Bolivian Panama Hat Co. v. Finkelstein

This is an application for an injunction in the usual form, restraining the defendant labor union from acts of violence and also from picketing. There was no objection made on the argument to the issuance of an injunction against acts of violence and intimidation, but the defendants claim the right of peaceful picketing.

In the case of an ordinary strike, they are, of course, entitled to picket. If, however, there is no strike whatever in the plaintiff’s premises, if all its employees are content, and the union is simply acting for purposes of its own, it has no right to interfere with…