of said Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce to make such special investigation and report on particular subjects when required to do so by the President or either House of Congress.
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The duties of the Department of Labor, or Bureau of Labor, “to ascertain, at as early a date as possible, and whenever industrial changes shall make it essential, the cost of producing articles at the time dutiable in the United States, in leading countries where such articles are produced, by fully specified units of production, and under a classification showing the different elements of cost, or approximate cost, of such articles of production, including the wages paid in such industries per day, week, month, or year, or by the piece; and hours employed per day; and the profits of manufacturers and producers of such articles; and the comparative cost of living, and the kind of living; what articles are controlled by trusts or other combinations of capital, business operations, or labor, and what effect said trusts, or other combinations of capital, business operations, or labor have on production and prices”, are, as of August 23, 1912, transferred to and shall be discharged by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, and it shall be also the duty of said Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce to make such special investigation and report on particular subjects when required to do so by the President or either House of Congress.
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It shall be the province and duty of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, under the direction of the Secretary of Commerce, to foster, promote, and develop the various manufacturing industries of the United States, and markets for the same at home and abroad, domestic and foreign, by gathering, compiling, publishing, and supplying all available and useful information concerning such industries and such markets, and by such other methods and means as may be prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce or provided by law.
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A purpose of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce is the collection, arrangement, and classification of such statistical information as may be procured, showing, or tending to show, each year the condition of the manufactures, domestic trade, currency, and banks of the several States and Territories.
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Any statistical information furnished in confidence to the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce by individuals, corporations, and firms shall be held to be confidential, and shall be used only for the statistical purposes for which it is supplied. Except as provided in subchapter III of chapter 35 of title 44, the Director of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce shall not permit anyone other than the sworn employees of the Bureau to examine such individual reports, nor shall he permit any statistics of domestic commerce to be published in such manner as to reveal the identity of the individual, corporation, or firm furnishing such data.
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It shall be the duty of the officer in charge of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce to gather and collate statistics and facts relating to commerce with foreign nations and among the several States, the railroad systems of this and other countries, the construction and operation of railroads, the actual cost of such construction and operation of railroads, the actual cost of transporting freight and passengers on railroads, and on canals, rivers, and other navigable waters of the United States, the charges imposed for such transportation of freight and passengers, and the tonnage transported.
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The Director of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce shall collect, digest, and arrange, for the use of Congress, the statistics of the manufactures of the United States, their localities, sources of raw material, markets, exchanges with the producing regions of the country, transportation of products, wages, and such other conditions as are found to affect their prosperity.
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The Secretary of Commerce shall make a report to Congress on the first Monday of January in each year, containing the results of the information collected during the preceding year, by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, upon the condition of the manufactures, domestic trade, currency, and banks of the several States and Territories.
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It shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Labor Statistics to ascertain the effect of the customs laws, and the effect thereon of the state of the currency, in the United States, on the agricultural industry, especially as to its effect on mortgage indebtedness of farmers. He shall also establish a system of reports by which, at intervals of not less than two years, he can report the general condition, so far as production is concerned, of the leading industries of the country. He is also specially charged to investigate the causes of, and facts relating to, all controversies and disputes between employers and employees as they may occur, and which may tend to interfere with the welfare of the people of the different States. He shall also obtain such information upon the various subjects committed to him as he may deem desirable from different foreign nations, and what, if any, convict-made goods are imported into this country, and if so from whence.
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TITLE 15—COMMERCE AND TRADE
§§ 173, 174
Act June 25, 1936, changed name of ‘‘Supreme Court of
the District of Columbia’’ to ‘‘district court of the
United States for the District of Columbia’’.
§ 161. Alteration, amendment, or repeal
The Congress of the United States reserves the
right to alter, amend, or repeal any provision of
this chapter.
(Sept. 19, 1922, ch. 346, § 28, 42 Stat. 856.)
§ 162. Creation of China corporations restricted
No corporation for the purpose of engaging in
business within China shall be created under any
law of the United States other than this chap-
ter.
(Sept. 19, 1922, ch. 346, § 29, as added Feb. 26, 1925,
ch. 345, § 13, 43 Stat. 997.)
CHAPTER 5—STATISTICAL AND
COMMERCIAL INFORMATION
Sec.
171.
Repealed.
172.
Transfer of duties of Department of Labor;
special investigations.
173, 174.
Repealed.
175.
Additional duties of Bureau.
176.
Collection of commercial statistics.
176a.
Confidential nature of information furnished
Bureau.
176b, 177. Repealed.
178.
Collection of statistics of foreign and inter-
state commerce and transportation.
179 to 181. Repealed.
182.
Statistics of manufactures.
183.
Report of statistics.
184 to 187. Repealed.
188.
Publication of commercial information.
189, 189a. Repealed.
190.
Discussions in commercial reports of partisan
questions.
191.
Terms of measure, weight, and money in com-
mercial reports.
192 to 195. Repealed or Omitted.
196.
Payments for rent of offices in foreign coun-
tries.
197 to 198. Repealed.
§ 171. Repealed. Pub. L. 90–620, § 3, Oct. 22, 1968,
82 Stat. 1308
Section, acts Aug. 23, 1912, ch. 350, § 1, 37 Stat. 407;
Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 141, § 1, 37 Stat. 736, directed that, as of
July 12, 1912, the Bureau of Manufactures and the Bu-
reau of
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