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a a y DB WD - Supreme Court Upholds Unions, Outle ws State ‘Regulation’ / By Federated Pree WASHINGTON, Z ab 11 —¥iate laws regulating! unions must not conflict with the provisions of!” bor Relations Act giving workers the| ¥ t to bargain ‘collectively through representatives of their | o: 1 choosing, the U.S. Supreme Court held in a major de- Cision today. The court acted ing union organizers and busines: send LT on the Floridd statute requir- agents to register with a state | 23, United Association of Journey- | board and also calling on 1ocaj/| oem Plumbers (AFL) was restrained | unions to Ble financial reports and |>Y Florids from‘ operating until he lists of their officers, Associate Justice Hugo Black read the majority decision with Justices Felix Frankfurter and Owen J. Roberts dissenting while Chief a | tice Harlan Stone dissented in part. | Stone agreed with the majority that the Florida provision requiring the licensing of business agents and orgenizers by a board that passes upon their qualifications, morals and citizenship was in direct con- | flict with the Federal labor law. Mut Stone dissented from the Dajority opinion thet the require- megs that boral unions” file“Ynan- reports and other data in irrecencilahle eonflict with the lective barguining relations of ‘the Wagner Act. Black reviewed the case In which husiness agent Leo H. Hill of Local 7 | 5 6 JUN 27 1945 and the iocal complied with the : state law. The Florida Supreme Court up- held the convittion of Hill and the local, and Black found that fee state law had been “so cons’ 7 core eames eer se pees gar ax”’s Sue ly toad. selected representative are SE Ce ww Noreen ol lap ed from functioning as collec bargaining agents, or in any other, capacity, except upon conditions, fixed by Florida.” : Black said that the declared’ E applied that the union an purpose of the Wagner Act “is to, encourage collective bargaining, and to protect the ‘full freedom’ of. workers in the selection of pargain- ing representatives of their own choice,” ' The majority of the court sald that the Florida law substituted Plorida's judgment for the work- ers’ judgment as to the selection of * bargaining agent. wr to the Lcensing of the local ‘ound that she-permity a | the statute, prohibit- DAILY WORKER Date easy 57 Clipped pan Seat of Government & / wee A. Ae