American Federationist: Official Magazine of the American Federation of Labor, Volume 23

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American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, 1916 - Labor unions
v. 68, no. 7, June 1961- include section: Collective bargaining report.
 

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Page 655 - Property is everything which has an exchangeable value, and the right of property includes the power to dispose of it according to the will of the owner. Labor is property, and as such merits protection. The right to make it available is next in importance to the rights of life and liberty.
Page 661 - Adherence to the principle that the labor of human beings is not a commodity or article of commerce ; (6) Provision for jury trial of persons accused of violating injunctions.
Page 1101 - Yet, faithful still as a bridge of stars, She fights in her walled-up town — Fights on and on in the endless wars, Then, silent, unseen, goes down.
Page 810 - ... years have been employed or permitted to work more than eight hours in any day, or more than six days in any week, or after the hour of seven o'clock postmeridian, or before the hour of six o'clock antemeridian...
Page 809 - No producer, manufacturer, or dealer shall ship or deliver for shipment in commerce any goods produced in an establishment situated in the United States in or about which within thirty days prior to the removal of such goods therefrom any oppressive child labor has been employed...
Page 685 - ... gaining a little to-day and a little to-morrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief, over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall be usurped...
Page 1101 - Twas fought by the mothers of men. Nay, not with cannon or battle shot, With sword or nobler pen ; Nay, not with eloquent words or thought, From mouths of wonderful men ; But deep in a walled-up woman's heart — Of woman that would not yield, But bravely, silently, bore her part — Lo ! there is that battlefield. No marshaling troops, no bivouac song, No banner to gleam and wave ; But, oh ! these battles, they last so long, From babyhood to the grave.
Page 1016 - Conditions of work are accepted without question and without complaint which, immediately detrimental to output, would If continued be ultimately disastrous to health. It is for the nation to safeguard the devotion of its workers by its foresight and watchfulness lest irreparable harm be done to body and mind both in this generation and the next.
Page 688 - Government while making or causing to be made with a stop watch or other time-measuring device a time study of any job of any such employee between the starting and completion thereof, or of the movements of any such employee...
Page 656 - ... remedy is by an action of tort, to be brought by each petitioner separately. The only grievance alleged which is continuing in its nature is the conspiracy not to employ the petitioners, and...

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