to give, from time to time, new expression and greater effect to
modern ideas of self-government.... It follows that any legal
proceeding enforced by public authority, whether sanctioned by
age and custom or newly devised in the discretion of the
legislative power in furtherance of the general public good,
which regards and preserves these principles of liberty and
justice, must be held to be due process of law."[Footnote:
Hurtado _v._ California, 110 United States Reports, 513,
528, 529, 530, 537.]

Many of our State Constitutions specify certain rights as
inherent and indefeasible, and among them that "of acquiring,
possessing, and protecting property." What is property?
American courts have said that it includes the right of every one
to work for others at such wages as he may choose to accept. One
of them, in supporting a decree for an injunction against
combined action by a labor union to deprive non-union men of a
chance to work, by force or intimidation, notwithstanding a
statute abrogating the common law rule making such acts a
criminal conspiracy, has put it thus:

The right to the free use of his hands is the workman's
property, as much as the rich man's right to the undisturbed
income from his factory, houses, and lands. By his work he
earns present subsistence for himself and family. His savings
may result in accumulations which will make him as rich in
houses and lands as his employer. This right of acquiring
property is an inherent, indefeasible right of the workman. To
exercise it, he must have the unrestricted privilege of working
for such employer as he chooses, at such wages as he chooses to