What we said 80 years ago: Labor's victory
The following State Journal editorial was published on March 10, 1932:
Labor has scored a great victory in the passage by both the United States Senate and the House of Representatives of bills limiting the powers of federal courts in strike injunction proceedings and abolishing the so-called "yellow dog contracts." While the Senate and House measures are not exactly similar, they are so nearly alike that the adoption of a measure containing the main features ... is assured. That the bill finally passed will become a law through President Hoover's signature is predicted.
The legislation, besides limiting the causes for federal injunctions against labor organizations, provides that contempt prosecutions growing out of the alleged violation of the injunctions shall be tried by juries and that when the defendant or defendants so request the judge in whose jurisdiction the claimed contempt was committed cannot preside at the trial.
The prohibition against "yellow dog contracts" follows the lines of the Wisconsin statute adopted during the administration of Governor Kohler, this state having been the first to pass such legislation. It renders invalid contracts binding employees not to become members of labor organizations. Both the limitations against extraordinary powers in the courts for the issuance of injunctions against labor leaders during the stress of labor disputes and the abolition of "yellow dog contracts" will meet the approval of a large majority of the voters of this country.
The proposals of the bills afford legislation to which the people are entitled.
My, how things have changed.
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