Krystad v. Lau

Extremes beget extremes; violence, in act or attitude, induces violence. Action in the affairs of men—as in the world of physics—tends to produce an equal and opposite reaction.

Respondent David Lau, an American citizen of Chinese ancestry, will have nothing to do with the Laundry and Dye Works Drivers’ Union, Local 566. He says in his affidavit that, in 1947, when he and his wife, Kow May Lau, began the laundry business, members of the union threatened him with physical violence. Respondent David Lau says that he sought to join the union but it refused him membership because of his oriental…