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Page 294 - line upon line; precept upon precept; here a little; there a little...
Page 75 - Either some Caesar or Napoleon will seize the reins of government with a strong hand, or your republic will be as fearfully plundered and laid waste by barbarians in the twentieth century as the Roman Empire was in the fifth, with this difference, that the Huns and Vandals who ravaged the Roman Empire came from without, and that your Huns and Vandals will have been engendered within your own country by your own institutions.
Page 88 - Public policy and the interests of society favor the utmost freedom in the citizen to pursue his lawful trade or calling, and if the purpose of an organization or combination of workingmen be...
Page 285 - Though the common design is the essence of the charge, it is not necessary to prove that the defendants came together and actually agreed in terms to have that design and to pursue it by common means. If it be proved that the defendants pursued by their acts the same object, often by the same means, one performing one part and another another part of the same, so as to complete it with a view to the attainment of...
Page 516 - I have always felt that the surest way to qualify for the job just ahead is to work a little harder than anyone else on the job one is holding down. One of the most successful men I have known never carried a watch until he began to earn ten thousand dollars a year. Before that he had managed with a nickel alarm clock in his bed-room, which he never forgot to wind.
Page 89 - One of the grievances urged against the labor organizations is that they deliberately restrict the output, acting upon the theory that there is only a limited amount of work to be done, and that it is good policy for them to make it go as far and pay as much in wages as possible.
Page 283 - Any one man, or any one of several men acting Independently, is powerless; but when several combine, and direct their united energies to the accomplishment of a bad purpose, the combination is formidable. Its power for evil increases as its number increases. • • * The combination becomes dangerous and subversive of the rights of others, and the law wisely says it is a crime.
Page 550 - ... of the employer to discharge any workman when he sees fit. 7. The above principles being absolutely essential to the successful conduct of our business, they are not subject to arbitration. In case of disagreement concerning matters not covered by the foregoing declaration, we advise our members to meet their employees, either individually or collectively, and endeavor to adjust the difficulty on a fair and equitable basis.
Page 477 - Section 1 of the act * * * is not confined to voluntary restraints, as where persons engaged in interstate trade or commerce agree to suppress competition among themselves, but includes as well involuntary restraints, as where persons not so engaged conspire to compel action by others, or to create artificial conditions, which necessarily impede or burden the due course of such trade or commerce, or restrict the common liberty to engage therein.