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Page 4 COPY OF A LETTER TO JUDGE FELL. FRANKFURTER ge mo aa , Hotel Frodrio Koneos City, Missouri ‘Decombor 15, 1943 ages Felix Fronkfurter, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Washington, De ‘Ge Dear ‘Sire This ta my earnest request that you resign at once your place os on Assvaiate Justisa of the Suprema ‘Court of tho United States, . Your opinions and influence ‘as a tember of the High Court here caused anxiety: and alarm. to many millions of citizens, and there is inoreasing resentuont against your, dootrings and decisions all over the country. |... The address of President Frank J, Hogan of the American Bar Association, in San Fransisas, on July 10th, 1939, with which you sre, of course, familiar, 4s mado a part of this letter. You scan find it in the August number, 1939, of the Journal of the American Bor Association, Since then, your decisions have been in- creasingly bad, because they have been flacrent misinterprotations both of the Stat- utes of the Congreas and of the Constitution of the United States, Some of them are as follows: 1, You have held in the notorious Carpenters’ case that any group, claiming to be a labor union, is entitled to libel an honest firm and ruin its business, In that onse, you held thet the Carpenters! Union was justified. You . held also, a union justifioa in promulgating lies egainst the Anheusor-3useh Brow ing Company of St. Louis, although there was no dispute between it and the Union, 2 Lately, you have held that a group of men who started ao restaurant, doing oll the work themselves, could be lawfully picketed on the ground that 1t was unfsir to the said labor wion, . - 3. In March, 1942, you concurred with the decision of | tha tnen Associate Justice, James Fyt@yenes, in the oase of the United States vs. Tecmsters' Union of New York City, that members of the said labor union violated no Federal law, although they had forced with pistols a dairy farmer, driving hie ow truek to pay them $8.41, before he was permitted to drive his truck Ante Now York City for the delivery of his daily load of milk, : Chief Justice Harlan Fewdjone dejlared that you and the five other justices who made this notorious, outrageous decision, had made "common law robbery an innooent ~~, pastime," Your course, as Justice of the Supreme Court, has alarmed and angered the best gitizens of thie nation. It has also aroused the anxiety of many men serving in tho armed forces, who are fearing that, while they are risking their lives and giving thoir lives for the defense of human freedoms all arowd the world, you are - using your power in this cowtry to destroy them here. This letter and your answer will be relensed to the press. thanking you for a serious considration of this request and for a prompt answer as to your decision to it, I om . ‘ very truly yours, ALE Se Tulsa, Oklehoma coma League ag am, : Nazism and Fascism. FOTE: This ietter. has been sont three times to Judge Frankfurters He has not re- plied. On a recent visit to Washington, I asked to talk with him about its contents, but his secretary refused to admit me to his august presence, informing me that he would not talk with ms about this matter. LABOR UNIONS TAXING THE RIGHT TO WORK Since the war began, labor unions, with the connivance of the Roosevelt Administration, have not allowed workmen, who did not belong to unions to work 1