JUDGE'S DECISION IS BIG BLOW AT GOV. HEIL'S ANTI-LABOR LAW
Judge's Decision Is Big Blow At Gov. Heil's Anti-Labor Law Picket Right Is Upheld Despite Legal Shackle Judge Gehrz Refuses Writ In Case Coming Under '39 Catlaw Act MILWAUKEE, Wis.—A blow to all...
...He held in part: •'Picketing, publicity or advertising lot a labor dispute I, in the manner described in these findings, falls squarely within Ihe rule of equity that injunctions do not issue for inconsequential or trivial causes .and particularly when judicial restraint on the liberty of speech or of the press of the right peaceably to assemble, guaranteed by both the I. S. and the "Wisconsin constitutions, is sought...
...Judge Gehrz held, consisted in part of a breach of contract with the Ice Cream and Dairy Drivers Local 22b (AFL) and the company announcement that it would operate on a nonunion basis, despite the unexpired contract...
...Julius Heil...
...Gehne has been regarded as a conservative jurist...
...The new rule became effective or) Apr...
...Pursued a course of conduct naturally calculated to foment industrial strife and to bring about the very condition which led to the commencement of this action...
...It was passed by the reactionary Republican legislature together with other anti-labor legislation...
...The Catlin law prohibits picketing when no labor dispute exists "between the employer and his employes...
...The company wanted the picketing outlawed by an injunction...
...The Agricultural Producers tried to have the State Employment commission exempt some 60,000 agricultural canning and processing workers...
...Heil's Anti-Labor Law Picket Right Is Upheld Despite Legal Shackle Judge Gehrz Refuses Writ In Case Coming Under '39 Catlaw Act MILWAUKEE, Wis.—A blow to all of the recent crop of anti-pickcting laws in various states was struck in the opinion of laborites when Wisconsin circuit judge Gustav G. Gchrz in Milwaukee last week refused to grant an injunction against peaceful picketing under the 1939 Catlin law...
...Denying the injunction Judge Gehrz based his decision against the Catlin law- on both state and federal guarantees of freedom of speech, of the press and of peaceful assembly, following recent liberal decisions of the U. S. supreme court...
...of Milwaukee and in general the anti-union employers...
...Ranchers Set Back On Tax Evasions SACRAMENTO, CaL—An attempt by a group of big ranch owners allied with the Associated Farmers to deprive packing and processing workers of unemployment insurance benefits has bocmeranged...
...Instead, the commission broadened the scope of the act by including under It workers clearing land for agricultural purposes and constructing irrigation works, carpenters, painters, blacksmiths, timekeepers, bookkeepers, clerical workers, watchmen, janitors...
...He added: "All patrolling and advertising was peaceful and without commotion or disorder of any kind...
...103,-535 'of the Catlin act) then they constitute peaceful picketing and patrolling...
...Contract Breach The company conduct...
...This gives his ruling added significance since it may mean the overthrow of other statutory shackles on ordinary labor activity enacted by the 1939 legislature under the whip of Gov...
...He further found the company responsible for the dispute, as the corporation and its officers, he said...
...cooks and gardeners, even though they are employed by a farm owner or tenant...
...The picketing tactics of the union, the judge said, "comprised advertising . . . carried on by means of moving or stationary . . . placarded individuals and should be, and as a matter of fact, are found to have been fair persuasion...
...and Construction Trades Council AFL) and the entire Wisconsin labor movement...
...AFL Picket Line The losers were specifically the New Hostess Ice Cream Co...
...If the display and carrying about of canvas apron signs by individuals . . . in the manner described are to be deemed picketing under Sec...
...1. Ball Players Get Jobless Benefits BLNGHAMTON, N. Y. — Profcs-aional baseball players will continue to receive unemployment insurance benefits, Indutrial Commissioner Frieda S. Miller said in a letter to the Binghamton Press...
...The victors in the injunction proceeding were the Milwaukee Bldg...
...The free use of streets and entrances was not in-terefred with...
...The AFL had been picketing the new-plant of the ice cream concern and also its customers...
...The ruling included a finding that radio announcements of the fact that the company was unfair to organized labor were "fair persuasion...
...The judge had found that the employes were not molested and that comparatively little business loss or damage had been suffered by the company...
Vol. 10 • April 1940 • No. 15
