Commonwealth v. Hunt
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Commonwealth v. Hunt
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Abstract
. . . Stripped then of these introductory recitals and alleged injurious consequences, and of the qualifying epithets attached to the facts, the averment is this; that the defendants and others formed themselves into a society, and agreed not to work for any person, who should employ any journeyman or other person, not a member of such society, after notice given him to discharge such workman.
Contents
- The U.S. Labor Movement: Historical Overview
- Worker Testimony: Commonwealth v. Pullis
- Frances Wright: “The People at War”
- Commonwealth v. Hunt
- W. Chase: “Causes of Failure”
- “A Week in the Mill”
- Oath of the Knights of Labor
- Terence Powderly: “The Plea for Eight Hours”
- Samuel Gompers: “What Does Labor Want?”
- Eugene V. Debs: “Industrial Peace”
- Mother Jones: Speech to the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA)
- The U.S. Oil Industry: Historical Overview
- William “Big Bill” Haywood: Speech to the Founding Convention of the Industrial Workers of the World
- Clara Lemlich: Speech Instigating the Uprising of the 20,000
- Mother Jones: Speech to Striking Coal Miners
- Pearl Jolly: Testimony about the Ludlow Massacre
- Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: “Sabotage: The Conscious Withdrawal of Worker Efficiency”
- National Labor Relations Act
- John L. Lewis, “Labor and the Nation”
- Walter Reuther: National Hour Radio Address on Inflation
- Taft-Hartley Act
- Landrum-Griffin Act
- John F. Kennedy: Executive Order 10988: Employee-Management Cooperation in the Federal Service
- George Meany: Congressional Testimony in Favor of Civil Rights Bill
- Ronald Reagan: “Remarks on the Air Traffic Controllers Strike”
- Economic Policy Institute: “NAFTA at Seven”
- Richard Trumka: Speech at the Democratic National Convention
- Starbucks Workers United: “Our Fight”
- Amazon Labor Union: “Our Core Principles”