Monthly Labor Review, Volume 23U.S. Government Printing Office, 1927 - Labor Publishes in-depth articles on labor subjects, current labor statistics, information about current labor contracts, and book reviews. |
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Page 308 - 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 labour as he wills.
Page 824 - Above all, the board would impress upon its subscribers that there must be no strike or suspension of work. The main object of the board is to prevent anything of this sort, and if any strike or suspension of work...
Page 301 - ... impossible to uphold freedom of contract and the right of private property without at the same time recognizing as legitimate those inequalities of fortune that are the necessary result of the exercise of those rights.
Page 505 - ... if they have no dependents. Both classes of employees, when they secure temporary work outside, are entitled to an amount equal to 10 per cent of their outside earnings plus 90 per ..cent of their earnings with the Dennison Company, the unemployment fund being used to make up the difference between this amount and what they receive outside. Employees who are transferred inside to other • work are paid their full wages if they are time workers and 90 per cent of their six weeks
Page 234 - The International Union of United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, and Soft Drink Workers of America enters into local agreements made by a joint council of employers and representatives of the local union.
Page 304 - ... shall not be less than the prevailing rate for a day's work in the same trade or occupation in the locality...
Page 172 - Time worked on Sundays and the following holidays, namely, New Year's Day, Washington's Birthday, Decoration Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day. Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas (provided when any of the above holidays fall on Sunday, the day observed by the State, Nation, or by proclamation, shall be considered the holiday), shall be paid for ;it the regular hourly rate when the entire number of hours constituting the regular week-day assignment are worked.
Page 439 - ... consecutive hours computed continuously from the time first required to report to the final release at the end of the last run. Time shall be counted as continuous service in all cases where the interval of release from duty at any point does not exceed 1 hour. This rule applies regardless of mileage made. For calculating overtime under this rule the management may designate the initial trip.
Page 637 - In addition to any other remedies that may be possessed by the United States, and as a further method of procedure in the event of the violation of any of the terms of this proposal or any contracts made in furtherance of its terms, the company agrees that the Attorney General may, upon the request of the Secretary of War, institute proceedings in...
Page 308 - Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, an agreement between the members of a registered Trade Union shall not be void or voidable merely by reason of the fact that any of the objects of the agreement...