Industrial Relations: Final Report and Testimony, Submitted To Congress by the Commission on Industrial Relations Created by the Act of August, 23, 1912, Volume 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1916 - Industrial relations |
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accidents ACTING CHAIRMAN agree association BARNETT BECK believe BERRY BISNO 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 eight-hour day employed employers employment offices established existence fact farm Federal FINLAY foundry FREY Government HOGAN Illinois Industrial Commission interests International Typographical Union investigation legislation LEISERSON LYNCH machine machinery manufacturers matter mean ment method miners mines MITCHELL molders National Founders nonunion open shop operators organized labor parties PEABODY practically present president problem question recommend representatives result rules safety Schaffner Schaffner & Marx scientific management shops statement strike sympathetic strike thing THOMPSON tion to-day trade agreements typothetæ union VALENTINE wages Wisconsin workers workmen York agreement
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Page 91 - 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 43 - This case is decided upon an economic theory which a large part of the country does not entertain. If it were a question whether I agreed with that theory, I should desire to study it further and long before making up my mind. But I do not conceive that to be my duty, because I strongly believe that my agreement or disagreement has nothing to do with the right of a majority to embody their opinions in law.
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 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 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 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 215 - ... near a house or place where a person resides or works or carries on business or happens to be, if they so attend merely for the purpose of peacefully obtaining or communicating information, or of peacefully persuading any person to work or abstain from working'.
Page 214 - An agreement or combination by two or more persons to do or procure to be done any act in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute between employers and workmen shall not be indictable as a conspiracy if such act committed by one person would not be punishable as a crime.
Page 156 - And inasmuch as most good things are produced by labor, it follows that all such things of right belong to those whose labor has produced them. But it has so happened, in all ages of the world, that some have labored, and others have without labor enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits. This is wrong, and should not continue. To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as nearly as possible, is a worthy object of any good government.
Page 249 - ... 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.