HOTEL EMPLOYEES' LOCAL v. BOARD

No. 124.

315 U.S. 437 (1942)

HOTEL & RESTAURANT EMPLOYEES' INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE, LOCAL NO. 122, ET AL. v. WISCONSIN EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS BOARD ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 2, 1942.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. I.E. Goldberg and Joseph A. Padway for petitioners.

Messrs. N.S. Boardman, Assistant Attorney General of Wisconsin, and Herman M. Knoeller argued the cause for respondents. Messrs. John E. Martin, Attorney General, and James Ward Rector, Deputy Attorney General, were on the brief with Mr. Boardman for the Wisconsin Employment Relations Board, and Mr. Walter H. Bender was on the brief with Mr. Knoeller for the Plankinton House Company, respondents.


MR. JUSTICE FRANKFURTER delivered the opinion of the Court.

We brought this case here from the Supreme Court of Wisconsin, 314 U.S. 590, to canvass the claim that Wisconsin has forbidden the petitioners to engage in peaceful picketing insofar as we have deemed it an exercise of the right of free speech protected by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Thornhill v. Alabama, 310 U...

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