W. Va. Code § 15-2-23
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§15-2-23. Duties of superintendent as to statistics, aliens and labor conditions.
Official statutory text
The superintendent of the department of public safety is authorized from time to time to collect statistics and distribute information throughout the state, and in this to cooperate with the state superintendent of public schools and other educational agencies of the state, to secure the naturalization and Americanization of all foreign-born inhabitants; to employ all agencies in his power to secure a harmonious feeling and understanding between the employers of labor and their employees; and to secure this end he may call upon the educational and other state institutions for public speakers, and is authorized to hold public meetings at any point in the state where, in his judgment, such meetings will be of advantage to carry out the spirit of this law.
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