W. A. Snow Iron Works, Inc. v. Chadwick
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on January 29, 1917, by a corporation engaged in the manufacture and installation in buildings of ornamental and other iron work against certain persons named as being officers and members of the United House-smiths and Bridgemen’s Union, No. 7, a voluntary unincorporated association, to enjoin and restrain the defendants from conspiring to prevent the plaintiff from completing a certain contract with one Crane and doing any acts…
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Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on January 29, 1917, by a corporation engaged in the manufacture and installation in buildings of ornamental and other iron work against certain persons named as being officers and members of the United House-smiths and Bridgemen’s Union, No. 7, a voluntary unincorporated association, to enjoin and restrain the defendants from conspiring to prevent the plaintiff from completing a certain contract with one Crane and doing any acts in furtherance of such conspiracy, from representing in any way to owners and architects or persons in or connected with…
1Opinion of the CourtBraley, J.
The master’s elaborate and exhaustive report states the relations of the parties as well as the economic and industrial conditions from which the present suit -originated. It-appears that the plaintiff, being engaged in the manufacture and. installation of all kinds of wrought ornamental and other iron work and in the employment of labor at its factory, conducts “what is-commonly known as an ‘ open shop,’ which, while it means strictly, that inquiries are not made of its employees as to whether or not. they are members of a union, nevertheless under present day con-, ditions, results in all…
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