Haverhill Strand Theatre, Inc. v. Gillen
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on September 9, 1916, by a corporation engaged in the operation of a moving picture theatre in Haverhill against certain officers and members of a voluntary unincorporated association, called Local 302, American Federation of Musicians, and all other members of that local association too numerous to be named individually, to enjoin the defendants from enforcing a rule adopted by such local association, by which all members of the…
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Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on September 9, 1916, by a corporation engaged in the operation of a moving picture theatre in Haverhill against certain officers and members of a voluntary unincorporated association, called Local 302, American Federation of Musicians, and all other members of that local association too numerous to be named individually, to enjoin the defendants from enforcing a rule adopted by such local association, by which all members of the association were forbidden to perform in the plaintiff’s theatre unless the plaintiff should employ not less than five…
1Opinion of the CourtLoring, J.
The plaintiff corporation is a “moving picture and vaudeville house” in Haverhill. The defendants are officers and members of a labor union of musicians. They also are joined as representing the other members of it who are too numerous to be made parties defendant. For convenience we shall speak of the union as the party defendant. In the summer of 1916 the plaintiff had in its employ an organist, one Coburn by name, who was a member of the defendant union. He played an organ (part of the plaintiff’s building) at all performances given by it, and the music of the organ was the only music…
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