Braddom v. Three Point Coal Corporation

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Tilbord

Reversing.

This action was instituted on August 28, 1939, by forty-six members of United Mine "Workers of America, District 19, against that organization and their employer, the Three Point Coal Corporation. Nine of them were granted the relief sought, and thirty-six have appealed. In their petition they alleged that their membership in the organization had been obtained “involuntarily and against their will and consent through force, threats, intimidation, mob violence, fraud and coercion”; and that through the same means they had been forced to sign what…