Building Codes
Cry Wolf Quotes
Excited persons rarely accomplish anything…No new laws are needed.
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The New York Times tended to be very pro-business during this period. After the fire, but before the launch of the Factory Investigating Commission. Only date available: 1911.
You must relieve [New York's] real estate from the terrible yolk of oppression which has been throttling it for some years past…
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Charles F. Noyes, president of the Charles F. Noyes (Realty) Company, on the Factory Investigating Commission ’s new laws.
[These changes in the fire code would lead to] the wiping out of industry in this state.
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A spokesman for the Associated Industries of New York. Only date available: 1913.
Notwithstanding all the talk of a probable exodus of manufacturing interests the commission has not found a single case of a manufacturer intending to leave the State because of the enforcement of the factory laws.
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Factory Investigating Commission
