Evening star., 1941-06-01

was reached concerning employment
conditions.
2. Upheld, 5-to-3, Labor Board order
denying an individual plant of a COM
pany the right to select its OWL collective
bargaining representative and requiring
it instead to make joint selection with
other wideiy-separated plants
g. Decided, 6-to-2, that the Labor
Board lacks authority to require COM
pany found guilty of violating the Wag-
ner Act to reimburse governmental
relief agencies for wages paid employees
held to have been deprived of their
regular work.
a. Ruled, 5-to-3, that the Wagner Act
does not authorize the Labor Board Ito
enjoin violations of all the provisions Of
the statute merely because the violation
of one has been found"
Union Officers Escape Trial.
Among the decisions clarifying anti
trust legislation, the one that attracted
greatest attention held that officers Of
a labor union are not subject to trial
under the Sherman Act for "conven-
tional, peaceful activities by union in
controversy with rival union over
certain jobs"
Justice Frankfurter wrote the fve-tc-
two decision which was a blow to tt
Justice Departments antitrust law e
forcement campaign.
The ruling applied specifically
President w. L. Hutcheson and thT'
other officers of the A. F. Of L. Unitc
Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joine
of America. They we're alleged to ha'
! attempted to prevent the Information
Association of 'Machinists from workir
on machinery at Anheuser- Busch, Inc,
! St. Louis beer manufacturer.
| The unionists were said to have callc'
a strike, picketed and instigated
Nationwide boycott against Anheuse.
Busch beer in an effort to compel tt
/ firm to come to terms.
/ Other antitrust opinions held that:
l. Because it is not a person" tt
Federal Government cannot sue fog
! triple damages claimed to result from
| price-fxing by competitors in violation
/ of the Sherman Act. The Government
| had sought this weapon as curb against
/ any price-fxing that developed in con-
| nection with the national defense pro-
! gram.
Injunctions Limited.
2. Provisions of the 1882 Norris-In
/ Guardia Act limiting injunctions granted
! by Federal Courts in labor controversial
must be applied even though a labor
| union was charged with violating the
| Sherman Act
T 3. The antitrust law was violated b.
| agreements of manufacturers of women
! hats and dresses to eliminate style
| piracy" by registering new creations
and penalizing any one copying the Ge-
signs.
Two decisions involving picketing b.
labor unions held that:
| l. A State court may enjoin picketin-
by union if it has been blended with
! violence"
2. A labor organization has the right
! to picket peacefully a business estab-
ishment even though no members of
the union are employed there.
Some of the other major decisions
held that:
l. Negroes travelling from one State
to another are entitled to railroad &C
commodations equal to those furnished
white persons.
2. Earl Browder, 1910 presidential
nominee of the Communist party, was
guilty of wilfully using a passport OBJ
tained by false statements. He had
been sentenced to four years imprison-
ment and fined $4,000.
8. Two men we're guilty of violating
Federal anti-spy legislation by obtaining
information from naval intelligence files
at San Pedro, Calf. The men were
Hafls Salich, Russian-born naturalized
American who was employed by naval
intelligence, and Mikhail Nicholas Gorin,
a Soviet citizen employed by a Los
Angeles tourist company.
A. Passage of the 1910 Federal law re-
/ quiring registration of aliens invalidated
1889 Pennsylvania alien registration
statute because the Federal power in
this field was superior to that of the
| States