Hammer v. Baum

Securely written into our law, and firmly intrenched as a sound civil principle, is the,right of employees to organize as a union for the purposes of protection and the conservation of the rights of the employed against possible aggression by the employer. In furtherance of this prerogative, when dispute arises between employer and employee, the union may, to invite support of the public and present its side of the case, indulge in what is known as picketing, a means adopted to tangibly and forcibly make known the existence of a controversy. But this right must be exercised in the manner…