Levy & Devaney, Inc. v. International Pocketbook Workers Union

The plaintiff is a manufacturing corporation operating a plant in Bridgeport which it has at all times conducted as an open shop, employing both union and non-union help. Shortly after the plaintiff began business in Bridgeport, the defendant Union opened negotiations in an effort to induce it to unionize its factory, and upon its failure to do so called a strike in the factory, the only issue between the plaintiff and the defendant Union being the right of the former to maintain an open shop. Prior to the calling of the strike, the plaintiff had in its employ about sixty-five men and women…