Abstract

Misgovernment by Injunction

The article presents information on the book "The Labor Injunction," by Felix Frankfurter and Nathan Greene. The lack of an authoritative book on the labor injunction has often been deplored by public-spirited Americans interested in civil liberty. But the origin of the present book seems curiously remote. Apparently the first impulse toward it came from an English law-journal editor who wished to inform his readers of the strange practices of their American cousins. Like many another legal invention the injunction had originated in England but had fallen into desuetude there with the rise of British labor to political power. The data relating to injunctions in the federal courts have been examined with some degree of thoroughness and exactness.