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Judge. In Delaware are incorporated many of the monster corporations of the country and to the Federal court in that State they carry most of their disputes. John Percy Nields probably tries more patent cases than any other judge in the land. In one sense the Weirton suit was a patent case in which Judge Nields was to decide whether company or A. F. of L. unions were to have precedence in Industry...
...avid student of Americana, this act of destruction must have been one of life's hardest tasks for John Nields. He left a lucrative law practice when President Hoover raised him to the Federal bench in 1930. But despite his politics and heritage, neither side of the Weirton case doubted for a moment that Judge Nields would hand down a strictly impartial decision. The trial closed last November. After long deliberation, Judge Nields was ready with his opinion last week...
Decision. He found against the Government upon both the issues of fact and the issues of law. The Weirton company union, he believed, was acceptable to a "great majority" of the workers. Far from sympathizing with the A. F. of L.'s attempt to organize the Weirton plant, Judge Nields found that its representatives had been guilty of "misrepresentation and threats of the closed shop." Weirton, therefore, had not violated Section...
...boat for a Bermuda holiday. Businessmen in general did not try to hide their smiles of satisfaction. In the midst of the general chorus of groans from Washington, no Administration voice of protest was heard, but NRA's lawyers announced at once that they would carry the Weirton fight to the Supreme Court...
...gloomy and disillusioned Labor the Weirton decision was just one more indication that the Administration had not been able to keep its rosy collective bargaining promises of two years ago. In the Senate the decision also had an effect on Senator Wagner's National Labor Relations Bill, whose fundamental premises had suddenly been given a set of question marks. Only nonpartisan who saw a silver lining for President Roosevelt & friends in the Weirton case outcome was Pundit Walter Lippmann. Said he: "What has been attempted under NRA . . . is a mixture of good and evil. . . . It was bound to break...