Unions before the Bar: Historic Trials Showing the Evolution of Labor Rights in the United States

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Preface ix
• - 1 - - The Conspiracy of the Philadelphia Bootmakers (1805-1806) 1
• - 2 - - "Virtuous Ends Pursued by Virtuous Means" (1840-1842) 16
• - 3 - - Government by Injunction -- the Pullman Strike 1894-1895) 29
• - 4 - - That "Freedom" to Hire and Fire (1906-1908) 44
• - 5 - - The Danbury Hatters Face the Sherman Act (1902-1913) 56
• - 6 - - How Samuel Gompers Was Saved from Jail (1906-1913) 71
• - 7 - - The "Yellov-Dog" Contract (1907-1917) 84
• - 8 - - The Vanishing "Magna Carta" (1913-1921) 96
• - 9 - - "Pink-Tea Picketing" (1914-1921) 108
• - 10 - - When Picketing Meets "Due Process" (1916-1921) 118
• - 11 - - The Compulsory Arbitration Cure (1920-1925) 127
• - 12 - - The Confusing Coroados (1914-1925) 141
• - 14 - - Advertising for Customers: Merchants by Window Display, Union by Picketing (1935-1937) 173
• - 15 - - The Supreme Court Sees the Industrial Facts Of Life (1936-1937) 181
• - 16 - - The Sit-Down Strike Boomerangs (1937-1939) 204
• - 17 - - The "Free Speech" Umbrella for Peaceful Picketing (1939-1940) 217
• - 18 - - The Sherman Act in Modern Dress (1937-1940) 225
• - 19 - - The Protective Wings of the Norris-La Guardia Act (1940-1941) 241
• - 20 - - All Within the Union Are Brethren" (1941-1944) 252
• - 21 - - There Are No Rights Without Duties (1942-1944) 263
• - 22 - - Let Unions Beware of the Company They Keep (1935-1945) 272
• - 23 - - The High Cost of Contempt (1946-1947) 287
• - 24 - - With Malice Toward Labor (1947-1948) 303
• - 25 - - The Open Gates of the Closed Shop (1947-1949) 330
• - 26 - - Looking Both Ways 344
• Cases and Authorities Cited 353
• Bibliography 355
• Index 363

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