Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gradually the arguments came down to that: was the case actually a labor dispute? And did the Government, as the "sovereign," come under the jurisdiction of the Norris-LaGuardia act...
...Congress at the time," mused Judge Goldsborough. In fact the judge voted for the bill, Padway recalled. The act specifically outlawed use of injunctions in a labor dispute. Wasn't this case a labor dispute? "Calling it a labor dispute does not make it one," said the judge...
...years management had made full use of that weapon, persuading the nation's judges, backed by the militia and the police, to enjoin labor from making any offensive move. The practice became so notorious that Congress tried to limit it in 1914 with the Clayton act. But the judges were reluctant to give up their power. In 1932 Congress tried again with the Norris-LaGuardia anti-injunction act...
Padway, attempting to prove it a labor dispute, pointed out that terms and conditions of employment were involved; that the Government seized the mines last spring under the War Labor Disputes act; that Government operation of the mines is actually a legal phony...
...Norris-LaGuardia act, Sonnett recalled what onetime Congressman and labor expert Fiorello LaGuardia had said during the 1932 debate: "I do not see," LaGuardia said then, "how in any possible way the United States can be brought in under the provisions...