Decisions

Within the fortnight, the Supreme Court handed down a cluster of minor decisions along with its opinion on the President's appointive power. Among them these seemed of general interest:

Procter & Gamble, manufacturers of "Ivory," "Naphtha," and many another soap, must change their advertising methods. The Supreme Court's action was a victory for the Federal Trade Commission who had ordered Procter & Gamble to cease using the word "naphtha" in advertising soap and soap products in which kerosene was used and which contained less than 1% of naphtha.

No right to strike. In the case of one August Dorchy v. the State of Kansas, the Supreme Court decided that the state statute, punishing anyone who induces others to strike when the strike is not justifiable, or who orders them to strike through his power incidental to office in a union, is constitutional. Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis handed down the decision, said that neither the common law nor the 14th Amendment confers the absolute right to strike.