To employ convict labor for the production of war supplies
Subtitle: Hearing before the Committee on Labor, House of Representatives, 65th Congress, 2d session on H.R. 7353. February 1, 1918
Publisher: Gov't Printing Office
Published: 1918
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Notes: "A bill to employ convict labor for the production of war supplies and to authorize their purchase by the Federal Government; to regulate the compensation and hoursof labor and fix standards; to prohibit the purchase of war supplies manufactured by convicts under private contract; to limit the effect of interstate commerce between the States in goods, wares, and merchandise wholly or in part manufactured, mined, or produced by convict labor or in any prison or reformatory; and to equip the United States penitentiaries at Atlanta, Ga., Leavenworth, Kans., and McNeill Island, Wash., and the United States Army prison and disciplinary barracks, and the United States Naval prison, for the manufacture of supplies for the use of the government, for the compensation of the prisoners for their labor, and for other purposes."

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