Charles Cushman Co. v. Mackesy

This case arises out of petitions charging the respondents with contempt of court.

On April-9, 1937 two separate bills in equity were filed in the Supreme Judicial Court in the County of Androscoggin against certain labor organizers, some of whom were officials of the United Shoe Workers of America, an affiliate of the Committee for Industrial Organization. The plaintiffs in these bills were various shoe manufacturers located in the cities of Lewiston and Auburn who sought injunctions both temporary and permanent against the continuation of a strike alleged to have been called by the…