WESTINGHOUSE v. UNITED E., R. & M.W. of A.


383 Pa. 297 (1955)

Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Appellant, v. United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

November 28, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

P.H. Strubing, with him Francis E. Shields, J.H. Ward Hinkson and Pepper, Bodine, Frick, Scheetz & Hamilton, for appellant.

David Cohen, David Scribner and Charles J. Hepburn, Jr., for appellees.

Before STERN, C.J., STEARNE, JONES, BELL, MUSMANNO and ARNOLD, JJ.


OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE ALLEN M. STEARNE, November 28, 1955:

The question presented by this appeal is whether or not, in a labor dispute, mass picketing is legal unless accompanied by acts of violence, coercion or intimidation. The court below dissolved a preliminary injunction which enjoined defendants (appellees):

"(a) from preventing or attempting to prevent by mass or chain picketing, violence, intimidation or coercion, any person or persons from freely...

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