Trade Unions and the Law in New York: A Study of Some Legal Phases of Labor Organizations ...Columbia University., 1905 - 134 pages |
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Page 54 - To commit any act injurious to the public health, to public morals, or to trade or commerce, or for the perversion or obstruction of justice, or of the due administration of the laws; Each of them is guilty of a misdemeanor.
Page 53 - To prevent another from exercising a lawful trade or calling, or doing any other lawful act by force, threats, intimidation, or by interfering or threatening to interfere with tools, 'L., 1870, ch. 19. implements, or property belonging to or used by another, or with the use or employment thereof ; or, 6. To commit any act injurious to the public health, to public morals, or to trade or commerce...
Page 69 - No conspiracy is punishable criminally unless it is one of those enumerated in the last two sections, and the orderly and peaceable assembling or co-operation of persons employed in any calling, trade or handicraft for the purpose of obtaining an advance in the rate of wages or compensation, or of maintaining such rate, is not a conspiracy.
Page 87 - It is a part of every man's civil rights that he be left at liberty to refuse business relations with any person whomsoever, whether the refusal rests upon reason, or is the result of whim, caprice, prejudice, or malice.
Page 42 - That the American Federation of Labor most firmly and unequivocally favors the independent use of the ballot by the trade unionists and workingmen, united regardless of party, that we may elect men from our own ranks to make new laws and administer them...
Page 71 - The rights of workmen are conceded; but the exercise of free will and freedom of action, within the limits of the law, is also secured equally to the masters. The intention of the law is at present to allow either of them to follow the dictates of their own will, with respect to their own actions and their own property; and either, I believe, has a right to study to promote his own advantage, or to combine with others to promote their mutual advantage.
Page 51 - Falsely to move or maintain any suit, action or proceeding; 4. To cheat and defraud any person of any property, by any means which are in themselves criminal, or to obtain money or property by false pretenses or by false promises with fraudulent intent not to perform such promises; 5.
Page 58 - A combination of workmen to raise their wages may be considered in a two fold point of view: one is to benefit themselves ... the other is to injure those who do not join their society. The rule of law condemns both.
Page 119 - It is important to the best interests of society that the price of labor be left to regulate itself, or rather be limited by the demand for it. Combinations and confederacies to enhance or reduce the prices of labor, or of any articles of trade or commerce, are injurious.
Page 50 - The Act goes on to define champerty (campi-partitio). ' Champerters be they that move Pleas and Suits, or cause to be moved either by their own procurement or by others, and sue them at their proper Costs, for to have part of the Land in variance, or Part of the Gains.