United Mine Workers of America v. Golden Cycle Corp.

We will refer to the parties as they appeared in the trial court, where defendant in error was plaintiff and plaintiffs in error were defendants.

Plaintiff, operator of a coal mine in El Paso County, Colorado, filed its complaint in the district court alleging that no labor dispute existed at its coal mine; that sixteen of its employees had entered into a conspiracy with the United Mine Workers of America, hereinafter referred to as the Union, to violate certain sections of the Colorado Labor Peace Act. The complaint further alleged that the Union and the individual defendants had coerced and…