Industrial Relations: Final Report and TestimonyU.S. Government Printing Office, 1916 - Industrial relations |
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ACTING CHAIRMAN agree apprentices association BARNETT believe BERRY BRIGGS cent Chicago coal collective bargaining Commissioner BALLARD Commissioner COMMONS Commissioner DELANO Commissioner GARRETSON Commissioner HARRIMAN Commissioner LENNON Commissioner O'CONNELL Commissioner WEINSTOCK committee conciliation conference contract courts deal disputes EIDLITZ eight-hour day employed employers employment offices existence experience fact farm Federal FINLAY foundry FREY Government HOGAN Illinois Industrial Commission interests International Typographical Union investigation legislation LEISERSON LYNCH machine machinery manufacturers matter ment method miners mines MITCHELL molders National Founders nonunion open shop operators organized labor parties PEABODY practically present president problem question recommend representatives result rule safety Schaffner Schaffner & Marx scientific management shops statement strike STRUBLE sympathetic strike thing THOMPSON tion to-day trade agreements typothetæ umpire union VALENTINE wages Wisconsin workers workmen York agreement
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Page 214 - An act done by a person in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute shall not be actionable on the ground only that it induces some other person to break a contract of employment or that it is an interference with the trade, business, or employment of some other person, or with the right of some other person to dispose of his capital or his labor as he wills.
Page 92 - Hides any tools, clothes, or other property owned or used by such other person, or deprives him of or hinders him in the use thereof; or, "4. Watches or besets the house or other place where such other person resides, or works, or carries on business, or happens to be, or the approach to such a house or place ; or, " 5. Follows such other person with two or more other persons in a disorderly manner in or through any street or road...
Page 214 - Every person who, with a view to compel any other person to abstain from doing or to do any act which such other person has a legal right to do or abstain from doing, wrongfully and without legal authority — 1. Uses violence to or intimidates such other person or his wife or children, or injures his property; or 2.
Page 92 - ... shall, on conviction thereof by a Court of summary jurisdiction, or on indictment as hereinafter mentioned, be liable either to pay a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds, or to be imprisoned for a term not exceeding three months, with or without hard labour.
Page 184 - Labor shall be to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners of the United States, to improve their working conditions, and to advance their opportunities for profitable employment.
Page 214 - An act done in pursuance of an agreement or combination by two or more persons shall, if done in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute, not be actionable unless the act, if done without any such agreement or combination, would be actionable.
Page 184 - The Bureau of Labor Statistics is charged with the duty of acquiring and diffusing 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 relations 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.
Page 164 - That the Secretary of Labor shall have power to act as mediator and to appoint commissioners of conciliation in labor disputes whenever in his judgment the interests of industrial peace may require it to be done...
Page 239 - ... Asiatics into the United States or its insular possessions, and of the methods by which such Asiatics have gained and are gaining such admission, and shall report to Congress as speedily as possible with such recommendation as said commission may think proper to prevent such smuggling and illegal entry.
Page 64 - There must be a division not only of profits, but a division also of responsibilities. The employees must have the opportunity of participating in the decisions as to what shall be their condition and how the business shall be run.