The Potters Herald

Lawyers Counsel
Care In Setting
T-H Precedents

Cincinnati (LPA)—Four top labor attorneys, in addresses to the AFL Building Trades Dep't convention here, urged unions to take special care in handling of Taft-Hartley cases during the next few months.

The attorneys were: J. Albert Woll, AFL chief counsel; Louis Sherman, counsel for the Electrical Workers; Clif Langsdale, counsel for the Boilermakers; and Francis X. Ward, counsel for the Carpenters.

For one thing, they suggested that unions avoid getting involved in dangerous Taft-Hartley precedents now, because of the possibility that the act may be repealed by the next Congress.

Also, they advised local unions not to enter into "cease and desist" stipulations which may put them on record as abandoning practices which had been legitimate in the past. They suggested, too, that unions exert care in the kind of cases that are appealed to higher courts, so as to prevent the laying down of dangerous judicial precedents.

The attorneys stressed that the fight for repeal of that repressive law "has not yet been won," despite results of the Nov. 2 election, and that a tough battle lies ahead to secure repeal and to protect labor's interests.