McCormick & Fisher v. Local Unions 216

Citations

• 22 Ohio C.C. Dec. 165

Syllabus

<p>BOYCOTT BY LABOR UNIONS — INJUNCTION TO PRE= VENT.</p> <p>1. Peaceable Argument and Persuasion to Divert Trade from Business not Unlawful Boycott.</p> <p>Peaceable persuasion and argument, oral, printed or written, by members not officers of labor unions to divert patronage from, a hotel claimed by them to be “unfair to labor” will not be enjoined as an unlawful boycott.</p> <p>2. Coercive Measures by Labor Union to Maintain Boycott Enjoin-able.</p> <p>Injunction will lie to restrain coercive measures by labor unions in the maintenance of a boycott against a hotel claimed to be “unfair to labor.” Whether or not such claim is well-founded is immaterial.</p> <p>3. Restraint by Equity of Coercive Measures, or Violence to Maintain Boycott, no Violation of Right to Jury Trial or Freedom of the Press.</p> <p>Coercive measures to enforce a boycott may consist of violence or any form of intimidation such as threats, oral, printed or written. The. restraint of such unlawful acts. by a court of equity does not violate any right of trial by jury or any constitutional provisions as to the freedom of speech or the press.</p> <p>4. Passing of Cards Threatening to Publish Names of Patrons of Boycotted Hotel May be Enjoined.</p> <p>The distribution by pickets in a labor union boycott, of card3 warning patrons of a hotel and saloon not to patronize the place as unfair, and threatening to publish the names of any who do so may be enjoined.</p> <p>[Syllabus by the court.]</p>