CONTEMPT SENTENCES ARE STAYED IN ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH FREE PRESS CASE
Contempt Sentences Are Stayed In St. Louis Post-Dispatch Free Press Case Supreme Court To Rule In Action Involving Right to Criticize ST. LOUIS. Mo.—Fines and Jail sentences against two members...
...His decision said that the Fitzpatrick cartoon and the editorials "tend to bring the court into disrepute, contumely and contempt, and to create widespread disregard for its authority...
...while in Hammond the figure is $3,200 and in Chicago...
...of Opp, Ala...
...He pointed crt that scores of skilled machinists, torlmnkers...
...The postal workers don't get too much, the teachers argue...
...Rowe also fined the Post-Dispatch Publishing Co...
...The Paterson pact was restricted to the locality and the CIO wili not discontinue its organiza:ion of building trades workers throughout the state, said a statement rdopted at the council's quar.erly meeting...
...Messengers, watchmen and laborers employed in the postal service start at $1,500...
...2,000...
...d'e makers and other journeymen had turned to truck driving beraure they could not find jobs elsewhere...
...If the chief executive will send me the names nt the industrialists who need skilled labor, I'll furnl.'h them with all they want...
...Wage & Hour Law Gets 'Green Light' WASHINGTON, D. C. — Judicial approval of adminis;rative power to issue wage orders gives the green light to the wage-hour division in establishing minimum wage rates, industry as directed by congress, administrator Philip B. Fleming said here...
...The circuit court of appeals for the fifth circuit denied the plea, of the Opp Cotton Mills...
...The newspaper ridiculed Rowe for dismissing criminal charges against Intl...
...Mo.—Fines and Jail sentences against two members of The St...
...Indiana INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.—The Indianapolis Teachers Union (AFL) is campaigning to bring teachers' pay closer to the scale for other government employes...
...John J. Etan...
...Point is that men and women in the educational system get too little...
...New Jersey TRENTON...
...The issue will be carried to the supreme court of Missouri...
...N. J.—The State Industrial Union council has denied newspaper reports that a statewide AFL-CIO pact was pending as a result of the AFL-CIO nonaggression treaty recently worked out in Paterson...
...Georgia...
...Louis Post-Dispatch editorial staff for contempt of court were stayed last week by the Missouri supreme court...
...About 20.000 Connecticut resident* are on WPA...
...cent textile wage order be set aside...
...Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes (AFL) and Edward M. (Putty Nose) Brady, a member of the state legislature...
...and other mills located in Alabama...
...Ta'a said...
...The teachers point out that starling pay for a letter carrier is $1,700, while about 600 local teachers get less...
...The sentences were imposed on Ralph Coghlan, editorial page editor, who drew 20 days and a $200 fine, and on Daniel R. Fitzpalrick, cartoonist, who was fined $100 and ordered to serve 10 days...
...The Republican governor's recent statement that there was an acute ; shcr:age of skilled labor was vigorously denied by Rudolph Tata of Water-) bury, organizer of the International Brothers of Teamsters...
...PASS THIS PAPER ON It Will Win New Readers Connecticut ' HARTFORD, Conn.—Gov...
...Another circuit court judge, Ernest F. Oakley, found in a civil action that Brady had received $10,000 from theater owners as a bribe to block a wage boost, and that he had turned the money over to Nick...
...Vice Pres...
...John P. Nick of the Intl...
...Editor Joseph Pulitzer said that "the Post-Dispatch regards this contempt proceeding as an attack upon the freedom of the press and upon this newspaper's constitutional rights...
...State WPA Administrator Vincent J. Sullivan slid the present decline in employment had been so rcpid that applications for WPA jobs had doubled ard there were 26.000 applications for unemployment compensation...
...We are of the opinion that negotiations between the AFL on a statewide basis would bear no fruit," Ihe council remarked...
...Raymond ' E. Baldwin's much touted "business ¦ recovery" program in Connecticut is 1 being made to look ridiculous by labor j and WPA officials...
...Mississippi...
...We are convinced that the rank and file of the AFL want unity, but that William Green will not permit those working under him to cooperate with CIO unions...
...Louisiana and Texas that the 32...
...The punishment had been ordered earlier on the same day by Circuit Court Judge Thomas J. Rowe, who had been editorially attacked on March 5 and 6 In the Post-Dispatch for a "burlesque of justice...
...Yet business conditions in Indiana are approaching the highs of 1928 and 1929, and the city tax rate is comparatively low...
...3,800...
...The maximum for classroom teachers in Indians polis is only $7 above the $2,672 national average for high school teachers...
...Chauffeurs, Stablemen and Helpers (AFL...
...The newspaper reprinted the editorials and cartoon in its issue of April 3, along with a front-page story under a 4-column heading on Rowe's decision...
...secretary of the Connecticut State Federation of Labor, and Joseph M. Tone, former state labor commissioner, also ridiculed the ballyhoo being reela^eri by the State Development commission...
...In Indianapolis the lop pay for classroom teachers is only S2.679...
...The order increased uie hourly rate of about 175.000 textile workers on Oct, 24 last...
Vol. 10 • April 1940 • No. 15
