Culinary Workers' Union No. 331 v. Fuller
Decision Date | 29 April 1937 |
Docket Number | No. 3114.,3114. |
Citation | 105 S.W.2d 295 |
Parties | CULINARY WORKERS' UNION NO. 331 et al. v. FULLER et al. |
Court | Texas Court of Appeals |
Appeal from District Court, Jefferson County; Geo. C. O'Brien, Judge.
Action for injunction by W. R. Fuller and others against the Culinary Workers' Union No. 331 and others. From a judgment for plaintiffs, defendants appeal.
Affirmed.
V. J. Wistner, of Port Arthur, for appellants.
Lipscomb & Lipscomb, of Beaumont, for appellees.
On the 1st day of September, 1936, on petition and prayer of appellees, W. R., J. P., and L. W. Fuller, the Fifty-Eighth district court of Jefferson county entered a final judgment against appellants, Culinary Workers' Union Local No. 331, J. William Le Blanc, John Etie, E. Rabey, and Pearl Louis, their agents, servants, and representatives, perpetually enjoining them from picketing appellees' restaurant and place of business in the city of Port Arthur. All evidence received on the trial had support in the pleadings.
Appellants' only proposition against this judgment is that it "clearly amounts to a prohibition against peaceful picketing and is contrary to the statutes of the state of Texas and to the declared public policy of the State"; in support of their proposition they cite the following articles: Revised Statutes of the state of Texas;
Art. 5152: "It shall be lawful for any and all persons engaged in any kind of work or labor, manual or mental, or both, to associate themselves together and form trades unions and other organizations for the purpose of protecting themselves in their personal work, personal labor, and personal service in their respective pursuits and employments."
Art. 5153: and Thomas v. International Seamen's Union (Tex.Civ.App.) 101 S.W.(2d) 328, 332.
On the facts of this case we overrule appellants' proposition. Appellees have in their employment about 25 men and women. They have discharged no employee nor retained one objectionable to the other employees. The employees are satisfied with appellees' government, with their wages, which for waiters and waitresses exceeded the union scale, their working conditions, and the conditions of their employment. There was no contractual relation of any nature whatever between appellees and appellants, nor, on the record, between appellants and appellees' employees; appellees conceded to their employees the right to join the union. On the 19th of August, 1936, appellants, through their agents, asked appellees to sign a contract with them to "unionize" their restaurant, and to employ only union labor. Appellees refused to sign the contract, and the next morning appellants established a picket line in front of appellees' place of business. The pickets carried placards on their backs reading: "We appeal to employees of Non-Union Cafes to strike for union wages"; ; "We appeal to all employees of Non-Union cafes to strike for union wages." Appellee R. W. Fuller testified that the pickets came "right up in front of the door trying to keep people out; almost blocked the door continually; * * * Well, they talked to people, `Don't go in there; it is unfair,' and write down names on pieces of paper." When picketing first began cooks and waiters were used as pickets; later a different type of picket.
As to the effect of the picketing on their business this witness testified further as follows:
Mr. M. F. Hill, president of the Port Arthur Trades & Labor Council, gave the following testimony:
The facts of this case fall squarely within the holding of the Fort Worth Court of Civil Appeals in Webb v. Cooks', Waiters' and Waitresses' Union, No. 748, 205 S.W. 465, 469 ( ), where, on identical facts, the court said:
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