An Introduction to the Study of Organized Labor in America
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The court argued that pubUc policy and the interests of society favor the utmost freedom in the citizen to pursue his lawful calling or trade. If a combination of workingmen interfered with the fulfillment of this purpose through contracts with employers, coercing other workingmen to become members of the organization, such action militates against the principle of public policy which prohibits monopoly and special privileges. "It would tend to deprive the pubhc of the services of men in useful... employments and capacities. It would impoverish and crush a citizen for no reason connected in the slightest degree with the advancement of wages or the maintenance of the rate." Concluding, the court says: "While it may be true that the contract was entered into, on the part of the (employers), with the object of avoiding dis- putes and conflicts with the workingmen's organization, that feature and such an intention cannot aid the defence, nor legalize a plan of compeUing workingmen not in affiliation with the or- ganization to join it, at the peril of being deprived of their em- ployment and of the means of making a Uvelihood." (Curran vs.
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