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...chieftains as William Hutcheson, Executive Council bigshot...
...hole was a lack in the law. Justice Felix Frankfurter on Feb. 3 handed down the Supreme Court's 6-to-2 opinion in the Hutcheson case. Effect of the ruling was that labor unions, except in exceptional cases, may not be prosecuted under antitrust laws, i.e., may freely continue practices ranging from restraints of trade to outright racketeering. The Hutcheson decision stamped an O.K. on such labor-union restraints of trade as these...
...beaming, bumbling, balding President William Green hailed the Hutcheson decision, which so clearly made possible continuation of corruption and racketeering rampant in some A.F. of L. unions. But Trust Buster Arnold merely fitted another cigar into his mustache and went to work. Deciding that labor's new Siegfried Line could not be carried by assault, he moved underground. He had to go there. No one else in the New Deal wanted to sponsor a measure which attacked labor's rights even if they were wrongs...
Last week baggy, tobacco-strewn Mr. Arnold had nearly finished laying his subterranean mines under the Hutcheson case. First explosion was scheduled for the next fortnight, when the House of Representatives officially returns to work...
...problem before the Court was jurisdictional labor strikes, used by unions chiefly as a means of keeping monopolistic controls. The problem was posed in the Carpenters' case, where the A. F. of L. Carpenters union, controlled by hulking, button-eyed "Big Bill" Hutcheson, struck against the St. Louis brewers, Anheuser-Busch, Inc., in an attempt to force the company to turn over to the carpenters the millwright work already being done under A. F. of L. contract by the Machinists union...