Report on the Labor Laws and Labor Conditions of Foreign Countries in Relation to Strikes and Lockouts |
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Page 47 - An action against a trade union, whether of workmen or masters, or against any members or officials thereof on behalf of themselves and all other members of the trade union in respect of any tortious act alleged to have been committed by or on behalf of the trade union, shall not be entertained by any court.
Page 73 - ... and the mode, terms, and conditions of employment ; (c) the employment of children or young persons, or of any person or persons or class of persons in. any industry, or the dismissal of or refusal to employ any particular...
Page 79 - ... fixing the lowest rates for overtime and holidays and other special work, including allowances as compensation for overtime, holidays, or other special work...
Page 115 - Union, without ballot or other election, then and in such case and thereafter employers shall employ members of the union in preference to non-members, provided there are members of the union equally qualified with non-members to perform the particular work required to be done and ready and willing to undertake it...
Page 73 - The employment of children or young persons, or of any person or persons or class of persons, in any industry, or the dismissal of or refusal to employ any particular person or persons or class of persons therein...
Page 97 - The labour laws have been passed in the effort to regulate certain conditions affecting employer and employed. Their scope embraces many difficult positions into which the exigencies of modern industrial life have forced those engaged in trades and handicrafts. The general tendency of these laws is to ameliorate the position of the worker by preventing social oppression through undue influences, or through unsatisfactory conditions of sanitation. It will undoubtedly...
Page 97 - Sweating' has almost disappeared in New Zealand by the prohibition of sub-contracting in the issue of textiles to be made up into garments. The Factories Act is probably one of the most complete and perfect laws to be found on the statute book of any Colony, and is greatly appreciated by the workers, while the honest, fair-dealing employer is himself thereby protected from the unscrupulous proceedings of the piratical competitor. "The Shops and Offices Act, 1904...
Page 76 - ... sphere. If there are weak classes likely to be imposed upon, and, in the ordinary sense of the term, sweated, and to whom it is in the highest degree just that a fair living wage should be awarded, there are also strong Unions able, without the assistance of any tribunal, to win for themselves terms which rise as far above a fair living wage as those of the sweated classes fall below it. To take away from those men the weapon of the strike, and to impose upon them the compulsion of a peaceful...
Page 80 - Court in relation to an industrial dispute, (1) does any act or thing in the nature of a lock-out or striKe; or suspends or discontinues employment, or work in any industry; or...
Page 90 - What wage would suffice to meet " the normal needs of an average employee regarded as a human being living in a civilised community...