Frank Paul Ventimiglia, James Harold Parran, and Weather-Mastic, Inc. v. United States

SOBELOFF, Circuit Judge,

The Taft-Hartley Act forbids the payment of money by an employer subject to its provisions to “any representative 0f any of his employees.” 29 U.S.C.A. § 186(a). The defendants were indicted f0r three substantive violations of this law and for conspiracy to violate it. At a trial before the District Judge, sitting without a jury, the defendants were acquitted of the substantive offenses, but convicted of the conspiracy. The sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the conviction is the question raised by this appeal.

Weather-Mastic, Inc., is a non-unionjzec[ contractor…