Meltex, Inc. v. Livingston

A woolen piece goods jobber here seeks to enjoin a labor union from picketing its place of business and to recover damages for past picketing. The picketing has not been spectacular and no vast financial interests are involved. On the contrary, the case is merely a rather grim portrayal of what I suspect is typical of the impact of labor union power upon the small business man. As such, it is a case in which decision can be reached only by navigating a channel which several statutes and a myriad of judicial opinions have made narrow and to a certain extent obscure. I can only hope that my…