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Show WHAT MAY BE DONE. There has been a multiplicity of decisions de-cisions by the courts of the different States on the various questions presented pre-sented by tho disputes between employer em-ployer and employee, and many curious suits have been begun by both sides. In some respects the decisions and rulings rul-ings have been in conflict, and in others oth-ers there has been a consensus of basic principle which had led to similarity of judgment. Vice Chancellor Pitney of New Jersey has been to the trouble of making a digest and summary of the Judgments rendered by the appellate courts nn the cases presented, and he states them concisely and fairly In these paragraphs: First That all sorts of laborers may lawfully combine and forn unions for their mutuul benollt, and thai they may use all lawful means to promote their own interests, being careful In so doing not 'to Infringe on tho rights of othorB. Second One lawful means to that end Is the refusal to work on terms olrcrcd by tho employer. Third An unlawful means Is. to hinder or prevent others from working for an employer unJcr cuch terms as they shall see lit Fourth One means of such hindering and preventing is In various ways to rerider It cither difficult or uncomfortable" uncomfort-able" forjsuch willing workmen to work. This Is an unlawful means. Fifth Another unlawful means In common com-mon use to hinder or prevent willing employees from working and to compel employers to accede to terms which they would not otherwlso adopt 1b the boycott In its various, forms. |