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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... force of public opinion . While it is true that the courts could hardly attempt to lay down conditions of labor and compel an employer to carry on his business under the terms laid down , or the employee to give his services against his ...
... force of public opinion . While it is true that the courts could hardly attempt to lay down conditions of labor and compel an employer to carry on his business under the terms laid down , or the employee to give his services against his ...
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... force for children under sixteen years of age . are Increase in Age of Employment . -The proposition to raise the age limit at which children shall be permitted to work in factories , workshops and mercantile establish- ments is one of ...
... force for children under sixteen years of age . are Increase in Age of Employment . -The proposition to raise the age limit at which children shall be permitted to work in factories , workshops and mercantile establish- ments is one of ...
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... force of the latter influence is strikingly seen in the experience of Lawrence . In 1902 there were in that city 1,420 male and 1,115 female children under factory inspection ; in 1903 , 731 and 718 respectively . Special inquiry shows ...
... force of the latter influence is strikingly seen in the experience of Lawrence . In 1902 there were in that city 1,420 male and 1,115 female children under factory inspection ; in 1903 , 731 and 718 respectively . Special inquiry shows ...
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... force . This view is strengthened when it is seen that a very considerable number of children now leave school before the conclusion of the grammar grade . Many children from the foreign ele- ments of our population pass into the ranks ...
... force . This view is strengthened when it is seen that a very considerable number of children now leave school before the conclusion of the grammar grade . Many children from the foreign ele- ments of our population pass into the ranks ...
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... force all children fourteen years of age to attend school , and not permit them to follow a natural impulse to become wage earners , either on their own account or for the benefit of the family when in distress ? On the other hand , is ...
... force all children fourteen years of age to attend school , and not permit them to follow a natural impulse to become wage earners , either on their own account or for the benefit of the family when in distress ? On the other hand , is ...
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Page 94 - The employer shall not be liable under this act in respect of any injury which does not disable the workman for a period of at least two weeks from earning full wages at the work at which he was employed...
Page 66 - 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 108 - 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 65 - 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 107 - 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 108 - 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 bouse or place; or (5) Follows such other person with two or more other persons in a disorderly manner In or through any street or road...
Page 94 - 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 98 - Any weekly payment may be reviewed at the request either of the employer or of the workman, and on such review may be ended, diminished, or increased, subject to the maximum above provided, and the amount of payment shall, in default of agreement, be settled by arbitration under this act...
Page 99 - Act is to be settled by arbitration, if any committee, representative of an employer and his workmen, exists with power to settle matters under this Act in the case of the employer and workmen, the matter shall, unless either party objects by notice in writing sent to the other party before the committee meet to consider...
Page 95 - ... and, if served by post shall be deemed to have been served...