Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. v. Everett District Council of Lumber & Sawmill Workers

This court, in common with nearly all the courts of this country, including particularly the United States supreme court, has in recent years held that "peaceful picketing" as such is lawful and may not be enjoined. But what is "peaceful picketing"? The meaning of that term or, more properly, the scope of permissible activity included therein, is the rock upon which the claims of individuals, and the pronouncements of judges as well, have split.

If all men were agreed, or accepted the principle, that "peaceful picketing" is simply a method of human communication through which an individual, or…