Word: nlra
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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...appealed from it to the Supreme Court, arguing that the National Labor Relations Act of July 5, 1935, also called the Wagner Act, was invalid against the AP because: 1) it violated Freedom of the Press; 2) the AP's activities were not interstate commerce; 3) the NLRA was unconstitutional...
...Does the NLRA abridge AP's Constitutional guarantee of freedom? "We hold that it does not," ruled the Court. "We think the contention not only has no relevance to the circumstances of the instant case but is an unsound generalization. . . . The Act... does not require that the petitioner retain in its employ an incompetent editor or one who fails faithfully to edit the news to reflect the facts without bias or prejudice. The Act permits a discharge for any reason other than union activity or agitation for collective bargaining. . . . The restoration of Watson to his former position...
That the Wagner Act was unconstitutional was denied by the Court in the other NLRA cases decided by the Court that day and the AP's third argument was disposed of by reference to them. Dutifully the AP notified the NLRB to have Reporter Watson return to work the next morning...