Blue Boar Cafeteria Co. v. Hotel & Restaurant Employees & Bartenders International Union Local No. 181

STEWART, Justice.

The primary question presented on this appeal is whether picketing under the facts of this case would require appellant, hereinafter referred to as “Blue Boar”, to coerce its employees to join appellee, called herein “the union”, in violation of KRS 336.130.

Blue Boar is a corporation which operates two cafeterias in the City of Louisville.

This controversy had its genesis on September 16, 1949, when Edward H. Weyler and Patrick F. Kirwan, representing the Louisville branch of the American Federation of Labor, hereinafter referred to as “Louisville A. F. of L.”, asked Blue Boar…