RIGHTS OF WORKMEN

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 118, 12 February 1941, Page 8

RIGHTS OF WORKMEN

U.S. Supreme Court Verdict

Against Company

WASHINGTON, February .10.

The Supreme Court refused today to interfere with an order by the Labour Board directing the Ford Company to reinstate a group of employees with back pay and to cease its alleged interference with collective bargaining and the rights of workmen. The Court order requires the Ford Company to cease discouraging membership in the Congress of Industrial Organizations, the Automobile Workers’ Union, or atty other union, to discontinue “threatening, assaulting and beating.” or interfering in any other way with organizing rights of employees. and to reinstate with back pay 23 men whom the board found were discharged for union activity. The Supreme Court also held that Stale Court injunctions against picketing are valid when violence by a union is associated closely with picketing. The ruling was the first by tlie Supreme Court limiting tlfe right of labour to picket. It came in a de cision upholding tin injunction against the Chicago Milk Wagon Drivers’ Union (which is affiliated to the American Federation of Labour) in a dispute with Meadowmoor Dairies, incorporated.