Question

(02.06 mc)

study the quote from the adair v. united states supreme court ruling from 1908.

\the right of a person to sell his labor upon such terms as he deems proper is, in essence, the same as the right of the purchaser of labor to prescribe the conditions upon which he will accept such labor from the person offering to sell it...in all such particulars, the employer and the employee have equality of right, and any legislation that disturbs that equality is an arbitrary interference with the liberty of contract which no government can legally justify in a free land.\

which of the following management tactics did this supreme court ruling allow?

• hiring strikebreakers
• yellow dog contracts
• locking out striking workers
• blacklisting former employees

Explanation:

In the 1908 case Adair v. United States, the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional a federal law that banned "yellow-dog contracts" (agreements in which employers made non-membership in a union a condition of employment). The Court ruled that such a ban violated the "liberty of contract" protected by the Fifth Amendment, thereby legally permitting employers to use yellow-dog contracts to prevent workers from unionizing.

Answer:

Yellow dog contracts