The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Volume 44American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1912 |
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Page 111 - But the very fact that it is lawful to form these bodies, with multitudes of members, means that they have thereby acquired a vast power in the presence of which the individual may be helpless.
Page 108 - ... Their reasons may seem inadequate to others, but, if it seems to be in their interest as members of an organization to refuse longer to work, it is their legal right to stop. The reason may no more be demanded, as a right, of the organization than of an individual, but if they elect to state the reason their right to stop work is not cut off because the reason seems inadequate or selfish to the employer or to organized society.
Page 107 - To justify interference with the rights of others," the opinion continues, "the strikers must in good faith strike for a purpose which the court decides to be a legal justification for such interference. ... A strike is not a strike for a legal purpose because the strikers struck in good faith for a purpose which they thought was a sufficient justification for a strike.
Page 155 - It is, then, conservative to set $650 as the extreme low limit of the Living Wage in cities of the North, East, and West. Probably $600 is high enough for the cities of the South. At this wage there can be no saving and a minimum of pleasure.
Page 113 - When our constitutions were adopted it was the law of the land that no man who was without fault or negligence could be held liable in damages for injuries sustained by another.
Page 113 - When an eighteenth century Constitution forms the charter of liberty of a twentieth century government, must its general provisions be construed and interpreted by an eighteenth century mind in the light of eighteenth century conditions and ideals? Clearly not. This were to command the race to halt in its progress, to stretch the state upon a veritable bed of Procrustes.
Page 108 - at common law every person has individually, and the public also has collectively, a right to require that the course of trade should be kept free from unreasonable obstruction.
Page 112 - ... is not so much that his right to contract has been infringed upon, but that the act works a peculiar hardship to his employees, whose right to labor as long as they please is alleged to be thereby violated. The argument would certainly come with better grace and greater cogency from the latter class.
Page 109 - In this respect this court recognizes no substantial distinction between the so-called primary and secondary boycott. Each rests upon the right of the union to withdraw its patronage from its employer, and to induce by fair means any and all other persons to do the same, and, In exercise of those means, as the unions would have the unquestioned right to withhold their patronage from a third person who continued to deal...
Page 110 - The true grounds of decision are considerations of policy and of social advantage, and it is vain to suppose that solutions can be attained merely by logic and the general propositions of law which nobody disputes.