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‘Sit-Down Strike Illegal, Supreme Court . Declares; | NLRB ILRB Loses Three T. ests 6-07 —4\y2 Sone TUR OaSEE ORO DT Justices Black and Reed Dissent; Orders to Rebire Workers ssolved By GKESLY MANLY Chicago Tribune Press Service The United States Supreme Court yesterday dealt the National Labor Relations Board three smashing blows in the most far- reaching series of Wagner act rul- ings since the law Itself was up held in April, 1937. In an opinion by Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, the court delivered its first condemnation of the sitdown strike and set aside an order of the board requiring the Fansteel Metallurgical Corpo- ration, of North Chicago, to reirk state with back pay 92 C.1.0. union members who participated in the seizure of thé company’s pianis in February, 1937. ‘High-Handed Proceeding’ The court denounced the sit- down strike as “a high-handed pro- ceeding without shadow of legal Tight.” Such conduct on the part of the strikers, the court held, was ample cause for their dischgrge. “To fustify much conduct be cause of the existence of ¢ labor dispute or of an unfair labo, prac tice,” said the court, “would be ta put ® premium on resort to force instead legal remedies and to subvert the principles of law and order which lie at the foundations of society.” er: After thus repudiating the labor board's condonation of violence, the court refused to review « crim- fal case growing out of the C.1.0. aitdown strike in the Fansteel aaAtT 7 - ‘ ree Fk /\