Building Codes
Cry Wolf Quotes
That same threat was made when the child labor law was passed and not one of the manufacturers moved out.
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Abram I. Elkus, counsel for the Factory Investigating Commission.
This bill will make it difficult for the poor baker to continue to exist, thereby making it easier for the large baker to combine with his larger brother and increase the price of bread or lower the size of the loaf, why, that is a very strong point in opposition to this bill, because the very people you are going to aid—the poor have got to be taken into consideration.
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Harold M. Phillips, of the United States Real Estate Owners Association. Only date available: 1913.
[Sprinkler systems are a] cumbersome and costly apparatus.
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Three weeks before the Triangle conflagration, the Protective League of Property Owners's counsel, Pendleton Dudley responds to Commissioner Rhinelander Waldo order that sprinklers should be installed in a number of warehouses. Only date available: March, 1911.
If you pass this bill, it will not be ten years certainly; I believe it will not be five years until practically every cellar bakery in New York city will be out of business.
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Frank P. Hill, representative of the New York Retail Bakers’ Association. Only date available: 1913.
