Florsheim Shoe Store Co. v. Retail Shoe Salesmen's Union

This is an action in equity by plaintiffs, who operate twelve retail stores in New York and Brooklyn, to restrain the defendants from picketing their premises in this State and from the performance of other coercive, oppressive and unlawful acts. The defendants are labor unions affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organization. No answer has been interposed to the complaint. However, it is alleged in the complaint that no “ labor dispute ” exists and it appears that such proceedings have not been taken by plaintiffs as would be required preliminary to the granting of an injunction in…