City of New York v. De Lury

Chief Judge Fuld.

We recently decided, in Rankin v. Shanker (23 1ST Y 2d 111), that public employees and labor organizations representing them were not entitled to a trial by jury in a criminal contempt proceeding for the violation of sec*179tion 210 (subd. 1) of the Taylor Law.1 In so holding, we concluded that a legislative classification ‘ ‘ which differentiates between strikes by public employees and employees in private industry ” is reasonable and does not offend against the constitutional guarantee of equal protection of the laws (23 N Y 2d, at p. 118). The case now before us calls upon the…