Word: contract
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...curtails the right of the employer on the one hand and of the employee on the other to contract about his affairs. This is part of the liberty of the individual protected by ... the 14th Amendment...
...United States, labor and freedom of contract have in general been allowed to develop under few restrictions. The Supreme Court has just ruled against the state law of Kansas which prescribed compulsory settlement of wage disputes. This law had imposed the greatest measure of state interferenced in Labour Problems yet attended in the United States, and even this much has been discouraged by the Supreme Court...
...this strike. But on June 26 there will be a convention of three anthracite districts. Brennan, the conservative leader in the Scranton district, faces strenuous opposition from the radicals. If the latter succeed in their plans it is thought that they will be strong enough to prevent a new contract and force a strike...
These States seem to rely upon the enforcement of the State Contract Labor Laws, which require all labor agents to have licenses, and provide heavy fines for violation...
...Chinese General Chamber of Commerce lent its complaining voice to that of the rickshaw experts. It petitioned the Government to cancel the contract on the ground that it would ruin thousands of rickshaw coolies. "Besides, there is foreign money behind the trolley car company...