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Quotation from NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. by Supreme Court of the United States
“When industries organize themselves on a national scale, making their relation to interstate commerce the dominant factor in their activities, how can it be maintained that their industrial labor relations constitute a forbidden field into which Congress may not enter when it is necessary to protect interstate commerce from the paralyzing consequences of industrial war?”
NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., Opinion of the Court (Chief Justice Hughes) (U.S. Reports text (Wikisource))
Chief Justice Hughes asks why a nationally organized steel company should be beyond federal labor regulation.
Citation: "When industries organize themselves on a national scale, making their relation to interstate commerce the dominant factor in their activities, how can it be maintained that their industrial labor relations constitute a forbidden field into which Congress may not enter when it is necessary to protect interstate commerce from the paralyzing consequences of industrial war?" — Supreme Court of the United States, NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., Opinion of the Court (Chief Justice Hughes) (U.S. Reports text (Wikisource)). (id nlrb-v-jones-and-laughlin-steel-q4)
Portrait: Charles Evans Hughes cph.3b15401 (3x4a), Underwood & Underwood, Public domain.
