. Labor problems and labor legislation . union employers,temporarily at least, to permit unions in theirestablishments. Following the war there were a number ofadverse court decisions, including those in theDuplex Printing Press case in 1921, and theCoronado Coal case in June, 1922, which, despitethe Clayton Act, seriously limited the freedomof trade unions. Strikes and Lockouts But while the right of labor unions to existis no longer questioned in this country, they arestill hampered in many of their labor is slavery, and therefore is not per-mitted in America except as a pu
. Labor problems and labor legislation . union employers,temporarily at least, to permit unions in theirestablishments. Following the war there were a number ofadverse court decisions, including those in theDuplex Printing Press case in 1921, and theCoronado Coal case in June, 1922, which, despitethe Clayton Act, seriously limited the freedomof trade unions. Strikes and Lockouts But while the right of labor unions to existis no longer questioned in this country, they arestill hampered in many of their labor is slavery, and therefore is not per-mitted in America except as a punishment forcrime. Hence a man cannot be compelled towork if he wants to quit, even if he has signeda contract to work. But when many men quittogether, the action becomes a strike, and thisact, the most essential of labors weapons, hasoften been condemned as illegal. The theory on which some strikes are con-demned is that many persons acting together havea power for harm which no one person pos- [971 LABOR PROBLEMS AND LABOR LEGISLATION. PROTECTED FROM DUST Respirators keep flying particles of metal from getting intogrinders lungs. sesses. The deciding point appears to be therather vague one of whether the movement isdesigned primarily to benefit the strikers, or toinjure the employer or non-unionists. Thusstrikes for higher wages or shorter hours areeverywhere considered lawful. But strikes togain a closed shop, sympathetic strikes, strikesagainst obnoxious foremen or non-union mate-rial, and strikes growing out of jurisdiction dis-putes between rival unions, have been con-demned in many states. Only in California is itsettled law that all strikes are legal. On the [98] SELF-GOVERNMENT IN INDUSTRY other hand, the right of an employer to closehis shop when he wishes, in other words toenforce a lock-out, is still unquestioned. Picketing Strikes cannot be won if the employer is ableto fill his shop with strike-breakers. Hence thestrikers try to prevent the employer from get-ting
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