The History and Problems of Organized LaborD. C. Heath, 1920 - 559 psl. |
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American Federation amount apprentices arbitration associations benefits boycott Bulletin Bureau of Labor capital cause cent child labor closed shop coal collective bargaining competition coöperative court decade declared demand economic efficiency eight-hour day employed employment England establishment factory system favor Federation of Labor force History immigration important increase indentured servants individual industrial union interest Knights of Labor Labor Legislation labor movement labor organizations Labor Problems labor unions leaders machine machinery manufacturing membership ment methods minimum wage national body National Civic Federation organized labor output paid party period political practically present production profit sharing railway reduced Report skilled social society standard of living strike sweat-shop sympathetic strike tion trade unions unionists United unskilled wage earners wage system women workers workingmen workmen York
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188 psl. - But there can be found running through our legal literature many remarkable statements that an act perfectly lawful when done by one person becomes by some sort of legerdemain criminal when done by two or more persons actIng in concert, and this upon the theory that the concerted action amounts to a conspiracy. But with this doctrine we do not agree. If an individual Is clothed with a right when acting alone, he does not lose such right merely by acting with others, each of whom Is clothed with the...
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360 psl. - I could not pronounce it unwarranted if Congress should decide that to foster a strong union was for the best interest, not only of the men, but of the railroads and the country at large.
359 psl. - ... employment on one side to accept the services of the employee and a general agreement on the other side to render services to the employer — no term being fixed for the continuance of the employment — Congress could not, consistently with the Fifth Amendment, make it a crime against the United States to discharge the employee because of his being a member of a labor organization.
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