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heed — §$tates’ Union Restrictive Laws to Be Fought in Highest Court By FRED W. PERKINS ivity in union-restrictive legislation is sure this winter on Capitol Hill, even tho there is no wertainty that Congress will follow thru on broad hints from the War Labor Board that , nike preventatives may become necessary, . ; tan the plaza from the Capitol is the marble home of the Supreme Court, and in that dis- tinguished edifice will be staged onejor more legal battles to knock out, on the ground o | Viola- ‘ tion of the Federai Constitution, th union-regulatory laws recently placed on the books of Colo- | yado, Kansas, Texas, Ajabama, Florida, Nortt( Dakota and Idaho. ' First action before the (Supreme* , tutional | Sra ateris mich «| Award for Missing Airman - More Bans} - nin Congress We** We Ufa 3/y 3] Va | | | Thomas, president of the United Auto- mobile Workers (CIO), succeeded in having himself arrested thru challeng- . ing in a public speech that state's re- ‘ . quirement of a Heense for solicitors of at t union memberships, An appeal from the Texas Supreme Court is now being perfected by Lee Pressman and Fugens Basses, BAHIA. Luuuocs ald assistant General counsel respectively of the OIO, and is to be filed within 16 days, REPLY ON RECENT RULING The CIO. lawyers, aecording to Mr. Pressman, will base an important part of their case on the Supreme Court's | refusal on Oct. 18 to review a lower | court decision which had held that od the National Labor Relations Act does : he not forbid an employer from using the ane : tonstitutional right of free speech in! -= giving his employes his views on} whether they should vote for union yepresentation. ; “ee The free speech issue, Mr. Pressman | said, is alsa the basis of the Thomas | case in Texas. The rule must work | ny ‘ both ways, he asserted, : * Litigation of the same sort ts on! also in Colorado, where some of the! state law restricting union activity has: —_—— _ fer F - ~— been declared unconstitutional by a. a Jower state court, and the question is a now on appeal to the state Supreme gressignal Medal ‘of ]) Court. This case, like those invalying a a. all cther state statutes which unionists; Hofer to the family o . Jac in acon sinck by took . a assert are discriminatory against them, part in the famous rald ove . st\summe ~~ é is thought likely to come to Washing- : ~ ton before it is finally settled, unless| father, Arthur Jerstad, recelves the award ag the mother and sister Jook the Supreme Court issues a blanket decision to settle the question on a], nation-wide basis. 10 CARRY ON FIGHT ‘ Union leaders are Preparing to com- —_ bat threatened attempts at anti-union i legislation In other states where legis- latures meet this winter. Mr’ Pregs- ff Christ lan- (lmerican Association pn S009 EY fA - eh man said that “the organization that 8 sponsored these bills is not confinin : itself ta these even states.” He ch d that the state laws were the result of a general campaign by the “Christian Americans,” which he sai was directed # by Sen. Lee O'Daniel (B., Tex.}, with “plenty of funds ebtained from the oN National Association of Manufacturers and other organizationg of that kind,’ The Christian Americans, sald Mr. Pressman, “ls Just a name for the same group of organizations and people that nes have been fighting us down thru the = ys Ja = a years. They have discovered In a state act the means of overcoming the united strength we can present agains* that kind of legislation before Congress... We are not so strong in some of t particular states, where, they cater tis \ rapping.” im | We