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JOU-JOU DESIGNS v. INTERN. LADIES, ETC.

No. 360, Docket 80-7588.

643 F.2d 905 (1981)

JOU-JOU DESIGNS, INC.; Coco Boutique Inc.; Topaz Boutique, Inc.; and Topaz Boutique of Lexington Avenue, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. INTERNATIONAL LADIES GARMENT WORKERS UNION, AFL-CIO; Sportswear Joint Board, International Ladies Garment Workers Union, AFL-CIO; Local 23-25, International Ladies Garment Workers Union; Local 155, International Ladies Garment Workers Union; and General Trades Employees Union, Local 5A, AFL-CIO, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided February 25, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jonathan L. Sulds, New York City (Herman E. Cooper, P.C., New York City, of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellants.

Max Zimny, New York City (Chaikin & Chaikin, Eric B. Chaikin, Seth M. Kupferberg, New York City, of counsel), for defendants-appellees.

Before MOORE, NEWMAN and KEARSE, Circuit Judges.

MOORE, Circuit Judge:

The origins of this case lie in the sweatshops of early Twentieth Century America. "It has its genesis in a fiercely competitive struggle by manufacturers of garments at the turn of the century which caught the workers in the industry, at that time mostly recently arrived immigrants, in between, depressed their wages and resulted in intolerable working conditions." Greenstein v. National Skirt and Sportswear Association,

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