Oversight of Operating Engineers, 1984: Hearings Before the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, Second Session, on Review of Allegations of Corruption in the International Union of Operating Engineers, Involving Local 406 in Lake Charles, La., and Local 18 in Cleveland and Toledo, Ohio

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Page 163 - ... the labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce. Nothing contained in the antitrust laws shall be construed to forbid the existence and operation of labor, agricultural, or horticultural organizations, instituted for the purposes of mutual help, and not having capital stock or conducted for profit, or to forbid or restrain individual members of such organizations from lawfully carrying out the legitimate objects thereof; nor shall such organizations, or the members thereof,...
Page 39 - ... be punished by a fine of not more than $5,000 or imprisonment for not more than twelve months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Page 163 - Commerce undoubtedly is traffic but it is something more, it is intercourse. It describes the commercial intercourse between nations, and parts of nations, in all its branches, and is regulated by prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse.
Page 157 - extortion" means the obtaining of property from another, with his consent, induced by wrongful use of actual or threatened force, violence, or fear, or under color of official right.
Page 157 - Whoever in any way or degree obstructs, delays, or affects commerce or the movement of any article or commodity in commerce, by robbery or extortion...
Page 162 - robbery" means the unlawful taking or obtaining of personal property from the person or in the presence of another, against his will, by means of actual or threatened force, or violence, or fear of injury, immediate or future, to his person or property, or property in his custody or possession, or the person or property of a relative or member of his family or of anyone in his company at the time of the taking or obtaining. (2) The term "extortion...
Page 24 - National Labor Relations Board. Washington, DC 20570 and a copy with me. This appeal must contain a complete statement setting forth the facts and reasons upon which it is based. The...
Page 162 - ... article or commodity in commerce, by robbery or extortion or attempts or conspires so to do, or commits or threatens physical violence to any person or property in furtherance of a plan or purpose to do anything in violation of this section shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both. "(b) As used in this section — "(2) The term 'extortion...
Page 83 - The committee will stand in recess until 1 pm (Thereupon, at 12 noon, the committee recessed, to reconvene at 1 pm, the same day.) AFTERNOON SESSION— FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1957 (Committee members present: Representatives Moulder and Scherer.) Mr.
Page 39 - ... it is attached hereto or its absence is explained in an attached statement, no note or other negotiable instrument has been received for the account or any part of it. 6. No judgment has been rendered on the claim except.

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