Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics. no. 78, 1908, Issue 78U.S. Government Printing Office, 1908 |
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acci accident liability action American amount appeal appellee applicant Arkansas average barber brotherhood Bulletin Bureau causes cent at ages charge coal Colorado committee common carrier Cotton Belt Railway court DEATHS FROM ACCIDENTS defendant DEGREE OF INJURY director of public District of Columbia drawbars duty El Paso emigration employed employment engineer evidence factory Fatal accidents francs Germany Goldfield hospital association hours of labor immigrants index numbers industries inspectors intimidation labor of employees less licensed person Louisiana males Massachusetts ment Mexican labor Mexico mines Missouri Montana mortality Nevada NONFATAL ACCIDENTS NUMBER OF DEATHS occupation Oregon paid Pennsylvania pension pickets plaintiff ployees pounds present public safety purpose railroad company railway rents Rhode Island South Carolina statistics statute strike strikers temporary disablement Texas thereof tion towns trades union United United Kingdom unlawful violation wages workers York
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Page 582 - ... in the District of Columbia, or in any Territory of the United States...
Page 595 - The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are found among millions of working people and the few, who make up the employing class, have all the good things of life.
Page 607 - Without attempting to review and reconcile all the cases, we are of opinion that as a general description, though perhaps not a precise and accurate definition, a conspiracy must be a combination of two or more persons by some concerted action, to accomplish some criminal or unlawful purpose or to accomplish some purpose not in itself criminal or unlawful, by criminal or unlawful means.
Page 599 - ... when the question is one of a common or general interest, of many persons, or when the parties are numerous, and it is impracticable to bring them all before the 'court, one or more may sue or defend for the benefit of all.
Page 550 - ... option of a fine or to suffer any greater punishment, he shall be disqualified for receiving or continuing to receive an old age pension under this act while he is detained in prison in consequence of the order, and for a further period of ten years after the date on which he is released from prison.
Page 552 - means the Local Government Board for Scotland ; the expression " borough " means royal or parliamentary burgh ; the expression " urban district " means police burgh ; the population limit for boroughs and urban districts shall not apply ; and the expression " Lunacy Act, 1890," means the Lunacy (Scotland) Acts, 1857 to 1900. (2) In the application of this Act to Ireland, the expression
Page 625 - ... to be employed in violation of its provisions, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less...
Page 630 - That when any person shall sustain personal injury or loss of life while lawfully engaged or employed on or about the roads, works, depots and premises of a railroad company...
Page 552 - Parliament as soon as may be after they are made, and, if an address is presented to His Majesty by either House of Parliament within the next subsequent forty days on which that house has sat...
Page 579 - That within ninety days from the passage of this act the American Railway Association is authorized hereby to designate to the Interstate Commerce Commission the standard height of drawbars for freight cars, measured perpendicular from the level of the tops of the rails to the centers of the drawbars, for each of the several gauges of railroads in use in the United States, and shall fix a maximum variation from such standard height to be allowed between the drawbars of empty and loaded cars.