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Show KANSAS INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS H COURT UPHELD M States can restrain labor organizations H' from striking and refusing to produce M necessities of life. The act creating the m Kansas Court of Industrial Kehtions has H been held constitutional. The state could M enjoin calling of coal strike to defeat pur- H poses of act, and violation of injunction m was contemj)t of court. The Supreme M court held: 1. That Laws 1920 c. 29, creating the H court of industrial relations to regulate B certain industries including the coal min-M min-M ing business, was a reasonable and valid H exercise of the state's police power over B business affected with a public interest M and bearing an intimate relation to the m public peace, health and welfare, and the B act did not contravene the state constitu-H constitu-H ticn because its commingled functions of H separate governmental departments or B because it attempted to enlarge the ori-B ori-B iginal jurisdiction of the supreme court. B nor did it impair liberty of contract or B i ;ji ion involuntary servitude contrary B to the federal constitution. B 2 That even in the absence of express B statutory authority, the state might ap- B ply for and the district court had jurisdic- B tion to grant an injunction to avert threa- B tened public calamity, and an order en- B joining the calling of a coal miners strike B the object of which was to defeat the pur- B poses of the act creating the court of in- B dustrial relations, was not prohibited bv H Gen. St. 19115, 7149, forbidding the grant- B ing of injunctions in certain cases of in- B dustrial disputes nor was such order an B unlawful attempt to enjoin the commis- B sicn of a crime, and persons violating the B order were guilty of contempt of court. B and in proceedings against them for such B contempt thev were not entitled to a trial B by jury notwithstanding the calling of B the strike was in itself a felony. |