LABOR LAW -- LEGAL STATUS OF SIT-DOWN STRIKE -- LEGAL AND EQUITABLE REMEDIES

The country finds itself infected with a strike rash. Conditions are now like those which previously have resulted in this state of affairs. The midtide of recovery from a depression low has brought rising prices, freer spending, business increase, and speeded up production, but only incomplete relief to labor from depression hours and wages and the later speed-up. Such traditional causes of strikes have been coupled with a new demand for labor recognition.

Moreover, a strike now has a much greater chance of success than it would have had at any time within the past several years--a potent stimulant to labor unrest, as every businessman knows. And the chance of success has been augmented by the development of labor's as yet most effective weapon, the sit-down strike. This weapon and its legal status are to be the topic of the present comment.