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...Apex case began in the sit-down year of 1937. On May 6, between 10,000 and 15,000 Philadelphia hosiers assembled at 5th and Luzerne Streets, where notoriously antiunion Apex had its six-story plant. Hundreds of workers smashed down the doors, swarmed into the plant, held it for 48 days. When Apex got it back, so much damage had been done that the plant could not start operations for nearly six months. Last week, Apex's suit for triple damages under the Sherman Act went to trial. In the courtroom...
...establish that the union's officers did not authorize or direct the strike. But before Apex had finished its story, District Judge William Huntington Kirkpatrick solemnly observed: "I think that there certainly has been established a prima facie case that the union authorized, maintained or adopted a sit-down strike...
This split between the President and his Vice President really dates from the winter of 1937 when John Garner bluntly berated Franklin Roosevelt for doing nothing about the Sit-Down strikes. Subsequently he made his famed remark (perhaps apocryphal, but truer than history): "You've got to give the cattle [Business] a chance to put some fat on their bones." That spring came the Supreme Court fight. Unwilling to help "The Boss" in that struggle, the Vice President asked and got permission to go home, go fishing. Joe Robinson was fighting Mr. Roosevelt's battle as well...
...smells like one to Socialists Butler & Mitchell. Last week they accused him of deliberately wrecking their union to subordinate it to the Communist Party. They declared that he confused simple Southern Negroes and "poor whites" with red tape, refused to support S. T. F. U.'s roadside sit-down in Missouri, finally suspended all its officers without a hearing and called a reorganization convention in St. Louis this week. On Donald Henderson's behalf, a C. I. 0. spokesman replied that he had simply tried to bring order into a maladministered union, that Messrs. Butler & Mitchell fooled themselves...
This week the U. S. Supreme Court, reversing an NLRB order to Fansteel to rehire the strikers, ruled out the sit-down for good & all. Said Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes (Justices Reed & Black dissenting in part*): "The employes had the right to strike, but they had no license to commit acts of violence or to seize their employer's plant. ... To justify such conduct [as NLRB had justified it] because of the existence of a labor dispute or of an unfair labor practice would be to put a premium on resort to force instead of legal remedies...