This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... and, to a certain extent, voluminous, but many of the states have, as I have intimated, defined these things and the courts are therefore bound to follow the statute. I need not cite the states that have undertaken to legislate on these matters, except to cite one law which may be considered as representative ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... and, to a certain extent, voluminous, but many of the states have, as I have intimated, defined these things and the courts are therefore bound to follow the statute. I need not cite the states that have undertaken to legislate on these matters, except to cite one law which may be considered as representative of the more drastic legislation of the past few years. Alabama has a statute which provides that "Any person who, by force or threats of violence to person or property, prevents, or seeks to prevent, another from doing work or furnishing materials, or from contracting to do work or furnish materials, for or to any person engaged in any lawful business, or who disturbs, interferes with or prevents the peaceable exercise of any lawful industry, business or calling by any other person, must, on conviction, be fined not less than ten nor more than five hundred dollars, and may also be imprisoned in the county jail," etc. Other legislation may be found in the statutes of many states. But strikes, and boycotts, and intimidations cannot be prevented by legislation. Those engaged in them may here and there be apprehended, tried, and sentenced; but there must be something else than law. There must be methods involving elements higher than the police force of states in order to reach and cure the evil. Whatever evils exist, and whatever the unhappy results of strikes may have been, they have had in varying degree considerable influence upon economic affairs in the organizations of laborers, in calling attention to the relations between employers and employees, and in various other directions. The complications of a disturbing nature are those which appeal to the public, although I think that during the last five or six years most great strikes have...
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Add this copy of Battles of Labor: Being the William Levi Bull Lectures to cart. $32.00, very good condition, Sold by Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Springfield, MA, UNITED STATES, published 1906 by George W. Jacobs & Co.,.
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Very Good. First edition. Octavo, half-bound in in dark green leather with gilt design along spine, marbled boards, top edge gilt. Small title and author panels missing along spine, minor shelf wear, else very good. Binding is solid and tight.; 220 pages.
