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Supreme Court — Part 22
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pbyious errects-could ensié,” The family =
have to pay Initiation fees and dues 4
ership and‘the union workers sent te:
could insult their customers and, in .
rove od emtaanai the food, break dishes ;
, and otherwise sz’ motes Sig the business. Communtate were :
ely to put a Hr busin
minute cata j the ‘ eerste meen aS e,
Pes to ‘Jantity “a Wrong™-
Speaking for tHe court in 1943, Ane
ted that the pickets told Hes about - the ‘eafeteria.
Neverthéleas, he had the cold gall to assert that the”
pitkets wére guilty of n@ wrong in lying about the cafe-;
; teria and the persons who owned it. For support of this |
r decision which thus became ‘the law of the Isnd, Frank. ' i
furter, who planted Alger Hiss ‘in the ‘Washington laby- ;
rinth, relied on'the admitted fact. that unions had ~
Se ot ae ee ee
Tignt 16 ‘Btate their case” and ta “make, ‘known, thie ©
facts.”. ~
However, in one of those. ‘precedents, by whictt
Frankfurter tried-to justify an. indorsement of "as
Melons, vicious, harmful slanders against innocent vic-'
tims, the decision also provided that the siogans and
outcries must be “truthful.” In the Cafeteria case,
resort to Hes was not denied, But Frankfurter wrote’
that “to use loose language or undefined slogans that,
are part of the conventional give and take in our c="
clst’ —1s not to. falsify facts.” 0%: a aon)
. . Of course these Hes ‘were clearly in dad to de-
stroy an honest enterprise of an American working
family and that was absolutely clear to al! the brutal
enemies of the American morality. And they dia fals~
ify the facts. ~ ‘
, All the New York courts had held that it was a tie!
to say that the owners were “unfair” to organized Idbor,
because the cafeteria had no employees; to say that.
the cafeteria served bad food and to sey that customers:
by thelr patronage alded “the cause of fascism.” The!
pickets lied further, according to the New York courta,!
in representing “that a strike was in progress.*--- ;
To justify all this corruption, Frankfurter, and the
Supreme Court of the United States, held that it wast
wrong to deny “free speech. in the future” because ‘of:
“Isolated incidents of abuse” in the previous record of '
that picket-itne, . . : a
The effect which the union and the court desired +
was to compel the cafeteria to hire union members, ~
For a long time, this nasty doctrine deterred law-
yers for injured American individuals and firms from
| seeking relief in junior courte. :
ene
ee a he
1 Judge Reverses |
Hinself and Law
‘By WESTBROOK PECLER .
j
i
1 EME T has clamped another toehold
{Ts pes furan m itself in hdldifig tat a union has no right to
pick
loyer to foreé him to drive his workers
picket an emp ee lowér court decided that Local 695
} of the r tten Teamsters union was trying to make the
Sane et a Wisconsin gravel pit do the unton’s dirty
work, Wisconsin law forbids this as “coercion.” The
muddy Federal Taft-Hartiey Law comes to the same
) natnt by relieving employers of the legal obiigation |
yrersas auesw
" {mposed by the old Wagner Act: to help the union.
to snare the employees...
i ; By bitter coincidence, the: majority opinion in this’
eo
ween
_ Now it is reversed until further notice, at
‘case was written by Felix Frankfurter, who wrote ex-,
be Briefly,’ a union picketed a ‘cateteria ruh entirely *
small “énterprises, loosely. known as “Mon and Pop*' O A 4 a g 4 an - LF _
, actly the opposite in the notorious Gateteria cae _
by members of a family who. ,ewned it and had ne * :
employees outside the family, tn many cases affecting .
* re demanding that the family mem- « =D
eee ee eee wonting in thelr own employ and pw ' Om RRCORDED | ie CUPPING Y, (6 Fe7
du putelifers dispatch 4 from 1 JUL DATED — _— Vig,
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