Evening star., 1950-10-15
High Court May Act
This Week on Terms
First Big Labor Cases
By Robert K. Welsh

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A State ban on strikes by pub
lie utilities workers. an attack or
secondary boycotts. and claims OF
broader court authority over
NLRB orders may provide the new
terms first big labor issues at Su-
preme Court sessions this week.
Civil rights questions raised in
appeals from Maryland and New
York dominate the docket of
scheduled oral arguments tomor-
row through Friday.
The tribunal, which last Mon
day disposed of more than 800 re-
view petitions and miscellaneous
motions, could cause a lesser le-
gal landslide tomorrow by acting
on many of the 130 requests still
pending. The list constantly
lengthens so that about 900 nor
mally will have filed before ad-
journment next June.
Strike Ruling Possible.
The court may announce tomor-
row whether it will review a lower
court decision upholding a Wis
consin law prohibiting strikes by
public utility company employees.
1t also may grant or reject ap-
peals by the carpenters and the
electrical workers unions from
NLRB findings that they staged
secondary boycotts against build
ing enterprises in Ohio and New
York. The unions challenge val
1dity Of the secondary boycott pro-
vision OF the Taft-Hartley Act.
The Taft Hartley Act comes
up for another test in case to
be argued late this week on ap-
peal by the Government. The
main issue is whether that law
and the Administrative Procedure
Act gave courts greater power to
enforce or reverse NLRB orders.
NLRB told the Pittsburgh
Steamship Co.. operating on the
Great Lakes to stop "discourag-
ing" employe membership in the
C1O maritime union. Lower
courts reversed the boards find
ings as not being supported by
reliable and substantial evidence.
They held that the new laws
authorized broader standards of
review. evidence and procedure
for court consideration of NLRB
moves.
Appeal Delay Expected.
1t Is unlikely that the Supreme
Court will decide until later
in the term whether to review
the convictions of II Communist
Party leaders on charges of con-
spiracy to teach violent overthrow
of the Government. The appeal
reached the court less than a
month ago and the Justice De-
partment filed its answer only a
few days ago.
1t is even more likely that for
several weeks or months the court
will hand down an opinion on
the four loyalty cases it heard
last week. Those were the ap-
peal of Miss Dorothy Bailey from
her dismissal from a Government
job as loyalty risk and of the
Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Com
mittee, the National Council for
American-Soviet Friendship, and
the international Workers Order
against being listed as subversive
under the loyalty program pro-
cedure.
Review Requests Listed.
Among review requests on which
the court might act tomorrow are:
An effort to compel a Miami,
Fla, municipal golf course to per-
NIT Negroes to use the course
daily with whites instead Of only
On Mondays.
An attempt to outlaw an At
ianta City censorship system un-
der which the motion picture
Lost Boundaries" was banned.
City authorities declared that
showing of the film dealing with
q racial problem would adversely
affect the peace, health, morals
and good order Of the CITY,"
A move to set aside a Michigan
court Injunction preventing a
Temple Of Light organization
from holding religious services in
q house it bought from the Ford
family In Detroit. A neighbor-
hood citizens group claimed such
use of the house was contrary to
q property covenant and building
restrictions.
Suit Brought by Broker.
A suit by District real estate
broker, John P. Story, jr., to re-
cover a $4,000 commission in con-
nection with property owned at
Sixteenth and Eye streets NV. in
1945 by the Library of Congress
Trust Fund Board. He contends
he had been authorized to handle
the property but that it later was
sold by the board for 100000 to
Eric Johnston as president of the
Motion Picture Association of
America.