Norris-LaGuardia Act
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The Norris-LaGuardia Act (also known as the Anti-Injunction Bill) of 1932 was a United States federal law that outlawed yellow-dog contracts, or those in which a worker agreed as a condition of employment that he would not join a labor union; the common title followed from the names of the sponsors of the legislation: Republicans Senator George Norris of Nebraska and Representative Fiorello H. LaGuardia of New York. The act established as United States law that employees should be free to form unions without employer inferences and also withdrew from the federal courts jurisdiction relative to the issuance of injunctions in nonviolent labor disputes.
Section 13A of the act was fully applied by the Supreme Court of the United States in New Negro Alliance v. Sanitary Grocery Co., in which, in an opinion authored by Justice Owen Roberts, the Court held that the act meant to prohibit employers from proscribing the peaceful dissemination of information concerning the terms and conditions of employment by those involved in an active labor dispute, even when such dissemination occurs on employer property.
This act also established as United States policy the full freedom of labor to form labor unions without employer interference and withdrew from the Federal courts the power to issue injunctions in nonviolent labor disputes (any controversy concerning terms or conditions of employment or union representation).
