Gilchrist v. United Mine Workers of America

WEICK, Circuit Judge.

Gilchrist & Sons, a partnership, and G & R Coal Company, Inc., a corporation, instituted action in the District Court against United Mine Workers of America, a labor organization,1 to recover compensatory and punitive damages for the alleged violation of the secondary boycott provisions of the Labor-Management Relations Act of 1947 as amended. 29 U.S.C.A. § 187. It was averred in the complaint that the plaintiffs were engaged in the mining of bituminous coal in the Jellieo, Tennessee-Kentucky area; that in March 1959 and subsequent thereto UMW induced their employees to…