Eddy, Arthur Jerome: The new competition: an examination of the conditions underlying the radical change that is taking place in the commercial and industrial world ; the change from a competitive to a cooperative basis (New York [u.a.], 1912)

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THE NEW COMPETITION

is contrary to conscientious and intelligent conviction and
therefore wrong; they have no more right to do it than they
have to organize a mob and destroy homes.
Courts may be powerless, may feel compelled to hold
men have the legal right to strike and paralyze industry
and commerce, but in their reasoning they should care-
fully distinguish between a legal right, which is a very
human and uncertain proposition, and the purer, higher,
more abstract theory of right which, law or no law, must
finally guide men in all their actions and relations.