Unions Win Round in Fight To
Force Support of Activities
By Congressional Quarterly
Washington - Labor unions
have won the latest round in
a significant court battle test
ing their right to compel mem
bers to support their political
and lobbying activities.
The North Carolina su
preme court Feb. 25 ruled that
workers who must join a
union to hold their jobs can
also be forced to pay dues to
support the union's lobbying
and political efforts, even
though they oppose the ob
jectives of those activities.
There was only one dissent
to the North Carolina ruling,
which reversed a lower court
decision against the unions.
But the issue is far from
settled. The Georgia supreme
court, which ruled against the
unions on a technical point in
an almost - identical suit in
1957, is expected to reaffirm
its stand when the same case
comes before it for final dis
position next month.
The Georgia court has al
ready declared unanimously
that "we do not believe one
(union member) can constitu
tionally be compelled to con
tribute money to support
ideas, politics and candidates
which he opposes."
Headed for High Court
The importance of the issue
and the developing split be
tween the high tribunals of
two states make it almost in
evitable that the question will
come before the United States
Supreme Court - perhaps next
fall - for final resolution.
At stake are the multi-million
dollar lobbying and po
litical education activities
which have given labor unions
a powerful voice in Congress
and national affairs. Most of
these activities are financed
from union dues.
The plaintiffs in both the'
North Carolina and Georgia
cases argued that they should
not be forced to pay dues for
such purposes.'
In both cases, the suits were
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filed by employees of the
Southern Railway in an effort
to block enforcement of a
union shop contract between
the Southern and various rail
road brotherhoods. Under a
union shop contract, all work
ers are required to join the
union within a certain time -usually,
60 days - after they
have been employed.
Congress in 1950 approved
union shop contracts on the
railroads even in states -like
Georgia and North Carolina
where right-to-work laws for
bid such contracts generally.
The Supreme Court in the
1956 Hanson case upheld the
constitutionality of the union
shop amendment to the Rail
way Labor Act.
But in that decision the high
court used' this significant'
language:
"The only conditions to
union membership authorized
by . . . the Railway Labor Act
are the payment of periodic
dues, initiation fees and assess
ments . . . The financial sup
port required relates, there
fore, to the work of the union
in th.e realm of collective bar
gaining ... If assessments are
in fact imposed for purposes
not germane to collective bar
gaining ... or if the exaction
of dues ... is used as a cover
for forcing ideological con
formity or other action in con
travention of the First Amend
ment, this judgment will not
prejudice the decision in that
case . . . ."
That language in the Su
preme Court opinion was in
terpreted by some lawyers to
mean that workers covered by
a union shop contract could
be forced to pay dues only for
their share of the union's col
lective bargaining work, and
not for other purposes like
lobbying or political educa
tion. Georgia Ruling
That is exactly what the
Georgia supreme court held in
its ruling on the technical
point of the Georgia case in
1957.
But last week the North
Carolina supreme court inter
preted the language very dif
ferently. The North Carolina
judges said the Supreme
Court decision "indicates that
the required financial support
embraces all activities of the
(union) reasonably related to
its maintenance of an effec
tive bargaining agent," includ
ing lobbying and political
education work.
They said i there was no
issue of "forcing ideological
conformity" on union mem
bers by requiring them to
support union lobbying and
politicking because, "in all
other respects, (they) are free
to speak and act according to
their own desires even if by
so doing they speak and act
at cross - purposes with the
HORNBROOK
Birthday Observed
By KATHERINE CHAPMAN
Hornbrook - To honor Mike
Turnbow on his 13th birth
day, his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Andrew Skeahan, entertained
a group of his friends at a
buffet supper and dancing
party at their home Saturday,
Feb. 28. Several games were
played, with prizes going to
Randy Peters, Suzanne Kutz
key, Joan Kutzkey, and Jim
my Skeahan.
A t h r e e-tiered birthday
cake and ice cream were serv
ed as a climax to the supper.
Attending were Karen Baker,
Suzanne Kutzkey, Joan Kutz
key, Donna Spearin, Jeanie
Cardoza, Jennifer Cummins,
Linda Peters, Marsha Farns
worth, Gloria Lara, Bonny
Sue Blankenship, Jimmy Ske
ahan, Greg Skeahan, Mike
Blankenship, Randy Peters,
Jerry McMasters, Furl Moore,
Steve Farmer, Dale Farmer,
Gene Farmer, Darrell Jones,
Ernest Burcell, Aaron Peters,
and George Chadwick.
Parents attending were Mrs.
Loren Cummins, Mr. and Mrs.
Ray Blankenship, and Mr. and
Mrs. Harley Baker.
Girl Scouts from Troop 24
at Hilts were in town Satur
day selling Girl Scouts cook
ies from house to house.
Funeral services were held
Monday afternoon at Gard
ners' Funeral chapel in Yreka
for Eugene Smith, 53, of
Dunsmuir, who died Friday,
March 6, in Siskiyou General
hospital in Yreka following a
Princess Margaret
Dances at Party
London -UPD- Princess Mar
garet danced past 'midnight
this morning at the end of a
gala night out in a party that
included jazz pianist Robin
Douglas-Home.
Douglas-Home, 26-year-old
nephew of the Earl of Home
and former suitor of Princess
Margaretha of Sweden, was
included in Margaret's party
for the first time. His ro
mance with the Swedish prin
cess ended last year.
Princess Margaret, who is
president of the Royal Ballet,
was acocmpanied at the per
formance by her mother,
Queen Elizabeth. Her sister,
the Queen, went to a Gilbert
and Sullivan operetta in an
other theater.
unions."
At the moment, then, rail
road unions in North Carolina
can collect dues from unwill
ing workers to support their
lobbying and political educa
tion work, but railroad unions
in Georgia cannot. It remains
for the Supreme Court to
settle the issue on a national
basis.
(Copyright 1959,
Congressional Quarterly Inc.)
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years' illness.
Mr. Smith was born Aug.
27, 195, in Hornbrook, a son
of Adelbert and Grace Meam-
ber Smith. He attended gram
mar school here, but the great
er part of his life was spent
in Dunsmuir, where he was a
clerk.
Survivors include a sister,
Mrs. Hazel Stanley, of Duns
muir and a niece, Grace Stan
ley, of Redding. He was a ne
phew of the late Fred J.
Meamber, of Yreka. The Eev.
John Martin of St. Mark's Ep
iscopal church in Yreka offi
ciated, and burial was in the
family plot of the Henley
Hornbrook cemetery.
Visitors last week at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Bear were her brother and
sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.
Chris Klontz of Auburn,
Wash. On Saturday, the two
couples went to Mt. Shasta
Ski bowl.
Sweepstakes winner in the
series of card parties given
by Hornbrook Grange was
Mrs. Lester Nye. The conclud
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evening at the Grange hall,
and Mrs. Nye also held high
score for the evening's play.
Mrs. Al King, general chair
man of the series, speaking in
behalf of the Grange, express
ed appreciation to those who
attended, particularly those
from Yreka and Montague,
for their help in making the
parties successful.
Mrs. Lennard Sloan is in
Siskiyou General hospital in
Yreka with a severely slashed
hand, and cuts on her back.
She was injured Saturday
while horseback riding with
her husband, when her horse
shied and threw her. She was
carrying two pop bottles at
the time which fell and broke,
and she was thrown onto
them.
Mrs. James Kunkle arrived
by plane in Medford Saturday
evening from Oxnard, Calif.
Her husband had returned
home two weeks earlier, and
met her at the airport. The
Kunkles had been in Oxnard
since shortly after Christmas.
They had spent Christmas
there with her parents, and
had just returned to Horn
brook, when they received
word that her father suffered
a stroke, so they returned.
Mrs. Kunkle said her father
is improving.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Smith left
Sunday morning for San
Francisco. They stayed over
night en route at Corning,
Calif., with their son and
daughter-in-law, Dr. and Mrs.
Edward M. Smith, and son,
Mike. They expect to return
next week end.
Miss Mary Lee Rutledge
was home over the week end
from Chico State college.
George Carey is in South
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Francisco for a checkup. He
was hospitalized in Yreka for
several days in February with
an apparent heart attack.
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from a two weeks' visit in Ba-
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children and other relatives.
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In fact, that was his homework.
School board officials, in
effect, ordered him to shave a
healthy beard he had been
growing since Dec. 20 in con
nection with a Franklin high
school function and the Ore
gon Centennial. When told by
Franklin High officials that
Gary had to shave, his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank A.
Sanders, took the matter to
the school board contending
the ultimatum was an in
fringement of personal rights,
But the board ruled the whis
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Portland Women Charges Gambling
Vancouver, Wash. -(UPD- A
Portland housewife told the
Vancouver city council Tues
day night that her husband
had lost large sums of money
gambling in Vancouver.
She said he lost SHOO in
two days last October and on
other occasions S700 and S900
a day. She said her husband
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Mayor Irving Jensen, after
the woman had completed her
statement, said:
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going on, this, I am sure, com
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the council members."
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husband have a business that
it being ruined by his gamb
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The mayor said the council
j would ask for a complete in
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