Word: legal
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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During the past decade in several branches of the garment-making industries of New York and Chicago, certain principles for the adjustment of conflicting interests with employes by legal methods have been experimented with. This experience has suggested certain ideas and possibilities interesting to those who appreciate the growing danger of leaving the settlement of employer-employee controversies to the arbitrament of industrial warfare and who understand how, in other human relations, the crude method of forces has been superseded by the legal method...
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...judicial boards and committees are composed of representatives in equal strength of employers and employees, presided over by a neutral arbitrator who casts the deciding vote. This neutral arbitrator has the opportunity to develop an extra-legal process of mediation by which the necessity of much litigation is avoided. It is usually stipulated that the agreements reached by mediation do not create precedents, but apply only to the particular cases in hand. The neutral arbitrator, if he has the ability and inclination, may in the course of his work by discussion and education establish standards of justice and fair dealing...
That is only what should have been done long ago. Poland, aside from the fact that she needs a seaport of her own in order to thrive commercially, has certain legal jurisdictions over the city, and also the right to improve the harbor, waterfront, railways, and the other public utilities that she may find it necessary to use. But she cannot enforce her laws nor carry out her improvements unless she possesses some means by which she may force her authority. The glaring fault of internationalism as applied to cities was shown at the time of the Red drive...
Theodore F. Green of the Providence Bar will speak on "A Legal Practitioner's Mental Equipment" in Peabody Hall of Phillips Brooks House Sunday at 8 o'clock. This meeting is held under the auspices of the Law School Society and is open to all men in the University...