Labour Legislation, Labour Movements, and Labour Leaders

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E.P. Dutton & Company, 1902 - 499 pagina's
 

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Pagina 17 - ... raw material, taxes on every fresh value that is added to it by the industry of man; taxes on the sauce which pampers man's appetite and the drug...
Pagina 425 - Whereas no action at law is now maintainable against a person who by his wrongful act, neglect, or default may have caused the death of another person, and it is oftentimes right and expedient that the wrongdoer in such case should be answerable in damages for the injury so caused by him...
Pagina 56 - ... if any person shall by violence to the person or property ... or by threats or intimidation, or by molesting or in any way obstructing another...
Pagina 17 - ... the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid seven per cent., into a spoon that has paid fifteen per cent., flings himself back upon his chintz bed which has paid twenty-two...
Pagina 56 - Justice, either be committed to the Common Gaol or House of Correction, there to be imprisoned only, or to be imprisoned and kept to hard Labour, for any Term not exceeding Six Calendar Months, or else shall forfeit and pay, over and above the Value of the Article or Articles so stolen, or the Amount of the Injury done, such Sum of Money, not exceeding Twenty Pounds, as to the Justice shall seem meet...
Pagina 52 - ... the rate of wages, or to lessen or alter the hours of working, or to decrease or alter the quantity of work, or to regulate the mode of carrying on any manufacture, trade or business, or the management thereof...
Pagina 65 - We have injured no man's reputation, character, person, or property. We were meeting together to preserve ourselves, our wives, and our children, from utter degradation and starvation.
Pagina 40 - ... journeymen, workmen, or other persons who shall enter into any combination to obtain an advance, or to fix the rate of wages, or to lessen or alter the hours or duration of the time of...
Pagina 50 - That it is absolutely necessary, when repealing the Combination Laws, to enact such a law as may efficiently and by summary process punish either workmen or masters who, by threats, intimidation, or acts of violence, should interfere with that perfect freedom which ought to be allowed to each party, of employing his labour or capital in the manner he may deem most advantageous.
Pagina 408 - Acts prohibiting the payment of wages in goods, or otherwise than in the current coin of the realm.

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