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Labor & Crime v. Wilkerson...
Labor is a behemoth which never forgets. When President Hoover appointed Federal Judge James Herbert Wilkerson to the Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago last winter (TIME, Jan. 25 ), Labor bitterly recalled that it was this same Judge Wilkerson whose mandate smashed the great railway shopmen's strike of 1922. At the request of Attorney General Harry Micajah Daugherty, Judge Wilkerson. just appointed by President Harding, issued a sweeping injunction restraining strikers all over the nation from meeting, picketing, agitating against their employers. The struggle to prevent the Senate's confirmation of Judge Wilkerson to the appellate court has been...
...Chicago, and to a lesser extent throughout the country. James Herbert Wilkerson is something of a judicial hero. His promotion by President Hoover was frankly the result of "his splendid service" in curbing gang activities. He it was who sent notorious Terry Druggan and Frankie Lake to jail. Last summer he capped a long and successful record of imprisoning gangsters when he refused to countenance a "deal" between Scarface Capone himself, his Federal prosecutor and the U. S. Attorney General's office whereby Capone was to swap a plea of guilty to income tax evasion for a light sentence. When...
...result of his gang-busting Judge Wilkerson not only received his appointment but the backing of the Illinois Congressional delegation of both parties, Senators Lewis and Glenn, Mayor Cermak of Chicago, the Chicago Bar Association, Attorney General Mitchell, President Melvin Alvah Traylor of Chicago's First National Bank and a host of solid citizens. In contesting Judge Wilkerson's appointment to a higher court. Labor found itself unhappily sided with Organized Crime...
Labor's plea, eloquently voiced for the 21 rail unions and the A. F. of L., came to Senator Borah's committee from Donald Randall Richberg, Chicago attorney. With Judge Wilkerson's 1922 injunction in mind, said he: "He set aside the constitutional guarantees of liberty of contract and free speech. He permitted his court to be used as a strikebreaking agency in behalf of the railway managements. ... In his blind partisanship and antagonism to labor unions. Judge Wilkerson has not followed the law as laid clown by the Supreme Court, but has attempted to write...