Excerpt from Handbook to the Labor Law of the United States This book is the result of an attempt to set forth, as it exists in the United States to-day, that law of labor disputes and the regulation of industrial affairs and protection of employees which has had its greatest development in the last few years. While it is hoped that the work is sufficiently full and accurate to serve as a legal text-book, the author's chief object has been to make it a clear and trustworthy guide for laboring men and their several organizations throughout the United States. Therefore, though occasionally indicating in what directions future improvement may be looked for, he has mainly confined himself to a statement of the law as it exists to-day. To save space, the words chapter, section, etc., have generally been omitted from the citations of statutes, their absence being indicated by commas; and the references are always to the annual laws of the several States, or to the latest revision in general use. The abbreviation C. is used for Constitution. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.