Int'l Ticket Co. v. Wendrich
| Decision Date | 26 January 1938 |
| Docket Number | No. 235.,235. |
| Citation | 196 A. 474,123 N.J.Eq. 172 |
| Parties | INTERNATIONAL TICKET CO. v. WENDRICH et al. |
| Court | New Jersey Supreme Court |
Syllabus by the Court.
Defendants, consisting of five labor unions and individual representatives thereof, demanded the unionization of complainant's plant, which was an "open shop" and as a condition precedent to discussion of wages, hours, etc., required the execution of a contract unionizing the plant. Such execution in the first instance being refused, defendants called a strike, and, in addition to picketing, various acts of violence were committed. Held, that the injunction ordered in this case was proper.
Appeal from Court of Chancery.
Suit for injunction by the International Ticket Company against Harry Wendrich and others, consisting of five labor unions and individual representatives thereof, to enjoin picketing, and from interfering with complainant's business. From a decree of the Court of Chancery, 122 N.J.Eq. 222, 193 A. 808, for the complainant, the defendants appeal.
Affirmed.
Meyer M. Semel, of Newark (Herman Marx, of Newark, on the brief), for appellants. Frederic M. P. Pearse and Max Mehler, both of Newark, for respondent.
The appeal is from an injunction order dated July 13, 1937, restraining defendants from (a) picketing in the streets in and about the homes of complainant's officers and employees; (b) from interfering with, hindering or obstructing the conduct of complainant's business on the premises aforesaid, or ingress to and egress from the premises by officers, employees, customers, etc.; and (c) from directing or persuading any persons not defendants to violate the order or any other, order in the proceeding, or aiding or abetting them in such violation.
The material facts are plain. The defendants, or some of them, undertook to compel the unionization of complainant's plant. At a conference between Manshel, the complainant's president, and Wendrich and Neudoerffer, two of the defendants, Wendrich produced a form of agreement, framed to accomplish that result, and demanded that it be signed as a condition precedent to further negotiation about wages, hours, etc. Manshel refused to sign it as a condition precedent, whereupon a strike was at once called, followed by picketing and acts of violence and threats, including the forcible capture of a loaded truck and driving it into the river.
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