Martin v. Smith

The International Typographical Union of North America is a voluntary association, in the nature of a labor union, organized many years ago, and consists of about seventy thousand printers and three thousand mailers. In 1892 it granted a charter to a subordinate voluntary association called Newspapers Mailers’ Union No. 1 of Boston, in accordance with its practice of instituting subordinate local unions in various cities. The name of this local was later changed to Boston Mailers’ Union No. 1. We shall speak of these organizations as the International and the Local, respectively.

In 1902 the…