Hague v. Committee For Industrial Organization

307 U.S. 496 (1939)

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Nature of the Case

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Facts

The bill alleges that the officials who run Jersey City have repeatedly denied respondents the right to hold public meetings in the city for their stated purpose of organizing unorganized workers into unions. They did this by ordinance. Petitioners state that their sole purpose is to explain to workingmen the purposes of the National Labor Relations Act, the benefits to be derived from it, and the aid which the Committee for Industrial Organization would furnish workingmen to that end. Petitioners state that all the activities in which they seek to engage in Jersey City were, and are, to be performed peacefully, without intimidation, fraud, violence, or other unlawful methods. The bill charges that the ordinances are unconstitutional and void, or are being enforced in an unconstitutional and discriminatory way. Petitioners alleged they have been deprived of the privileges of free speech and peaceable assembly.