Kiser v. Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America

The Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, the defendant in the trial court and the defendant in error here, who will hereafter be referred to as the defendant, is a labor organization, and its agents and organizers came to the city of Staunton, Virginia, in 1934, for the purpose of securing members and organizing the workers employed in the men’s clothing industry, which craft was its specialty.

In the early part of 1935, the plaintiff in error, Mrs. D. A. Kiser, the plaintiff in the trial court and who will hereafter be referred to as the plaintiff, was employed by the firm L. Grief…