HAGUE V. COMMITTEE ON INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION,

HAGUE V. COMMITTEE ON INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION, 307 U.S. 496 (1939). Decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1939 on a five to two vote, Hague v. Committee on Industrial Organization enjoined Frank ("Boss") Hague, mayor of Jersey City, and other city officials from enforcing local ordinances to harass labor organizers. The case marked a victory for the new industrial union organization, known as the CIO; it also marked the first time that the Supreme Court invoked the First Amendment to protect labor organizing. The case is significant as the source of the "public forum" doctrine, as the Supreme Court repudiated its own older doctrine that government ownership of the land on which streets and parks are situated gave officials the same right as private landlords to refuse access to those public spaces.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Kaplan, Benjamin. "The Great Civil Rights Case of Hague v. CIO: Notes of a Survivor." 25 Suffolk University Law Review 25 (1991): 913.

William E. Forbath

See also American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations; Trade Unions.