Labor Department Act

The Labor Department Act, also called the Borah Act, was sponsored by Sen. William E. Borah (R) of Idaho. It was approved on 4 March 1913 (37 Stat. 736).[1]

This was the final bill signed by President William Howard Taft, separating the Bureau of Labor from the Bureau of Commerce and elevating it to a Cabinet-level agency, renaming it the Department of Labor under its 1st Secretary, Rep. William B. Wilson (D) of Pennsylvania. As a trade Unionist, Wilson resigned from Congress to accept the position which he held until 1921.

The Department of Labor included:

Congress forgot to grant the new Bureau of Labor a budget or Rep. Wilson a salary.

References

  1. Labor, United States Department of (1919). Reports of the Department of Labor. 1913[-1920]. U.S. Government Printing Office.
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