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...case originated early last May when 250 C.I.O. unionists took over Apex Hosiery's Philadelphia plant, refused to budge until they won a closed-shop contract. The company claimed the plant was stormed from without, that 2,500 workers were driven from their jobs, that $3,000,000 worth of damage was done during the rioting. For seven weeks the sit-downers held complete possession. After a Federal District Court judge denied Apex an injunction, the company appealed. Said the three Circuit Court jurists in last week's unanimous opinion...
Maintaining that the Apex sit-down was "in fact not a strike." the Court continued: "Not even counsel for the defendants condoned their lawless, criminal conduct in this case, but in open court condemned it." Attorneys for the sit-downers contended that "however unlawful their acts were, they were incidental, only a means to an end," and therefore did not constitute a conspiracy in restraint of interstate commerce. Said the Court: "This argument overlooks the fact that a strike if lawfully conducted is in itself lawful and its lawfulness now has statutory recognition. There could be no conspiracy under...
Fearing this application of the anti-trust laws to labor disputes could be easily broadened into a major strikebreaking weapon, Labor proposed to carry the Apex case to the U. S. Supreme Court. Meantime the Apex officials gave the sit-downers 24 hours to evacuate the plant. As the zero hour approached, Philadelphia's Mayor Wilson persuaded the sit-downers to leave peacefully, led them out in person. After one look at the plant. Apex officials rushed back to the Courts claiming that on the last day the sit-downers had wrecked the mill from office to basement...
...Declaring himself tired of C. I. O. attempts to organize his workers, the general manager of Apex Hosiery Co., Philadelphia's biggest non-union hosiery mill, shut down his plant one day at noon, locking out 2,500 employes. Massing outside, they were joined by some 10,000 sympathetic workers from other mills. For a while the ugly-tempered crowd contented itself with milling, muttering, shying an occasional stone through plant windows. Suddenly some 300 men detached themselves from the main body and, while the mob set up a terrifying roar, battered their way through a line...
...Guard offering a convenient excuse for several good shots of icebergs, ships in distress, breeches buoy, and dozens of manly blows between the smiling Tim O'Shay, (Preston Foster) and Bo'suns Mate Malone (McLaglen). Ida Lupino as "Doris," Malone's daughter, acts as a rather insipid if adequate apex of the eternal triangle over which Malone, the father, tries to exercise parental influence. In spite of the overworked sickbed, hero, and may-the-best-man-win falderol the picture is satisfactory and fills the time between 8 and 11 as well as most...