Morris v. Local Union No. 494 of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters

This is an appeal from a decree enjoining picketing.

Harlan Morris acquired a grocery store and meat market in Spokane in 1946. The market was operated separately *34from the grocery store, although it occupied a portion of the same premises. When Morris took the market over, it was a union shop employing a union meat cutter. Morris changed the method of merchandising meat from that of the traditional butcher shop, with over-the-counter sales, to that of sales of packaged meats. The meat was wrapped in cellophane with the price marked on each package, and was placed in what is referred to as a…