People ex rel. Padula v. Hughes

Mr. Presiding Justice McSurely

delivered the opinion of the court.

This case presents the question whether a labor union may be incorporated under the Not-For-Profit Act of Illinois, as amended July 9,1937. Ill. Rev. Stat. 1937, ch. 32, par. 158, sec. 29 [Jones Ill. Stats. Ann. 32.251],

The plaintiffs filed with Edward J. Hughes, secretary of State, a petition for a corporate charter under the Not-For-Profit Act, stating that the name of the proposed corporation was the Allied Federation of Labor, the object of which was “to organize and maintain a labor organization, to aid and assist workers,…