
      The general design and duties of the Bureau of Labor Statistics
    shall be to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United
    States useful information on subjects connected with labor, in the
    most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and especially
    upon its relation to capital, the hours of labor, the earnings of
    laboring men and women, and the means of promoting their material,
    social, intellectual, and moral prosperity.

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