As the Supreme Court closed its term this week, it refused (over the protests of four Justices) to rule on the constitutionality of one hotly argued provision of the Taft-Hartley law. The law, said Justice Stanley Reed, did not specifically prohibit political opinions in union newspapers. Then the court, in a unanimous decision, threw out an indictment against the C.I.O., which campaigned successfully in its News for a Democratic candidate in a Baltimore election last summer. Still unanswered by the court was the larger question: Can unions legally contribute funds directly to a political campaign?
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