Buy-Wise Markets, Inc. v. Winokur

This is an application for a temporary injunction. The following facts are conceded: The plaintiff on starting business less than two weeks ago signed closed shop agreements with two unions affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. All its employees (forty-three) are members of one of these two unions. The defendants, a union affiliated with the C. I. O., are now picketing plaintiff’s store bearing placards announcing: “ This store refuses to employ members of Local 338, C. I. O.” While it appears that defendants at first bore false and misleading signs, and engaged in intensive…