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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