THE CABINET: A Labor Report

Secretary of Labor Davis in his annual report recommended:

1) That the law creating the Rail-road Labor Board be modified, as the functioning of that body tends to increase and complicate rather than diminish railway labor difficulties.

2) That the Department of Labor be given authority “to improve working conditions” (as is commanded by law) besides it present function of investigating, reporting and recommending.

3) That the Department be authorized to make a survey of industrial accidents and means of prevention.

4) That the Department be authorized to investigate the problems of the migratory worker engaged in seasonal occupations, with a view to finding other industries in which he may be employed in the slack season.

5) That the infancy and maternity act be extended to include the Philippines, Hawaii, Porto Rico.

6) That the immigration stations at New York, Boston, San Francisco, Seattle be improved.

7) That an immigration statute be enacted to select immigrants for our needs, to exclude the unfit and non-naturalizable, to register all aliens resident in this country, to deport all aliens convicted of crime.