de Agostina v. Parkshire Ridge Amusements, Inc.

This case is presented on stipulated facts. The plaintiff labor union is composed of a membership of licensed motion picture machine operators. The defendant owns and operates several motion picture theatres in the borough of Brooklyn. On August 3, 1934, the parties hereto entered into two contracts under which the plaintiff union agreed to furnish and the defendant to employ at its theatres only motion picture machine operators who are members of the plaintiff union. When these contracts were entered into, and for a long period prior thereto, the defendant had been employing Empire State…