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Page 130 - In Brace Brothers v. Evans (3 R. & Corp. LJ, 561) It Is said: "The word Itself implies a threat. In popular acceptation it is an organized effort to exclude a person from business relations with others by persuasion. Intimidation, and other acts which tend to violence, and they coerce him, through fear of resulting Injury, to submit to dictation In the management of his affairs.
Page 11 - As usually understood, a boycott is a combination of many to cause a loss to one person by coercing others against their will, to withdraw from him their beneficial business intercourse through threats that, unless those others do so, the many will cause similar loss to them.
Page 7 - PREFACE This monograph had its origin in an investigation carried on by the author while a member of the Economic Seminary of the Johns Hopkins University.
Page 126 - Rice or his organization there was nothing wrongful in his artThe courts cannot compel men to work, and they can leave for any reason they see fit, or without reason; and if it be that the carpenters in this case desired to comply with the rules and regulations of their brotherhood there is no law that can prevent them or could prevent Rice from informing them that the trim was non-union material.
Page 24 - Almost without warning the boycott suddenly emerged in 1880 to become for the next ten or fifteen years the most effective weapon of unionism. There was no object so mean and no person so exalted as to escape its power. Side by side, with equal prominence, the Knights of Labor boycotted clothing manufacturers and their draymen, insignificant country grocers and presidential candidates, insipid periodicals and the currency of...
Page 65 - In 1905 one hundred and eighteen of the one hundred and thirty national and international unions belonged to the Federation. Moreover, the number of national associations is being constantly swelled through the efforts of paid agents maintained by the American Federation of Labor. These agents are continually organizing local unions among the non-union workers in various industries and welding them together into international trade unions. The influence of the American Federation of Labor has also...
Page 119 - ... the destination of the boycotted article, or else the goods should be easy to identify, since the average workman will not put himself to much trouble to find out which goods he should not purchase, although he may be willing to support the boycott if he can tell with ease what goods to avoid. (5) The number of unionists must be large and under a central unifying authority. If unionists constitute only a small proportion of the purchasers of a commodity, their failure to buy may result in no...
Page 13 - ... the term boycott will be used to describe the efforts of labor combinations to restrict the markets of employers in the purchase and sale of economic goods, whether these goods be raw materials, materials in a partial state of completion, or finished products about to be sold to the ultimate consumer.
Page 122 - The strike which is held in reserve to be resorted to only in case of need is the chief reliance of organized labor, and a part of the pay that men get when they never strike at all is due to their ultimate power to do this.
Page 94 - ... into unions, on the ground that they were employers and not workmen. (e) The Knights of Labor developed the use of the boycott as an instrument of industrial warfare. The same breadth of organization that facilitated the distribution of cooperative products was effective in the field of consumption. A trade union in any locality may cease purchasing an article without appreciably reducing its sale, since the number of consumers observing the boycott is necessarily small ; but an assembly of the...