Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1906 — Decision of Interest to Labor. [ARTICLE]

Decision of Interest to Labor.

Springfield, 111., Feb. 22. —The su preme court handed down an opinion affirming a decision of the Cook county court in fining members of Franklin Union No. 4 for unlawful assaults on non-union men and fining the union for being guilty of illegal conspiracy. The supreme court holds that the strikers had no right to picket plants, and that the union can be held liable as a corporation. Justices Boggs and Scott dissented, holding that there was not evidence to Justify a verdict against the union. The dissenting Judges express individual views sustaining the right of strikers to persuade and induce by peaceable means others to Join in strikes.