Frank Schmidt Planing Mill Co. v. Mueller

Appellant is. engaged in the planing mill business and manufactures and sells a general line of mill a,nd cabinet work for houses. It operates an open shop. The Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiiiers is endeavoring to unionize planing mill workers and has adopted a trade rule prohibiting union men from handling mill and cabinet work not bearing the union label. Appellant brought this action in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis against respondent Mueller, President of the Brotherhood’s District Council, and others to restrain a boycott of its business and products, entered into for…