Salt Lake Tribune | 1906-01-04 | Page 9 | Has Right to Contract

HAS RIGHT TO CONTRACT Supreme Court Reverses Decision in Alleged Coercion Case. NEW YORK. Jan 3 In the appellete dl- Islon Of the Supreme court yesterday a decision de-cision was rendered In the case of Harry Marcus, convicted on a charge of coercing Hyrom Sh'-lnbaum to enter Into a written Agreement with the H Marcus Shirt company not to become a memb-r "f any lal-.r or-traiilzation or-traiilzation as a condition of securing employment employ-ment with that concern The Judgment of con- iction la rotroraed and the def. ndant ordered discharged. Declares It Unconstitutional. The court holds that the section of the rer,al code which forbids the making of contracts con-tracts of the kind described, declaring such act as misdemeanor, la unconstitutional It la the duty of the State and the Nation." says th opinion, "to protect every citizen In th xercloe of hi constitutional rights, and So long as the Stat- and Nation Inst. Inability or unwillingness to perform that duty may not le assigned as a Justification for a law mak Ing an exercise of one's constitutional lights n crime " i