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Page 181 - Sec. 7. That during the pendency of arbitration under this Act it shall not be lawful for the employer, party to such arbitration, to discharge the...
Page 24 - Commonwealth, especially in its relations to the commercial, industrial, social, educational and sanitary condition of the laboring classes, and to the permanent prosperity of the productive industry of the Commonwealth.
Page 7 - Director, supervisor, or enumerator, to render a true account, to the best of his or her knowledge, of every person belonging to such family in the various particulars required...
Page 24 - ... labor desired, and the address of such applicant. Each of ' said superintendents shall be provided with such clerical assistance as in the judgment of the commissioner may appear necessary for properly conducting the duties of their several offices. No compensation or fee shall, directly or indirectly, be charged to or received from any person or persons seeking employment or any person or persons desiring to employ labor through any of said offices. Said...
Page 181 - ... the states of the adoption of some system of conciliation and arbitration like that, for instance, in use in the commonwealth of Massachusetts. That system might be reenforced by additional provisions giving the board of arbitration more power to investigate all strikes, whether requested so to do or not, and the question might be considered as to giving labor organizations a standing before the law, as heretofore suggested for national trade unions. (2) Contracts requiring men to agree not to...
Page 177 - Some of our courts, however, are still poring over the law reports of antiquity in order to construe conspiracy out of labor unions. We also have employers who obstruct progress by perverting and misapplying the law of supply and demand, and who, while insisting upon individualism for workmen, demand that they shall be let alone to combine as they please and that society and all its forces shall protect them in their resulting contentions.
Page 24 - The tenure of office for all superintendents and clerks of free public employment offices shall be two years from the date of appointment, but the commissioner of labor statistics shall have the power of removing any of such superintendents and clerks for good and sufficient cause, and all appointments and removals of such superintendents and clerks shall be made with the consent of the governor.
Page 181 - Statutes of eighteen hundred and eighty-five and eighteen hundred and eighty-six it must be provided in the articles of incorporation and in the constitution, rules, and by-laws that a member shall cease to be such by participating in or by instigating force or violence against persons or property during strikes, lockouts, or boycotts, or by seeking to prevent others from working through violence, threats, or intimidations.
Page 181 - ... special reference to conciliation and arbitration when difficulties are threatened or arise. It is satisfied that employers should come in closer touch with labor and should recognize that, while the interests of labor and capital are not identical, they are reciprocal. 2. The commission is satisfied that if employers everywhere will endeavor to act in concert with labor ; that if, when wages can be raised under economic conditions, they be raised voluntarily ; and that if, when there are reductions,...
Page 24 - ... misdemeanor, and be fined in any sum not exceeding fifty dollars, and imprisoned in the county jail or workhouse not exceeding thirty days. The superintendent of each of said offices shall receive a salary, to be fixed by the council of such city, payable monthly. The clerk or clerks required...

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