Railroad Capitalization; A Study of the Principles of Regulation of Railroad Securities Volume 215-216

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ...Laws of 1888, see also Serrenth Annual Report of the Factory Inspectors, pp. 52-54. ' See Fourth Annual Report Factory Inspectors, Assembly Documents It is significant to note that no demand for enforcement of the law was made to the factory inspectors by labor unions, parents, minors or employers, and few cases came up under it. The laws in the other states met the similar fate of non-enforcement and became virtually dead-letters.--' 7. The Nationalization of Trade Union Restrictions upon Apprenticeship Contemporaneous with the attempt to regulate appren-ticeship by legislation went the attempt to regulate it by trade-union enactment and collective bargaining. At first the ' formulation of the rules governing apprenticeship was left largely to the local unions. This of course proved inadequate. A national problem could not be regulated by the uncoordinated rules of local bodies. In those cities where the unions were weak or non-existent, large numbers of apprentices or juvenile workers could be employed and taught only a fraction of their trade. Many of these, upon completing their service and failing to secure a journeyman's position, would go to other cities and menace the position of union workmen there. Often, moreover, a weak union would prefer to admit men as full-fledged journeymen even though they had served no apprenticeship, believing that these men menaced them less inside the organization than without.' These entrants could then go to other cities, present their union card, and be treated as master workmen. Impotent a.s the locals proved to be, the national bodies were nevertheless slow in shouldering the responsibility for regulation.' As late as 1890, only seventeen of for-tyeight trades unions, ...