People v. Desowitz

Bromberger, C. M.

The defendants are charged with violation of section 962 of the Penal Law. The facts which form the basis of the prosecution are relatively simple. The complainant, a member of District Council No. 9 of the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers of America, testifies that he was intermittently employed as a painter by the defendant Desowitz, a member of the Association of Master Painters of the City of New York. The defendant Greenstein is another employee of his codefendant.

At the time of the complainant’s re-employment following a strike, a trade agreement, by…