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''New Negro Alliance v. Sanitary Grocery Co.'', 303 U.S. 552 (1938), was a
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of the
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which affects
US labor law United States labor law sets the rights and duties for employees, labor unions, and employers in the United States. Labor law's basic aim is to remedy the "inequality of bargaining power" between employees and employers, especially employers "org ...
, safeguarding a right to
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and in the struggle by African Americans against
discriminatory Discrimination is the act of making unjustified distinctions between people based on the groups, classes, or other categories to which they belong or are perceived to belong. People may be discriminated on the basis of race, gender, age, relig ...
hiring practices. Sanitary Grocery Co. was at the time of the case owned by
Safeway Inc. Safeway is an American supermarket chain founded by Marion Barton Skaggs in April 1915 in American Falls, Idaho. The chain provides grocery items, food and general merchandise and features a variety of specialty departments, such as bakery, d ...


Judgment

The court concluded that according to the United States Congress "peaceful and orderly dissemination of information by those defined as persons interested in a labor dispute concerning 'terms and conditions of employment' in an industry or a plant or a place of business should be lawful; that, short of fraud, breach of the peace, violence, or conduct otherwise unlawful, those having a direct or indirect interest in such terms and conditions of employment should be at liberty to advertise and disseminate facts and information with respect to terms and conditions of employment, and peacefully to persuade others to concur in their views respecting an employer's practices."


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US labor law United States labor law sets the rights and duties for employees, labor unions, and employers in the United States. Labor law's basic aim is to remedy the "inequality of bargaining power" between employees and employers, especially employers "org ...
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List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 303 This is a list of cases reported in volume 303 of ''United States Reports'', decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1938. Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 303 U.S. The Supreme Court is established by A ...


References


External links

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New Negro Alliance's Sanitary Grocery Protest Site
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