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Show PICKETING LEGAL, MTJECU Orderly Patrol Is Labor's i i Rifi'lit, Judge Holds in j Cafe Case. ! Within restrictions Imposed by the court, . pi. ket ini; of t he Sparcy .Meh.se eul'e, a.uust wliich an injunction was sought. , tna' bo eontlmietl umler t!ie f tali statute, aeeordms; lo a viecilou nlven ye.ster.ltiy by .luvb;e i C. llvans of the Third district court in Hie ca.so of tlie Sparey Meliso eompauv aaitiht the Culinury allianeo, !c.il M... Ttie court interpreted the statute stat-ute to allow of peaceful pU'ketinii. not calculated to cause a disturbance or in- , u "' ci v with p. 1 1 ions. ! The decision is accompanied bv a court , order requiring that tho plokets'.shall re-I'Kim re-I'Kim at :lie curb lino and sttall not et i.uther than two feet from it in the di-i di-i rectum ot the front of the cafe. Tho or-j or-j do:- further imposes the regulation that pickets must not shout or efeato any dis-j dis-j turtunce. must not direct tlieir remarks i directly to persons entering or leuvlnu tht j cafe, and must stop picketing whenevor i j a c:-od iatlierp. i The picket un; In the case beforn tho 1 court, the Uoomion finds, was shown by : the evidence lo have been peacefully con-1 ducted :rom about the time of ihe strike in .May to August I;pi, after winch, ( acv.rdin; to the finding of the court. It j hecan to take on the nppcaranco of fre-ouent fre-ouent disturbance. The decision reviews :l-e testimony of officei-s (f the Culinary a ilia me to t he effect that they had always al-ways ad iscd against violem'e or coercive measures, and that they were instrumental in dispersing the crowd that Kathered In trout o: the cafe on Labor day. With re yard to urmtmeuts of counsel for the p!ai::t?:'i' that picketing was uidawful because of the tendency of disturbance I and not. anl reviewimr tho authorities and leases e.tel, the court points out that, except ex-cept in the case of Arizima, Ctah is the j only stato having a statute directly eover-j eover-j iuir tho situation. The court concludes !toat the intent of the statute must be that peaceful piokotim; is a r it; of organized !ab-:-. just as d orderly picketing would I bo e-p tally an infringement of the rihta of others. |