Solotaroff v. Willner Edelstein Amusement Co.

The plaintiff, who is the secretary of a labor union, brought this action to recover on twenty-two assigned claims, partly for weekly wages, at nineteen dollars and fifty cents, of bill posters, and partly for weekly wages, at ten dollars, of ushers in a theatre. All the plaintiff’s assignors worked Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of the week in question. All of them were members of affiliated unions called the Theatrical Council. Plaintiff testified that on Thursday there was a strike by one or two of the unions with which their unions were affiliated. The evidence shows that an audience of…