JUDICIARY: Supreme Decisions

August at Washington, the U. S. Supreme Court continued last week about its business:

Sleuths. When, in 1925, Wisconsin ruled that private detectives might not detect without state licenses, the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, wounded, cried, "Unconstitutional!" Pinkerton had been planting "shop operatives" in factories to report to employers conditions among employes. Last week the Pinkerton cry was permanently stifled. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Wisconsin law.

Furnace Case. Famed, also aged, the seven-year-old Claire Furnace Co. case last week bobbed up before the U. S. Supreme Court for...

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