Labor in Europe (America, Asia, Africá Australasia, and Polynesia) reports from consuls, 2. köide |
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Page 910
... strike against a reduction of 10 per cent . in their wages , and in the face of a falling market . This struggle between capital and labor lasted five months , involving a loss in wages to the South Wales district , as stated by Lord ...
... strike against a reduction of 10 per cent . in their wages , and in the face of a falling market . This struggle between capital and labor lasted five months , involving a loss in wages to the South Wales district , as stated by Lord ...
Page 915
... strikes are almost unknown . In the five years there have only been two . The longest lasted about forty - eight hours . Employers and the work - people come in contact almost every day and anything amiss is dealt with at once . It is ...
... strikes are almost unknown . In the five years there have only been two . The longest lasted about forty - eight hours . Employers and the work - people come in contact almost every day and anything amiss is dealt with at once . It is ...
Page 937
... strikes now and again , but nothing much to speak of . We had one recently in a large ship - build- ing yard here , and only the other day there was a masons ' strike , which considerably affected the building trades and particularly ...
... strikes now and again , but nothing much to speak of . We had one recently in a large ship - build- ing yard here , and only the other day there was a masons ' strike , which considerably affected the building trades and particularly ...
Page 938
... strikes do take place , as far as I have been able to observe , I do not find that this method of settlement has been much resorted to , and I suppose mainly for this reason : That as the men do not resolve upon striking unless and ...
... strikes do take place , as far as I have been able to observe , I do not find that this method of settlement has been much resorted to , and I suppose mainly for this reason : That as the men do not resolve upon striking unless and ...
Page 957
... STRIKES . There are occasionally strikes here , but they are not frequent or pro- longed . Arbitration very seldom is the means that enters into the set- tlement of disagreements between the employers and employés ; gen- erally a ...
... STRIKES . There are occasionally strikes here , but they are not frequent or pro- longed . Arbitration very seldom is the means that enters into the set- tlement of disagreements between the employers and employés ; gen- erally a ...
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Popular passages
Page 1710 - Under sub-section one of section one, unless the defect therein mentioned arose from, or had not been discovered or remedied owing to the negligence of the employer, or of some person in the service of the employer, and entrusted by him with the duty of seeing that the ways, works, machinery, or plant were in proper condition.
Page 974 - The amount of compensation recoverable under this Act shall not exceed such sum as may be found to be equivalent to the estimated earnings, during the three years preceding the injury, of a person in the same grade employed during those years in the like employment and in the district in which the workman is employed at the time of the injury.
Page 1700 - Any exception, exemption, proviso, excuse, or qualification, whether it does or not accompany the description of the offence in this Act, may be proved by the defendant, but need not be specified or negatived...
Page 1709 - By reason of the negligence of any person in the service of the employer to whose orders or directions the workman at the time of the injury was bound to conform, and did conform...
Page 974 - ... the workman, or in case the injury results in death, the legal personal representatives of the workman, and any person entitled in case of death, shall have the same right of compensation and remedies against the employer as if the workman had not been a workman of nor in the service of the employer nor engaged in his work.
Page 1710 - ... an employee, or his legal representative, shall not be entitled under this article to any right of compensation or remedy against the employer in any case where such employee knew of the defect or negligence which caused the injury and failed, within a reasonable time, to give, or cause to be given, information thereof to the employer...
Page 1697 - ... if served by post, shall be deemed to have been served at the time when a letter containing the same would be delivered in the ordinary...
Page 1702 - means the Act of the session of the eleventh and twelfth years of the reign of her present Majesty, chapter forty-three, intituled, " An Act to facilitate the performance of the duties of justices of the peace out of sessions within England and Wales with respect to summary convictions and orders," inclusive of any Acts amending the same.
Page 1693 - Where persons are employed at home, that is to say, in a private house, room, or place which, though used as a dwelling, is by reason of the work carried on there a factory or workshop within the meaning of this act, and in which neither steam, water, nor other mechanical power is used in aid of the manufacturing process carried on there, and in which the only persons employed are members of the same family dwelling there...
Page 1685 - ... shall be renewed once at least in every seven years, and shall be washed with hot water and soap once at least in every six months ; where limewashed the limewashing shall be renewed once at least in every six months. A bakehouse in which there is any contravention of this section shall be deemed not to be kept in conformity with this Act.