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Washington, D. C. (ILNS). —Or
ganized labor's right to picket was
upheld in two emphatically worded
decisions by the Supreme Court on
Alabama and California anti-picket
ing laws.
The court declared the two laws
unconstitutional on the ground they
violated fundamental guarantees of
free speech and free press.
Justice Murphy, newest member of
the court, wrote the two opinions.
Justice McReynolds, die-hard conserv
ative, was the only dissenter.
"The safeguarding of these rights
to the end that men may speak as
they think on matters vital to them
and that falsehoods may be exposed
through the processes of education
and discussion is essential to free
government," Justice Murphy said in
his opinion on the appeal of Byron
Thornhill, a union member, from an
Alabama state law.
Peaceful Picketing Upheld
Peaceful picketing is a means of
disseminating information "within
that area of free discussion that is
guaranteed by the Constitution,"
Murphy said. The rights of labor on
the picket line might be compared, he
added, to the property rights and
business rights of employers and must
be protected as carefully.
The Alabama case involved picket
ing of a company in Tuscaloosa
County. Thornhill, president of an
A. F. of L. union of creosoters, asked
a non-union worker not to return to
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Anti-Picketing Laws Land in Ash Can as Court Declares
Two Laws Unconstitutional—Rights of Labor on
Picket Lines Compared to Property Rights.
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Labor's Right To Picket Peacefully
trongly Upheld In Two Decisions
Given By Nation's Highest Court
work during a strike. It was agreed
the picketing was peaceful but the
Alabama courts sustained the law
under which Thornhill was convicted
of "loitering and picketing."
Labor Supported Appeals
In the California case John Carlson,
a C. 1.0. member, was convicted
after carrying a banner before a
tunnel project.
Appeals by the two men have been
supported by organized labor. Joseph
A. Padway, general counsel of the
A. F. of L., recently appeared for
Thornhill, while Lee Pressman, gen
eral counsel of the C. I. 0., spoke for
Carlson. Both attorneys fought the
contentions that prohibition of pick
eting was a correct use of police
power.
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Justice Murphy felt that the Ala
bama and California cases were so
much alike that only one needed ex
haustive comment. He chose the
Thornhill, or Alabama, case.
The Alabama law, Justic Murphy
commented, had been construed by
the state courts to stop one man, from
walking slowly and peacefully along
with a sign.
"Area of Free Discussion"
"In the circumstances of our times
the dissemination of information con
cerning the facts of a labor union
dispute must be regarded as within
that area of free discussion that is
guaranteed by the Constitution," he
asserted. "It is recognized now that
satisfactory hours and wages and
working conditions in industry and a
bargaining position which makes
these possible have an importance
which is not less than the intei-ests
of those in the business or industry
directly concerned.
"The health of the present genera
tion and of those as yet unborn may
depend on these matters, and the
practices in a single factory may have
economic repercussions upon a whole
region and affect widespread systems
of marketing."
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York State Federation of Labor is
actively supporting the Norton bill
for amendment of the National Labor
Relations Act and is asking all mem
bers of Congress from this state to
back the measure, Thomas J. Lyons,
president of the state body, an
nounced.
Calling the amendments "reason
able, intelligent and necessary," Pres
ident Lyons at the same time at
tacked the proposed Smith amend
ments as "designed to rip out the
heart of the Wagner Act." He also
assailed John L. Lewis for opposing
the Norton amendments.
A. F.L. OPPOSES AIR
BOARD'SABOLITION
Washington, D. C.—President Green
of the American Federation of Labor
sent a special appeal to all Represent
atives and Senators to "set aside"
President Roosevelt's reorganization
plan No. 4 which proposes to abolish
the Air Safety Board and place the
Civil Aeronautics Authority under the
Department of Commerce.
Joining the A.«»F.
of L. with the
Air Line Pilots' Association in op'
posing the abolition of the Safety
Board, Mr. Green emphasized the tre
mendously "high death rate of the
pilots and their passengers" during
the period between the late '20's and
1938 when "473 lives were lost, of
which 146 were air line pilots."
Since the establishment of the Air
Safety Board in 1938 "it is a dif
ferent story," he said. "Instead of
blazing headlines telling of another
terrible air crash involving wanton
destruction of human life, only a
short time ago we saw the headlines
'World's Air Safety Record Estab
lished.' During the last twelve
months America's air line pilots flew
87,325,145 plane miles and carried
2,028,817 passengers without a single
fatality. Why not leave well enough
alone
Industrialist Urges
Dealing With Unions
Philadelphia, Pa. More than 400
industrialists and members of the
Chamber of Commerce were urged to
"deal with a union" by William
Blatt, president of SKF Industries,
Inc., and chairman of the board of
the American Management Associa
tion.
"The idea of organized labor is
sound," he said. "Collective bargain
ing as a guarantee to labor is here
to stay. The Wagner Act may be
modified in some respects but its
main features will be retained,
don't get nearly as worried about the
act as some people, for in the long
run the right will come out."
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NEW YORK FACTORY
EMPLOYMENT RISES
Albany, N. Y. (ILNS). More
workers were employed by New York
state factories in the first quarter of
1940 than in the corresponding period
of any year since 1930, Industrial
Commissioner Frieda S. Miller re
ports. There were about 11 per cent
more factory workers employed in
the first three months of this year
than in the similar period of 1939.
Compared with the last quarter of
1939, the peak period of the last
decade, there was a net loss during
the first quarter of 1940 of only one
half of one per cent in total employ
ment.
In March, 1940, there were 0.3 per
cent more workers employed than in
February. Payrolls rose 2.2 per cent
during the same period These in
creases were not as good as the aver
age February to March changes over
the last 25 years, which indicate gains
of 0.9 per cent in employment and of
2.9 per cent in payrolls.
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who seems to be in good health may
actually have tuberculosis.
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worker's primary insurance payment,
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Widow's Payments
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payment. If she is not age 65 at the
time of his death, she will become
eligible when she reaches age 65.
Thus, if the worker's primary in
surance payment is $30 a month, his
wife, at age 65, receives $15 and there
would be $45 a month for the two.
At the husband's death, his widow
would receive $22.50 per month.
If a wife or a widow has worked
on a job covered by the law, and can
qualify at age 65 for insurance pay
ments of her own which are greater
than what she would receive on ac
count of her husband's earnings, she
will get the larger amount.
Allowances for Children
If the worker dies fully or cur
rently insured, leaving a widow under
65 years of age with one or more
young children in her care, the widow
would receive her three-fourths of the
husband's primary insurance payment
until the youngest child is 16, or 18
if still in school, and each child up to
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