Measured against the subject of this chapter, the matters considered in the preceding chapters may seem inconsequential. There we encountered errors, distortions, and perversions of law. Here we come face to face with a more portentous development: the destruction of law itself.

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“One of the great illusions about the individual income tax, which tenaciously persists, is that the progressive rates are necessary from the revenue standpoint. The thinking goes that heavy revenue reliance on the tax makes substantial progression inevitable even if not desirable.

to leading cases, to names, and to topics

Actions for damages against trade unions

common law, 185, 273, 275

Taft-Hartley Act, 187

Administration of justice

annual federal appropriation for, 93

failure of state, 93

function of state, 74

progress and retrogression in, 263-65, 272-82

Administrative law, critique of, 284-88

Administrative Procedure Act, 322

THE
KOHLER STRIKE

Union Violence and
Administrative Law

by

SYLVESTER PETRO

Professor of Law
New York University School of Law

HENRY REGNERY COMPANY
Chicago 1961

© 1961 by Henry Regnery Company, Chicago
Manufactured in the United States of America.
Library of Congress Card No. 61-16005

First printing January 1961

   Second printing March 1961

I have followed the Kohler Company’s struggle with the United Automobile Workers Union for years, as stage after stage of the dispute has demonstrated the things that have gone wrong in the labor policy of the United States. But its full value as a textbook illustration of the defects of our labor policy was not complete until August 26, 1960, when the National Labor Relations Board handed down its decision on the charges brought by the UAW against the company.

1. KOHLER OF KOHLER

FIFTY MILES north of Milwaukee and just west of Sheboygan lies one of the prettiest towns in the United States. There is a winding river with smooth meadowland on either bank, here a copse, there a village green, and everywhere clusters of comfortable homes set in wide lawns.