Report of Committee on Relations Between Employer and EmployeeOn the laws of the commonwealth concerning the legal relations of employer and employee, and especially concerning liability of employer for injuries received by employee, the conduct of strikes and lockouts, the authority of the courts to issue injunctions in cases of strikes, the creation of a disability or pension fund, and other like matters. |
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... plaintiff may be compelled to pay his lawyer liberally , if he is successful ; and the defendant may incur the expenses of claim agents , expert witnesses and lawyers , and also assume other expenses incidental to litigation , in ...
... plaintiff may be compelled to pay his lawyer liberally , if he is successful ; and the defendant may incur the expenses of claim agents , expert witnesses and lawyers , and also assume other expenses incidental to litigation , in ...
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... plaintiff or defendant , against the rich and the powerful . The interference of the chancellor was in- voked in many instances solely upon the ground of personal inability to obtain justice as against a powerful adversary . ” Courts of ...
... plaintiff or defendant , against the rich and the powerful . The interference of the chancellor was in- voked in many instances solely upon the ground of personal inability to obtain justice as against a powerful adversary . ” Courts of ...
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... plaintiff's bill ; and it further appearing that the plaintiff , having acted under article 14 of said agreement , " has laid off one engineer and one fireman one week at a time alternating in accordance with said article , " and that ...
... plaintiff's bill ; and it further appearing that the plaintiff , having acted under article 14 of said agreement , " has laid off one engineer and one fireman one week at a time alternating in accordance with said article , " and that ...
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... plaintiffs or to any person or persons or corporation who might become em- ployers of the plaintiffs , that such employers will suffer or are likely to suffer some loss or trouble in their business by employ- ing or continuing to employ ...
... plaintiffs or to any person or persons or corporation who might become em- ployers of the plaintiffs , that such employers will suffer or are likely to suffer some loss or trouble in their business by employ- ing or continuing to employ ...
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... plaintiffs ; or by attempting by any scheme or conspiracy among themselves or with others to interfere with and hinder the complainants in the actual per- formance of the contract referred to in the master's report as the contract for ...
... plaintiffs ; or by attempting by any scheme or conspiracy among themselves or with others to interfere with and hinder the complainants in the actual per- formance of the contract referred to in the master's report as the contract for ...
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Page 96 - If in any employment to which this act applies personal injury by accident arising out of and in the course of the employment is caused to a workman, his employer shall, subject as hereinafter mentioned, be liable to pay compensation in accordance with the first schedule to this act.
Page 68 - Persistently follows such other person about from place to place ; or 3. 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 house or place ; or 5.
Page 110 - It shall be lawful for one or more persons, acting on their own behalf or on behalf of a trade union or of an individual employer or firm in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute, to attend at or 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 97 - ... shall be served on the employer, or, if there is more than one employer, upon one of such employers. The notice may be served by delivering the same to or at the residence or place of business of the person on whom it is to be served.
Page 67 - 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 97 - Notice in respect of an injury under this Act shall give the name and address of the person injured, and shall state in ordinary language the cause of the injury and the date at which it was sustained...
Page 109 - The purposes of any trade union shall not, by reason merely that they are in restraint of trade, be deemed to be unlawful so as to render any member of such trade union liable to criminal prosecution for conspiracy or otherwise.
Page 96 - When the injury was caused by the personal negligence or wilful act of the employer or of some person for whose act or default the employer is responsible, nothing in this Act shall affect any civil liability of the employer, but in that case the workman may, at his option, either claim compensation under this Act or take proceedings independently of this Act...
Page 110 - 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 (6) Follows such other person with two or more other persons in a disorderly manner in or through any street or road...
Page 116 - One of the eternal conflicts out of which life is made up is that between the effort of every man to get the most he can for his services, and that of society, disguised under the name of capital, to get his services for the least possible return. Combination on the one side is patent and powerful. Combination on the other is the necessary and desirable counterpart, if the battle is to be carried on in a fair and equal way.