Folsom Engraving Co. v. McNeil
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two bills in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on June 23, 1919, to enjoin the officers and members of the Photo Engravers’ Union of Boston from prosecuting or encouraging a strike in the plaintiffs’ establishments, interfering with employment contracts of the plaintiffs or otherwise endeavoring to compel the plaintiffs to enter into a contract with the union.
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Two bills in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on June 23, 1919, to enjoin the officers and members of the Photo Engravers’ Union of Boston from prosecuting or encouraging a strike in the plaintiffs’ establishments, interfering with employment contracts of the plaintiffs or otherwise endeavoring to compel the plaintiffs to enter into a contract with the union. Without the filing of answers by the defendants, the suits were referred to a master “to hear the parties and their evidence upon the question of the issuing of a preliminary injunction as prayed for, to find the facts, and…
1Opinion of the CourtBraley, J.
The master reports that at a meeting of the local union, a voluntary association, of which the defendants are respectively the president and secretary, the other members being too numerous to be joined as parties though properly represented by the officers and members named, it was voted to submit to the “photo-engraving establishments of the city of Boston” a *276form of proposed contract conferring on the union the absolute right of “collective bargaining,” and of preferential employment with a minimum wage scale, and that permanent employees should not be temporarily “laid off” even if there…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Pickett v. WalshMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1906
- Berry v. DonovanMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1905
- Reynolds v. DavisMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1908
- Folsom v. LewisMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1911
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