Proceedings of the 1st-3d Annual Meeting, American Association for Labor Legislation, Volúmenes1-3American Association for Labor Legislation., 1908 |
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... employer in past times thought his liberty invaded when he could not contract for an unlimited number of hours ' work for children of any age . Laws forbidding this liberty and establishing schools with compulsory edu- cation , when ...
... employer in past times thought his liberty invaded when he could not contract for an unlimited number of hours ' work for children of any age . Laws forbidding this liberty and establishing schools with compulsory edu- cation , when ...
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... employers and employees in particular . And it is allied to no particular party . It is consulted by many governments and by adherents of the various political parties of our day ; by employers as well as by advocates of labor . Its ...
... employers and employees in particular . And it is allied to no particular party . It is consulted by many governments and by adherents of the various political parties of our day ; by employers as well as by advocates of labor . Its ...
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... employers of labor believe that a reduction of hours or increase in wages is detrimental to the business . concerned , and resist all such efforts on the part of union or industrial laborers . Some of the coal - mines of this country ...
... employers of labor believe that a reduction of hours or increase in wages is detrimental to the business . concerned , and resist all such efforts on the part of union or industrial laborers . Some of the coal - mines of this country ...
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... employer makes the rules and the em- ployees are practically constrained to obey them . Hence self interest is often an unsafe guide and the legislature may properly interpose its authority . It is not so much the right of contract of ...
... employer makes the rules and the em- ployees are practically constrained to obey them . Hence self interest is often an unsafe guide and the legislature may properly interpose its authority . It is not so much the right of contract of ...
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... employer instead of on their own time , and makes the effective work day about seven and one half hours . This decision of the United States Supreme Court is of the very greatest importance for future legislation in the interest of coal ...
... employer instead of on their own time , and makes the effective work day about seven and one half hours . This decision of the United States Supreme Court is of the very greatest importance for future legislation in the interest of coal ...
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Página 103 - But neither the Amendment, broad and comprehensive as it is, nor any other amendment was designed to interfere with the power of the State, sometimes termed its ' police power,' to prescribe regulations to promote the health, peace, morals, education and good order of the people, and to legislate so as to increase the industries of the State, develop its resources and add to its wealth and prosperity.
Página 33 - Statutes of the nature of that under review, limiting the hours in which grown and intelligent men may labor to earn their living, are mere meddlesome interferences with the rights of the individual...
Página 46 - There is no contention that bakers as a class are not equal in intelligence and capacity to men in other trades or manual occupations, or that they are not able to assert their rights and care for themselves without the protecting arm of the state interfering with their independence of judgment and of action. They are in no sense wards of the state.
Página 97 - When one becomes a member of society, he necessarily parts with some rights or privileges which, as an individual not affected by his relations to others, he might retain. " A body politic," as aptly defined in the preamble of the Constitution of Massachusetts, "is a social compact by which the whole people covenants with each citizen, and each citizen with the whole people, that all shall be governed by certain laws for the common good.
Página 99 - ... happiness and prosperity of its people, and to provide for its general welfare, by any and every act of legislation, which it may deem to be conducive to these ends; where the power over the particular subject, or the manner of its exercise is not surrendered or restrained, in the manner just stated, That all those powers which relate to merely municipal legislation, or what may perhaps, more properly be called internal police, are not thus surrendered or restrained; and that, consequently, in...
Página 87 - It may not be improper to suggest in this connection that although the prosecution in this case was against the employer of labor, who apparently, under the statute, is the only one liable, his...
Página 106 - But where the law is not prohibited, and is really calculated to effect any of the objects intrusted to the government, to undertake here to inquire into the degree of its necessity, would be to pass the line which circumscribes the judicial department, and to tread on legislative ground.
Página 104 - The enactment does not profess to limit the hours of all workmen, but merely those who are employed in underground mines, or in the smelting, reduction, or refining of ores or metals. These employments, when too long pursued, the legislature has judged to be detrimental to the health of the employees, and, so long as there are reasonable grounds for believing that this is so, its decision upon this subject cannot be reviewed by the federal courts.
Página 104 - The general right to make a contract in relation to his business is part of the liberty of the individual protected by the Fourteenth Amendment of the Federal Constitution.
Página 33 - All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellors, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.