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ee i As Pegler Sees It: ten Magee Judge Reverses | Himself and Law ¢ wr, Hellasan— Miss Gandy_—— By yeSturock Pegler / . (NY Journal American, July —]——aaa CO The ?upreme ¥ a union has no right to picket an employer to force him to drive his workers into the union. By bitter coincidence, the majority opinion in this case was written by Felix Frankfurter, who wrote exactly the opposite in the notorious Cafeteria case in 193, Briefly, a union picketed a cafeteria run entirely by members of a family who owned it and had no employes outside the family. In many cases affecting small enterprises, unions were demanding that the family members refrain from working in their own employ and put on outsiders dispatched from the union halls, Speaking for the court in 1943, Frankfurter admitted that the pickets told lies about the cafeteria, Yevertheleas, he had the cold gail to assert that the pickets were guilty of no wrong in lying about the cafeteria and the persons who owned ity For support of this decision, Frankfurter relied bn the admitted fact that unions had a right to "state their case" and to "make known the facts," However, in one of those precedents the decision also provided that the slogans and outeries be "$ruthful." Yo justify all this corruption, Frank- — furter, and the Supreme Court, held that it was wrong to deny "free speech in the future" because of “isolated incidents of abuse" in the previous record of that picketeline., For a long time, this nasty doctrine deterred” CA - SJE GE -tt lawyers for injured American individuals and firms fron seeking relief in Junior courts, Now it is reversed until further noticgNor's ReTOR DUD AUT 1A ORF SAM 1440n7 oz |