Esco Operating Corp. v. Kaplan

The plaintiffs’ affiliated corporations own and operate sixteen moving picture theatres in the city of New York. All of these theatres had entered into contracts in October, 1931, with the Empire State Motion Picture Operators Union, Inc. (hereinafter referred to as Empire Union), which do not expire until January, 1937, and under the terms of which plaintiffs were obligated to employ as moving picture operators only members of the Empire Union. This union absorbed or assimilated an earlier organization known as the Brotherhood of Motion Picture Projectionists. • During the summer of 1931…