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Definition Of Organic Act Of The Department Of Labor:


An act of law reluctantly signed by former U.
president WilliamHoward Taftin 1913 that created the Department of Labor and the Department of Commerce,dividing the former Department of Commerce and Labor. Taft was reluctant to sign the Organic Act of the Department of Labor into law because he felt that leaving the Department of Commerceand Labor as one entity would be amore efficient wayof running the two departments.Taft believed that the two departments had very similar goals, but he signed it into law onhis last day in office becausehe was certain that his successor, Woodrow Wilson, would sign the act into law anyway.

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