LABOR: Injunction, New Style

Because some judges have abused the power to restrain unions, recent Federal legislation has treated U. S. District judges like problem children. In most labor disputes. Federal injunctions are forbidden by the Norris-LaGuardia Act. The Wagner Act routes , appeals from NLRB decisions direct to U. S. Circuit Courts, forbids lower courts to enjoin the Board, in general assumes that the less District judges have to say about labor cases the better.

Last week, wordy, 80-year-old District Judge Oliver Booth Dickinson of Philadelphia had much to say, thereby made an obscure labor case...

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