The Labour Gazette, Volume 27

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Canada Department of Labour., 1927 - Labor

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Page 421 - The payment to the employed of a wage adequate to maintain a reasonable standard of life as this is understood in their time and country.
Page 49 - ... 4. Watches or besets the house or other place where such other person resides, or works, or carries on business, or happens to be, or the approach to such house or place ; or 5.
Page 523 - It is hereby declared (a) that any strike is illegal if it — (i) has any object other than or in addition to the furtherance of a trade dispute within the trade or industry in which the strikers are engaged ; and (ii) is a strike designed or calculated to coerce the Government either directly or by inflicting hardship upon the community...
Page 123 - The right to carry on business — be it called liberty or property — has value. To interfere with this right without just cause is unlawful. The fact that the injury was inflicted by a strike is sometimes a justification. But a strike may be illegal because of its purpose, however orderly the manner in which it is conducted.
Page 444 - Employees have the right to contract for their services in a collective capacity, but any contract that contains a stipulation that employment should be denied to men' not parties to the contract...
Page 418 - Convention concerning equality of treatment for national and foreign workers as regards workmen's compensation for accidents (1925); and the Convention concerning the simplification of the inspection of emigrants on board ship (1926).
Page 524 - A person who willfully and maliciously, either alone or in combination with others, breaks a contract of service or hiring, knowing, or having reasonable cause to believe, that the probable consequence of his so doing will be to endanger human life, or to cause grievous bodily injury, or to expose valuable property to destruction or serious injury, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
Page 343 - Parent" includes father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, stepfather, stepmother, a person who adopted a child, and a person who stood in loco parentis to the deceased.
Page 164 - means wife or husband, father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, step-father, step-mother, son, daughter, grandson, granddaughter, step-son, step-daughter, brother, sister, half-brother, half-sister ; "Ship...
Page 475 - A combination of two or more persons wilfully to injure a man in his trade is unlawful and, if it results in damage to him, is actionable. (2) If the real purpose of the combination is, not to injure another, but to forward or defend the trade of those who enter into it, then no wrong is committed and no action will lie, although damage to another ensues.

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