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Show SUPREME COURT REVERSESDECREE United Mine Workers and American Flint Glass Workers' Work-ers' Practices Illegal. IDAHO LAW UPHELD State Prohibition Act and Reasonable Police Powers Sustained by Justices. WASHINGTON. Dec. 10. Federal court decrees holding the United Mine Workers of America and the American Flint Glass Workers' unions to be legal organizations under West Virginia Vir-ginia statutes and tho common law, were today reversed by the supreme court Injunctions were approved, however, by tho supreme court to the Hitchman Coal & Coke company and Eagle Glass S-. Manufacturing company of West Virginia to restrict union solicitation of their non-union employes -who are under contract not to join unions. Federal Fed-eral Judge Dayton of West Virginia has granted such injunctions. The court, thrpugh Justice Pitney, rejected union contentions that peaceful peace-ful solicitation, or "picketing" of employes em-ployes having contracts not to join unions does not violate constitutional freedom of contract. The supreme court, by its decision, does not decide that the organizations are illegal but stamps certain practices prac-tices as illegal. The decision says the court recognizes the right of the j miners to organize. Idaho Lav Upheld. WASHINGTON. Dec. 10. Idaho court decisions upholding the validity of the state prohibition law and declaring de-claring it a reasonable exercise of the stato police powers were today sustained sus-tained by the supreme court. Iowa Law Sustained. The Iowa collateral inheritance law levying a tax of 5 per cent on legacios to citjV.ons of that state but 20 per cent upon those to alien non-residents was today upheld as valid by the supreme court. Liquor Lav Upheld. Constitutionality of tho North Care-Una Care-Una liquor law, requiring railroad and express companies to keep for public inspection records showing liquor shipments received in the state, was today upheld by the supreme court. Inheritance Tax Upheld. The court also sustained "the North Dakota inheritance tax law levying a tax of 25 per cent on property willed to aliens living in foreign countries but from 1 to 2 1-2 per cent on bequeaths be-queaths to resident citizens. |