Moore Drop Forging Co. v. Board of Conciliation & Arbitration
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on February 25,1921, and afterwards amended, seeking to enjoin the defendant board from holding a hearing under G. L. c. 150, § 3, respecting a labor dispute between the plaintiff and members of labor unions. The suit was heard by Carroll, J., a commissioner having been appointed under Equity Rule 35 to take the evidence. Material findings of the single justice are described in the opinion.
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Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on February 25,1921, and afterwards amended, seeking to enjoin the defendant board from holding a hearing under G. L. c. 150, § 3, respecting a labor dispute between the plaintiff and members of labor unions. The suit was heard by Carroll, J., a commissioner having been appointed under Equity Rule 35 to take the evidence. Material findings of the single justice are described in the opinion. By an order of the single justice a final decree dismissing the bill was entered. The plaintiff appealed. Material portions of G. L. c. 150, §§ 3, 5, 8,…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
This is an appeal from a decree dismissing a suit in equity brought to restrain the defendants, constituting the Board of Conciliation and Arbitration, from holding a hearing under G. L. c. 150, § 3, respecting a labor dispute between the plaintiff and members of labor unions. The material facts alleged in the bill and agreed to be true in substance are that in December, 1920, the plaintiff discharged from its employ fifty-eight men; that it then had four hundred and sixty-one men in its employment under written contract; that thereafter one hundred and twenty men left its service and…
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