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This text contributes to legal and labor history by reinterpreting the U.S. Supreme Court's Hague v. CIO (1939) decision, which upheld a federal district court injunction prohibiting Jersey City boss Frank Hague from obstructing workers from the Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO) and allies in the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) from meeting in urban public places. The case involved speech and assembly freedoms, rights essential for CIO workers' organizing efforts, but, as the book shows, these rights were submerged under municipal police powers to preserve public order until the court brought them under federal protection of the Fourteenth Amendment in Hague. Revising the conventional view, the book argues that Hague was more than simply a civil liberties victory for workers over a dictatorial, antilabor city boss.

Freedom of speech --- Assembly, Right of --- Labor unions --- Mayors --- History. --- History. --- Law and legislation --- History. --- Hague, Frank, --- American Federation of Labor. --- American Civil Liberties Union. --- Jersey City (N.J.) --- Politics and government.