American Cigar Co. v. Berger

This is an appeal from an order finding appellants guilty of contempt of court and punishing them therefor, on a hearing upon a petition for a rule to show cause and answers thereto, which petition charged appellants with violation of an injunction theretofore issued pursuant to the prayer of a bill filed by the complainant, American Cigar Company.

There was a strike of the union employees connected with a branch of the appellee company in the City of Chicago. In January, 1919, the company filed a bill setting forth, among other things, that it employed about 200 men and 400 women and girls;…