Nash v. Mennan

In our opinion the evidence

establishes a labor dispute within the meaning of section 876-a of the Civil Practice Act. Although the members of the defendant union are not employees of the plaintiff, and the defendants were not attempting to organize plaintiff’s employees and were not interested in representing them as their bargaining agent, defendants had, nevertheless, a direct interest in the labor policies of plaintiff, who was engaged in the same industry as were the members of the defendant union, and whose wage scale was lower than that of the defendant union, for the work of erecting…