Wood v. O'Grady

In this appeal we deal with the propriety oran injunction issued by the court below to restrain peaceful organizational picketing because such picketing included “ an unlawful objective * * * by exerting economic pressure ”.

Section 876-a of the Civil Practice Act (L. 1935, ch. 477) declares, as a matter of State policy, that injunctions may not issue “ in any case involving or growing out of a labor dispute ” except after a hearing and after a finding of fact in the language of the statute that ‘ ‘ unlawful acts have been * * * threatened or committed ” which “ will be executed or continued…