Annual Report of the Commissioner of Labor, Ausgabe 1

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State Department of Labor, 1902
"New York typographical union no. 6. Study of a modern trade union and its predecessors ... by George A. Stevens": 1911, v. 2.
 

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Seite 56 - The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable. The patrimony of a poor man...
Seite 41 - ... shall not be less than the prevailing rate for a day's work in the same trade or occupation in the locality...
Seite 33 - 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...
Seite 62 - Committee emphatically declared, to 'earnings barely sufficient to sustain existence ; hours of labour such as to make the lives of the workers periods of almost ceaseless toil; sanitary conditions injurious to the health of the persons employed and dangerous to the public'.
Seite 34 - Beyond this, however, the state may interfere wherever the public interests demand it, and in this particular a large discretion is necessarily vested in the legislature to determine, not only what the interests of the public require, but what measures are necessary for the protection of such interests.
Seite 51 - States, by which the period of employment of workmen in all underground mines or workings shall be eight hours a day, except in cases of emergency, when life or property is in imminent danger, and, also, that the employment of children under the age of 14 and of all women and girls in mines or underground quarries and workings should be forbidden.
Seite 573 - Eight hours for work, eight hours for rest, eight hours for what we will!
Seite 31 - When we speak of freedom as something to be so highly prized, we mean a positive power or capacity of doing or enjoying something worth doing or enjoying, and that, too, something that we do or enjoy in common with others.
Seite 34 - All property in this commonwealth ... is derived directly or indirectly from the government, and held subject to those general regulations, which are necessary to the common good and general welfare. Rights of property, like all other social and conventional rights, are subject to such reasonable limitations in their enjoyment, as shall prevent them from being injurious, and to such reasonable restraints and regulations established by law, as the legislature, under the...
Seite 33 - But the fact that both parties are of full age and competent to contract does not necessarily deprive the state of the power to interfere where the parties do not stand upon an equality, or where the public health demands that one party to the contract shall be protected against himself.

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