Barth v. Addie Company

Plaintiff was a member of a union of moving picture machine operators in the city of New York. Defendant, an owner of motion picture theatres in that city, made a contract with the union for the exclusive employment of its members as moving picture machine operators for the year beginning September 1, 1933. On that date the plaintiff and five other members of the union became employed by the defendant under the contract, each at a weekly wage thereby fixed.

On September 3,1933, the defendant, without notice to any one, undertook to reduce the wage schedules established by the contract. Against…