Studies in American Trade Unionism

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Jacob Harry Hollander, George Ernest Barnett
H. Holt & Company, 1905 - 380 sider
Collection of 12 essays on minimum wages, collective bargaining, trade-union rules, etc.
 

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Side 17 - Union, were apparently borrowed by the committee which drew them up in 1851 "almost without change except for unimportant omissions from the Constitution of the Right Worthy Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of the United States of America.
Side 252 - NDA that the earnings of a molder should exercise no influence upon the molding price of work, which is set, according to well-established precedent and rule of conference agreements, by comparison with other work of a like kind, the placing of a limit upon the earnings of a molder in the seven hours of molding, should be discountenanced in shops of members of the SFNDA...
Side 229 - Pending adjudication by the presidents and conference committee, neither party to the dispute shall discontinue operations, but shall proceed with business in the ordinary manner.
Side 298 - That there shall be no limitation as to the amount of work a man shall perform during his working day.
Side 323 - The appellants, as chief executive officers, respectively, of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, the Order of Railway Conductors, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, the...
Side 357 - The reduction of the hours of labor to eight per day, so that the laborers may have more time for social enjoyment and intellectual improvement, and be enabled to reap the advantages conferred by the labor-saving machinery which their brains have created.
Side 161 - ... to the place where said union is located, investigate the cause of the disagreement, and endeavor to adjust the difficulty. If his efforts should prove futile, he shall notify the executive council of all the circumstances, and if a majority of said council shall decide that a strike is necessary, such union may be authorized to order a strike...
Side 244 - Apprentices should be given every opportunity to learn all the details in the trade thoroughly, and should be required to serve four years. Any apprentice leaving his employer before the termination of his apprenticeship should not be permitted to work in any foundry under the jurisdiction of the IMU of NA, but should be required to return to his employer. An apprentice should not be admitted to membership in the 1.
Side 358 - It appears to be the generally expressed desire of the societies represented in this Federation that it assume the initiative in a national movement for the reduction of the hours of labor. Sporadic attempts of individual trades in certain localities have met with varying degrees of success, but there is little doubt that a universal centrally directed advance would prove both practical and triumphant.
Side 178 - IOIO be named by the chairman of the special standing committee of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association and the president of the International Typographical Union or their proxies upon the request of either of the interested parties.

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