Building Codes
Cry Wolf Quotes
We have laws that in a crisis we find are no laws and we have enforcement that when the hour of trial comes we find is no enforcement.
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Rabbi Stephen Wise, 1911
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
I do not believe in legislation so radical that it means an attack on the valuation of real estate or driving out of our state manufacturing concerns or other large business enterprises.
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Governor Martin Glynn (D) sides with the business interests, signaling the Factory Investigating Commission’s declining power.
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.
