THE NATIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 
labor, agriculture, homemaking, and general vocational education. 
(Referendum No. 14, submitted April 1, 1916.) 
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 
A Federal Department of Education with a Secretary in the 
President’s Cabinet should not be created. 
The National Chamber is opposed to the principle of federal aid 
to education in the states on the basis of the states appropriating 
sums equal to those given by the federal government. (Referendum 
No. 40, submitted December 26, 1922.) 
Scaoorn Lanps IN WEST 
The federal government had a very beneficent policy in pro- 
viding for states in the West as they were created an endowment 
for school purposes from the public domain. The value of this 
endowment has been impaired through questions which have been 
raised, and which may continue to be raised indefinitely by the 
federal government itself, as to the title of lands which were granted. 
Congress should at once enact legislation which will give complete 
and final effect to its original intention. It is not in the public 
interest that title in these lands should continue to be uncertain. 
(Resolution, Fourteenth Annual Meeting, 1926.) 
EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS* 
INDUSTRIAL EFFICENCY 
Whereas, No legislative enactment should have as its purpose 
interference with the development of industrial efficiency; and 
Whereas, No legislation should infringe upon those high prin- 
ciples of American life which pledge to every American a right to 
obtain reward for merit because of superior ability, and no legisla- 
tion should have as its result the impairment of individual ambition 
by leveling and restricting the rates of compensation; and 
Whereas, Limitations upon the expenditure of appropriations 
may be so framed as to have the effect of general legislation in their 
enunciation of a policy of government; and 
* See also: Coal Industry. Transportation. 
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