Cheetham v. Local No. 222, United Garment Workers

Lewis, J.,

This is a bill in equity for an injunction to restrain defendant from expelling plaintiff from membership in a workers’ union, to compel her reinstatement as a member, and for damages sustained by wrongful expulsion from the union and consequent discharge from her employment.

The bill avers that plaintiff had been employed for 15 years by the Nanette Manufacturing Company, and was a member of Local No. 222 of the United Garment Workers of America, whose membership consists of the employes of this company, with whom the company had a closed-shop agreement; that she was illegally…