Smith v. Bowen
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on March 8, 1918, by a worker in shoe factories, who up to the time of thé acts of the defendants complained of in his bill was employed as a stock fitter in the shoe factory of Rice and Hutchins, Incorporated, at Marble-head, against the officers and members of a voluntary unincorporated association called the Shoe Workers’ Protective Union, praying that the defendants be forthwith enjoined from interfering with or from combining,…
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Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on March 8, 1918, by a worker in shoe factories, who up to the time of thé acts of the defendants complained of in his bill was employed as a stock fitter in the shoe factory of Rice and Hutchins, Incorporated, at Marble-head, against the officers and members of a voluntary unincorporated association called the Shoe Workers’ Protective Union, praying that the defendants be forthwith enjoined from interfering with or from combining, conspiring or attempting to interfere, directly or indirectly, by strike or otherwise, with the employment of the…
1Opinion of the CourtLosing, J.
This is a bill to enjoin members of the Shoe Workers’ Protective Union from combining to prevent the employment of the plaintiff by Rice and Hutchins. On findings of fact made in the Superior Court a decree was entered dismissing the bill, and from that decree the appeal which is now before us was taken by the plaintiff.
The judge found the following to be the facts of the case: Rice and Hutchins operate a shoe factory in Marblehead. “For at least two years” before the matters here in question they had *108“price list agreements with said [the defendant] Shoe Workers’ Protective Union.” Late ih…
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