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Show I ! COERCION I :; PUTESiy I ';;' invalid R t... Opinion Aclvcrse 'to Labor Organza- H '' i.tlon's Delivered by Justice Pitney B - j in Appeal From Conviction H I S . In Kansas m a B v ' ;" 'Washington, Jan. 25. Employers B (may rcuulro employes tb renounce B '. union Afllllatlons as a, condition ot BH employment, tliu supremo court holil H .ft)day. JustUcs Hughes and Holmes BBflj presented a dissenting opinion, la H which Justlco nay Joined BBflj Tha decision was . mado In a suit over tho Bo called Kansns coercion ijtutule, which It holds uticonstltutlon- B al, and according to Justice itay. Bflfl laws on lllio linos In California, i'ol- Bflfl ' orado, Connecticut, Indiana, Manna- M ' chusotts, Minnesota, Now Hampshire, Hfl ' New Jersoy, New Vork, Oklahoma, V ' Oregon, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, BBB and In l'orto Itlco woro Invnlldittod flflV along with tho Kansas law. BBJ , Tho decision was In tho case or BBV T. I). Coppage, a superintendent of BBV ' tho St. Louis & San Kinnilsco rail- JflS way at Fort Scott, Kansas, convicted B of violating tho law In threatening A. It. Hcdgo, a switchman, wftli tils- B ' clutrgo if he did not sign an ugrco- BBJ I 1 ment to withdraw from tho nwitch- B men's union. JflW Apply Same Rule on Both Sides ' ) Tho suhstanco of tho opinion of BflM ' tho majority of tho court was In I this paragraph: . t "Just as labor organizations have BBB . tho Inherent and constitutional right H J to deny membership to any man who B S; will not ngrco that during such mom- B J bership he will not accept or retain V employment In company with non-Bflfl non-Bflfl i union men, nnd Just as u union man Bflfl has tho constitutional right to do- PBB cllno proffered employment unions PBB tho employer will agree not to cm- IBB i ploy any nonunion man, so the em- BBB ployor has tho constitutional right to BBB Insist thnt tho. employee shall rc'raln BBB from nlllllatlon with tho union during BBB the term of tho employment." BBB Dissenting Opinion BBB Tho contention of tho dissenting BBB Justices Is expressed n the I'int'i in B : this pnrag-nph of their opinion: BBB "Could an employer not tin forbid- BBB ' den from demanding agreements that BBB ; an cmployco should not join tho na- BBB tlonal guard? Could not tho state BBB strlko down agreements not to Joly B a -srtnln political party? Why not BBB lubor unions, whatever memucrs of BBB i this court may think of theso unions? BBB "Wherein Is the right of the em- B ployer to insert th'a stipulation in BBB ' tho agreement nny moro sacred?" In- B (lulrcd Justlco Dny In his dissenting B opinion, "than his right to ngreo with BBB another employer In tho same trado BBB 1 to keep up prices?" |