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AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR v. WATSON

Civil Action No. 881.

60 F.Supp. 1010 (1945)

AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR et al. v. WATSON, Attorney General, et al.

District Court, S. D. Florida, Tampa Division.

June 11, 1945.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pat C. Whitaker and Tom Whitaker, both of Tampa, Fla., Joseph A. Padway and Herbert S. Thatcher, both of Washington, D. C., Edwin C. Coffee, of Jacksonville, Fla., and J. Dress Pannel, of Harrisburg, Pa., for plaintiffs.

J. Tom Watson, Atty. Gen., of Florida, and Howard S. Bailey, Sumter Leitner and George M. Powell, Asst. Attys. Gen. of Florida, for defendants.

Before WALLER, Circuit Judge, and BARKER and DE VANE, District Judges.

WALLER, Circuit Judge.

The 1943 session of the Legislature submitted to the people of Florida the following amendment as an addition to Section 12 of the Declaration of Rights of their Constitution:

"The right of persons to work shall not be denied or abridged on account of membership or non-membership in any labor union, or labor organization; provided, that this clause shall not be construed to deny or abridge the right of employees by and through a labor...

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