McCord v. Thompson-Starrett Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
• Appeal by the defendants, the Thompson-Starrett Company and another, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 10th day of March, 1908, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the New York Trial Term, a jury having been waived.
1Opinion of the Court
Scott, J.:
We would find no difficulty in affirming this judgment if the Building Trades Employers’ Association had gone no further than to order a general “lock out” of the members of the Brotherhood of Carpenters.
The communication of September 22, 1904, however, does go *131farther, and instructs the members of the association that no men may be set to work, or retained at work, who do not at once join a particular labor union, the Greater New York Carpenters’Union.
This requirement, if it is to be considered as the act of the association, was against public policy, illegal and void. (Curran v.…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Curran v. . GalenNew York Court of Appeals · 1897
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