How did organized labor respond to the Supreme Court's decision in Lochner v. New York?

Following the Supreme Court's 1905 decision in Lochner v. New York, which struck down a state law limiting the working hours of bakers, organized labor strongly denounced the ruling as reactionary.

Labor groups viewed the decision as confirmation that the judiciary acted as a tool for capitalist entrepreneurs and stood as an enemy to the interests of working people. The case became a lasting symbol of judicial interference with the democratic process, while the dissent by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. emerged as a significant rallying cry for the Progressive movement in the United States.1