Peters v. Central Labor Council

This is a suit to enjoin the defendant labor unions from picketing. From a decree dismissing the suit, the plaintiffs appeal.

Plaintiffs are copartners engaged in the business of manufacturing and selling steel products. Much of these products went into the channels of interstate commerce. Hence the substantive rights of the parties are affected by the National Labor Relations Act (USCA, Tit. 29, cb. 7, §§ 151-166) enacted by Congress in 1935, otherwise known as the Wagner Act. The defendants, for the purpose of brevity, will hereafter be referred to as the union. There was no dispute between…