Westinghouse Electric Corp. v. United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Allen M. Stearns,

The question presented by this appeal is whether or not, in a labor dispute, mass picketing is legal unless accompanied by acts of violence, coercion or intimidation. The court below dissolved a preliminary injunction which enjoined defendants (appellees) :

“(a) from preventing- or attempting to prevent by mass or chain picketing, violence, intimidation :or coercion, any person or persons from freely entering or leaving plaintiff’s premises known as its Lester Plant, at Lester, Pennsylvania;

■ “ (b) from having in front of or in close proximity to. any…