Stone Cleaning & Pointing Union v. Russell

The defendant, a contractor and builder, entered into an agreement with the plaintiff, a labor union, to employ none but its. members in certain lines of work. The defendant admits the making of such contract, and also its violation on his part, but pleads in extenuation that another union, embracing a greater variety of trades, and 'allied with a union of still other trades and crafts, acting in opposition and hostility to the plaintiff, demanded of him that he dispense with the services of the members of the plaintiff under penalty of a strike on all of his building operations. He thereupon…