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Workers against the city : the fight for free speech in Hague v. CIO / Donald W. Rogers.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rogers, Donald W., 1948- author.
- Series:
- Working class in American history.
- Illinois scholarship online.
- The working class in American history
- Illinois scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Freedom of speech--United States--History.
- Freedom of speech.
- Assembly, Right of--United States--History.
- Assembly, Right of.
- Labor unions--Law and legislation--United States--History.
- Labor unions.
- Mayors--New Jersey--Jersey City.
- Mayors.
- Jersey City (N.J.)--Politics and government.
- Jersey City (N.J.).
- American Federation of Labor. Committee for Industrial Organization.
- American Federation of Labor.
- American Civil Liberties Union.
- Hague, Frank, 1876-1956.
- Hague, Frank.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 239 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- This text contributes to legal and labor history by reinterpreting the U.S. Supreme Court's Hague v. CIO (1939) decision, which upheld a federal district court injunction prohibiting Jersey City boss Frank Hague from obstructing workers from the Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO) and allies in the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) from meeting in urban public places. The case involved speech and assembly freedoms, rights essential for CIO workers' organizing efforts, but, as the book shows, these rights were submerged under municipal police powers to preserve public order until the court brought them under federal protection of the Fourteenth Amendment in Hague. Revising the conventional view, the book argues that Hague was more than simply a civil liberties victory for workers over a dictatorial, antilabor city boss.
- Contents:
- The rise of Boss Hague : municipal politics and civil liberties in the old era
- Workers in transition : remaking labor unionism in a boss-run town
- Street fight and media fight : the battle for Jersey City
- Into Federal District Court : municipal power and civil liberties in a new forum
- The U.S. Supreme Court decisions : "time out of mind"?
- Epilogue : aftermath and legacy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 30, 2021).
- Previously issued in print: 2020.
- ISBN:
- 9780252043468
- 0252043464
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