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17 Harvard Law 92 Conn Am.Dec Bausbach Berry Building Trades Council closed shop Cohn and Roth Combination Act Combination Law common law conspiracy constitutes proper motive Craig Cummings DeMinico Dhuy discharge employer England Federation of Labor Garment Workers Harvard Law Review Haverhill Strand Theatre held lawful industries injury interference Jetton-Dekle Lumber join the union Journeyman Stonecutters jurisdiction Labor Unions Law of Labor Law Review 511 LAWFUL PURPOSES legality legislation malicious Mason Builders Assn Mass Massachusetts strike Modern Law Monthly Labor Review National Fireproofing National Protective Assn non-union opinion Piano Workers Union Pickett public policy purpose of injuring question refuse Reif right of association right of workmen Roth Electric Secure the Employment Strand Theatre Inc strikes and lockouts STRIKES FOR LAWFUL Strikes to Secure Supra tion Trade combinations trade competition trade dispute Trade Unions University of California unlawful nor opposed upbuilding or strengthening Vegelan wages Walsh workingmen
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Page 9 - All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights; among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties; that of acquiring, possessing, and protecting property; in fine, that of seeking and obtaining their safety and happiness.
Page 12 - It is not the duty of one man to work for another unless he has agreed to, and if he has so agreed, but for no fixed period, either may end the contract whenever he chooses. The one may work or refuse to work at will, and the other may hire or discharge at will. The terms of employment are subject to mutual agreement, without let or hindrance from any one. If the terms do not suit, or the employer does not please, the right to quit is absolute, and no one may demand a reason therefor.
Page 7 - trade dispute" means any dispute between employers and workmen, or between workmen and workmen, which is connected with the employment or non-employment, or the terms of the employment, or with the conditions of labour, of any person...
Page 30 - Malicious motives, make a bad act worse, but they cannot make that a wrong which in its own essence is lawful.
Page 27 - An association of individuals may determine that its members shall not work for specified employers of labor. The question ever is as to its purpose in reaching such determination. If the determination is reached in good faith for the purpose of bettering the condition of its members and not through malice or otherwise to injure an employer, the fact that such action may result in incidental injury to the employer does not constitute a justification for issuing an injunction against enforcing such...
Page 21 - I think it lawful for a body of workmen to try by combination to get more than they now are getting, although they do it at the expense of their fellows, and to that end to strengthen their union by the boycott and the strike.
Page 18 - To organize for the purpose of securing improvement in the terms and conditions of labor, and to quit work and to threaten to quit work as means of compelling or attempting to compel employers to accede to their demands for better terms and conditions, are rights of workmen so well and so thoroughly established in the law (Thomas r.
Page 7 - 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 7 - ... trade dispute" means any dispute between employers and workmen, or between workmen and workmen, which is connected with the employment or non-employment, or the terms of the employment, or with the conditions of labour, of any person, and the expression "workmen...
Page 13 - ... limitation on what acts a labor union can legally do. That is the increase of power which a combination of citizens has over the individual citizen. Take for example the power of a labor union to compel by a strike compliance with its demands. Speaking generally a strike to be successful means not only coercion and compulsion but coercion and compulsion which, for practical purposes, are irresistible. A successful strike by laborers means, in many if not in most cases, that for practical purposes...