Decisions Of Courts And Opinions Affecting Labor 1913

Author : United States. Bureau Statistics
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230054384
Total Pages : 142 pages
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Download or read book Decisions of Courts and Opinions Affecting Labor written by United States. Bureau Statistics and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ...S. 418, 439, 31 Sup. Ct. 492 Bul. No. 95, p. 323. The cardinal error of defendants' position lies in the assumption that the right is so absolute that it may be exercised under any circumstances and without any qualification; whereas in truth, like other rights that exist in civilized society, it must always be exercised with reasonable regard for the confiicting rights of others. _ Now, assuming defendants were exercising, through Hughes, the right to invite men to join their union, still they had plain notice that plaintifl"s mine was run "nonunion," that none of the men had a right to remain at work there after joining the union, and that the observance of this agreement was of great importance and value both to plaintiff and to its men who had voluntarily made the agreement and desired to continue working under it. Yet defendants, far from exercising any care to refrain from unnecessarily injuring plaintiff, deliberately and advisedly selected that method of enlarging their membership which would inflict the greatest injury 1lpOI1e)l3.lI1l3lff and its loyal employees. Every Hitchman miner who joine Hughes's " secret order" and permitted his name to be entered upon Hughes's list was guilty of a breach of his contract of employment and enacted a lie whenever thereafter he entered plaintifff's mine to work. Hughes not only connived at this, but must be deemed to have caused and procured it, for it was the main feature of defendants' plan, the sine qua non of their program. True, it is suggested that under the existing contract an employee was not called upon to leave plaintifff's employ until he actually joined the union and that the evidence shows only an attempt by...