Walsh v. International Alliance

Fielder, V. C.

The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees and Moving Picture Machine Operators of the United States and Canada (hereinafter called International) is a trade union and one of its branches, Local 59, controls and exercises practically a monopoly over employment of stage employees in theatres in Hudson County. The complainant, Walsh, had been a member of the International and of the Local upward of thirty-three years. He had held the office of business manager of the Local several terms and in May, 1942, he was re-elected to that office by members of the Local for…