The Development of Public Interest in Labor ControversiesUniversity of Wisconsin--Madison, 1921 - 120 pàgines |
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1bid 20 Ibid 43 Ibid Academy of Political action Adamson Acts American Academy Philadelphia Annals of American Anthracite Coal Strike anthracite field appoint arbitration feature award Bishop Board of Conciliation board of mediation Bookman brotherhoods Bulletin Bureau Labor Bulletin of Bureau Bureau Labor Statistics Bureau of Labor Carroll D Commissioner of Labor Compulsory Arbitration Congress 2nd Session contending parties Dana E decision demands Durand employer or employee employers and employees Erdman Act Federal Intervention Governor of Pennsylvania Gunton's Magazine Coal Ibid 24 indus industrial conflict industrial peace Interstate Commerce Commission Intervention in Labor involved labor controversies Labor Disputes legislation Lyman Abbott Mark Hanna McCabe mediation and conciliation miners Neill Newlands Act North American Review operators ployees President Roosevelt Prevention of Strikes Proceedings of Academy provision public interest railroads refused Review of Reviews roads Secretary of Labor settlement settling disputes Strike Commission tically tion union wages
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Pàgina 4 - Property does become clothed with a public interest when used in a manner to make it of public consequence, and affect the community at large. When, therefore, one devotes his property to a use in which the public has an interest, he, in effect, grants to the public an interest in that use, and must submit to be controlled by the public for the common good, to the extent of the interest he has thus created.
Pàgina 36 - I disclaim any right or duty to intervene in this way upon legal grounds or upon any official relation that I bear to the situation, but the urgency and the terrible nature of the catastrophe Impending over a large portion of our people in the shape of a winter fuel famine impel me.
Pàgina 18 - Act and the employees of such carrier, seriously interrupting or threatening to interrupt the business of said carrier, the chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Commissioner of Labor shall, upon the request of either party to the controversy, with all practicable expedition, put themselves in communication with the parties to such controversy, and shall use their best efforts, by mediation and conciliation, to amicably settle the same...
Pàgina 38 - Gentlemen: At the request both of the operators and of the miners, I have appointed you a Commission to inquire into, consider, and pass upon the questions in controversy in connection with the strike in the anthracite region, and the causes out of which the controversy arose. By the action you recommend, which the parties in interest have in advance consented to abide by, you will endeavor to establish the relations between the employers and the wage workers in the anthracite fields on a just and...
Pàgina 11 - It recognizes indirectly what is too often overlooked,—that the interests at stake are not merely those of the laborer and employer, but also those of the community at large. The latter has such a great stake in the contest that it cannot afford to stand idly by, and permit the former to disturb society to its foundations, and destroy in their struggle the very conditions of sound economic progress. PH Donnelly, Esq., Secretary of the Illinois Miners...
Pàgina 38 - ... President its findings. This document proved to be successful in settling the controversy, and the Anthracite Board of Conciliation thereby established so far has been successful in carrying out the instructions of the President, " to endeavor to establish the relations between employers and wage-workers in the anthracite field on a just and permanent basis, and as far as possible to do away with any causes for the recurrence of such difficulties as those which you have been called upon to settle.
Pàgina 35 - But the public at large will tend to visit upon our heads responsibility for the shortage in coal precisely as Kansas and Nebraska visited upon our heads their failure to raise good crops in the arid belt, eight, ten, or a dozen years ago. I do not see what I can do, and I know the coal operators are especially distrustful of anything which they regard as in the nature of political interference. But I do most earnestly feel that from every consideration of public policy and of good morals they should...
Pàgina 20 - The act merely provides that in case of disputes actually interrupting or seriously threatening to interrupt interstate traffic, either party to the controversy may appeal to the presiding judge of the Commerce Court and the Commissioner of Labor to put themselves in communication with the other party and endeavor by mediation and conciliation to bring about an amicable adjustment of the matters at issue. The mediators are without...
Pàgina 40 - ... its report. The miners received a ten per cent increase in wages. Their union was not formally recognized, but the operators were compelled to adopt the so-called "open shop" principle in their mines. For the purpose of preventing future strikes, the commission provided for reference of all disputes to a board of conciliation of six members, three to be chosen by each side. If this board failed to agree, the federal judge of the district was to make a final decision. Both parties professed to...
Pàgina 17 - ... either to the public or the private parties concerned. 2. Whenever a controversy concerning wages, hours of labor, or conditions of employment shall arise between a carrier subject to this Act and the employe's of such carrier, seriously interrupting or threatening to interrupt the business of said carrier, the Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission and Commissioner of Labor shall, upon the request of either party to the controversy...