32:23-2 - Conditions of employment - New Jersey Statutes

32:23-2.  Conditions of employment
    The States of New Jersey and New York hereby find and declare that the conditions under which waterfront labor is employed within the Port of New York  district are depressing and degrading to such labor, resulting from the lack of  any systematic method of hiring, the lack of adequate information as to the  availability of employment, corrupt hiring practices and the fact that persons  conducting such hiring are frequently criminals and persons notoriously lacking  in moral character and integrity and neither responsive or responsible to the  employers nor to the uncoerced will of the majority of the members of the labor  organizations of the employees;  that as a result waterfront laborers suffer  from irregularity of employment, fear and insecurity, inadequate earnings, an  unduly high accident rate, subjection to borrowing at usurious rates of  interest, exploitation and extortion as the price of securing employment and a  loss of respect for the law;  that not only does there result a destruction of the dignity of an important segment of American labor, but a direct encouragement of crime which imposes a levy of greatly increased costs on food,  fuel and other necessaries handled in and through the Port of New York  district.

     L.1953, c. 202, p. 1512, Part I, s. 1, Art. I, par. 1.