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The Pennsylvania Archives are a 138 volume set of reference books compiling transcriptions of letters and early records relating to the colony and state of Pennsylvania. The volumes were published in nine different series between 1838 and 1935 by acts of the Pennsylvania legislature .
The most significant portion of the act prohibited a railroad company from demanding that a worker not join a union as a condition for employment (Section 10). The interstate requirement affected individuals who worked on moving trains, such as firemen , brakemen , telegraphers , and conductors , providing that the train transported freight and ...
A less severe form of involuntary termination is often referred to as a layoff (also redundancy or being made redundant in British English). A layoff is usually not strictly related to personal performance but instead due to economic cycles or the company's need to restructure itself, the firm itself going out of business, or a change in the function of the employer (for example, a certain ...
Erdman Act 1898, precursor to the Railway Labor Act 1926 Railroad Transportation Act 1920 , privatized the railroads and established the Railroad Labor Board In re Debs , 158 U.S. 564 (1895) upheld a federal injunction for workers to return to work and held Eugene Debs in contempt of court for continuing to organize the Pullman Strike
Adair v. United States, 208 U.S. 161 (1908), was a US labor law case of the United States Supreme Court which declared that bans on "yellow-dog" contracts (that forbade workers from joining labor unions) were unconstitutional. [1]
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At the time the Pennsylvania Railroad was the largest railroad in the country and the Fraim-Slaymaker Hardware Co. getting their business was a real coup. In 1930 S.R. Slaymaker bought back control of the company and changed the name back to the Slaymaker Lock Co. Eventually his son Samuel C. Slaymaker took over running the company.
John Henry Marshall (January 19, 1841 – December 23, 1913) was an American politician from Pennsylvania. He served as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives , representing Chester County from 1895 to 1898.