Heitkamper v. Hoffmann

The plaintiff conducts a bake shop at the corner of Grove street and Knickerbocker avenue in the borough of Brooklyn. It is known as an open shop, inasmuch as the plaintiff does not employ bakers who are members of the union.

Representatives of the Journeymans Bakers Union, one of the defendants here, called upon plaintiff on two occasions and urged him to unionize his shop. He refused. Upon such refusal one of the representatives of the union stated to plaintiff that ‘ ‘ where there is a will there is a way. ’ ’ Thereupon the union set upon a plan to force the plaintiff to comply with its…