Show equality Is before law the united states supreme court lias has rendered a recent decision which says in effect that the right to do business is superior to the right to strike the case had its inception before the court of 0 industrial relations which hears bears disputes dispute zi between wage earners and wage paa papers ers in the state of kansas it 1 is of interest to note that justice Er krandels Eran andels deis regarded by closed shop people as their special friend in the highest court wrote the decision which says in part the right to carry on business be it called liberty or property has value to interfere with this right without just cause is unlawful the fact that the injury was inflicted by a strike is sometimes a justification but a strike may bs be illegal because of 0 its purpose however orderly the manner in which it is conducted to collect a state claim due to a fellow member of t the e union who was formerly lor merly employed in the business is not a pe permissible purpose in the absence of a valid agreement to the contrary each party to a disputed claim may insist that it be determined only by a court to enforce payment by a strike Is clearly coercion the rho legislature may make such action punishable criminal 1 ly as extortion or otherwise and it may subject to punishment him icho vho uses the power or influence incident to his office in a union to order the strike neither the common law nor tho the fourteenth amendment confers the absolute right to strike when mr brandeis andels Br was elevated to the bench of the supreme court of the united states the radical unionists hailed him as another daniel |