Vegelahn v. Guntner
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed December 7, 1894, against fourteen individual defendants and two trades unions, alleging that the plaintiff was engaged in business as a manufacturer of furniture, in the premises numbered 141,143, 145, and 147 North Street, in Boston, and employed a large number of men in carrying on his business there, that there were in Boston certain associations named as defendants, which were composed of persons engaged in similar occupations to that of the…
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Bill in equity, filed December 7, 1894, against fourteen individual defendants and two trades unions, alleging that the plaintiff was engaged in business as a manufacturer of furniture, in the premises numbered 141,143, 145, and 147 North Street, in Boston, and employed a large number of men in carrying on his business there, that there were in Boston certain associations named as defendants, which were composed of persons engaged in similar occupations to that of the individual defendants, of whom the defendant Guntner was agent; that on or about October 11, 1894, the plaintiff received a…
1Opinion of the CourtAllen, J.
The principal question in this case is whether the defendants should be enjoined against maintaining the patrol. The report shows that, following upon a strike of the plaintiff’s workmen, the defendants conspired to prevent him from getting workmen, and thereby to prevent him from carrying on his business, unless and until he should adopt a certain schedule- of prices. The means adopted were persuasion and social pressure, threats of personal injury or unlawful harm conveyed to persons employed or seeking employment, and a patrol of two men in front of the plaintiff’s factory, maintained from…
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