M. Steinert & Sons Co. v. Tagen
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on October 20, 1910, seeking to enjoin the defendants, officers and members of the “ Piano and Furniture Movers and Helpers, No. 343,” from certain alleged illegal acts hereinafter more particularly described. The case was heard in the Superior Court by Richardson, J., who reported it to this court for determination.
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Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on October 20, 1910, seeking to enjoin the defendants, officers and members of the “ Piano and Furniture Movers and Helpers, No. 343,” from certain alleged illegal acts hereinafter more particularly described. The case was heard in the Superior Court by Richardson, J., who reported it to this court for determination. The report contained the following findings: “ The plaintiff is a corporation engaged in the sale and moving of pianos. It has a place of business in Boston on Boylston Street on the corner of Carver Street. The front of the building…
1Opinion of the CourtSheldon, J.
The strike of the plaintiff’s employees in May was for the purpose of obtaining higher wages and shorter periods of labor. It was a justifiable strike. L. D. Willcutt & Sons Co. v. Driscoll, 200 Mass. 110,113, 114, 130. It does not appear to have been carried on in any respect in an unlawful manner or by the use of any unfair coercion or wrongful means. Nor could we say that the particular act charged in the bill to have been done by the defendants would be in itself an unlawful means-of publishing the fact that a strike was going on. There was no picketing, no blocking of the streets, no…
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