From Canadian movie "Net Worth". In the 1950s the NHL controlled the players, their payments, their pensions. After a teammate dies in poverty because he couldn't access his pension, Lindsay organises a league-wide player assocation (not a union, they insist, at first)
The association's lawyer soon finds the NHL has a catch-22 position on a supposed bylaw prohibiting the players from seeing their own contracts and pension information.
The association's lawyer soon finds the NHL has a catch-22 position on a supposed bylaw prohibiting the players from seeing their own contracts and pension information.
Ted Lindsay | What bylaws? I've been in the league for 12 years I've never seen no bylaws! |
They're right here [brandishes a book] | |
Milton Mound | May I see them please? |
They're confidential | |
Milton Mound | How can a bylaw be confidential? |
Only the governors are privy to them. It says so right here in the bylaws | |
Milton Mound | Well you show me where it says that. |
You're prohibited from seeing the bylaws. It says so in the bylaw! |