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Commentary
Cry Wolf Quotes
They offered dire warning of plant closings, job losses, price increases and massive economic dislocation…One year later not one of the doomsday predictions has proven accurate.
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The New York Times calls out industry a year after OSHA's Vinyl Chloride standard is promulgated, in an article entitled “Did Industry Cry Wolf?”
Contrary to the predictions of the canners, the next year there was no shortage of canned vegetables or fruits.
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George Whitney Martin, from his biography of Frances Perkins. Date not available.
I can’t see what all this talk is about. How is it wrong for the State to intervene with regard to the working conditions of people who work in the factories and mills. I don’t see what they mean. What did we set up the government for?
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Al Smith (D), future governor of New York and Factory vice chairman of the Factory Investigating Commission. Date not available.
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
