Show LABOR OPPOSES I OKEH ot OF JUDGE WASHINGTON Feb 9 A k IP A pro pro- test cst R against confirmation of James JamesH H H. Wilkerson on of Chicago as circuit judge fudge on the grounds of blind par- par partisanship and antagonism to labor unions was filed with a senate judiciary judiciary judi- judi ciary iary subcommittee today by organ organ- i zed labor Wilkerson's nomination was op- op opposed opposed posed by Donald R R. coun coun- sel el for the Railway Labor Executives' Executives ion filed four tour arguments against confirmation They contended that hat As a practicing lawyer he was very active in prosecuting injunction suits against labor organizations and played a prominent part in Illinois in limit limit- limiting ing ig and destroying through judge made law the rights of labor to or- or anize That as a United States district judge he exhibited in in case after case a bias and against labor organizations organizations organizations or or- inconsistent with judicial fairness That in his blind partisanship and antagonism to labor unions Judge Wilkerson has not followed the law lawas laws as s laid down by the supreme court That Wilkerson is an avowed partisan par par- san of those legal doctrines which give ive employers ers an overwhelming ad ad- vantage o over or r cs in industrial con controversies tro To elevate a judge holding such views to higher authority is to aid in nullifying the thirteenth amendment amend ment ment said aid |