State v. Laundy
Oregon Supreme Court
From Multnomah.: H. H. Belt, Judge. In Banc. Joseph Laundy was convicted of criminal syndicalism; and he appealed from the consequent judgment.
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From Multnomah.: H. H. Belt, Judge. In Banc. Joseph Laundy was convicted of criminal syndicalism; and he appealed from the consequent judgment. The indictment upon which the defendant was tried and convicted, omitting some of the mere formal parts, reads thus: “The said Joe Laundy on the twelfth day of November A. D. 1919, in the county of Multnomah and state of Oregon, then and there being, did then and there unlawfully and feloniously help to organize, become a member of, and voluntarily assemble with a certain society and assemblage of persons, to wit: The Industrial Workers of the World,…
1Opinion of the CourtHarris, J.
1. It is contended that the title of Chapter 12, Laws 1919, is not broad enough to cover those provisions of the act which prohibit organizing, helping to organize, and becoming a member of a society of the character denounced. This contention of the defendant cannot be sustained. Our Constitution, Article IV, Section 20, commands that:
“Every act shall embrace but one subject, and matters properly connected therewith, which subject shall be expressed in the title.”
*455This provision of the Constitution was designed to do away with certain abuses, among which was the practice of inserting in one…
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