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- Title: Saveall v. Demers
- Author : Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts
- Release Date : January 01, 1947
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 62 KB
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QUA, Chief Justice. The Superior Court, by its final decree, permanently enjoined the defendants, officers and members of International Journeymen Barbers Union of America, Local 284, from picketing the plaintiff's shop in Fitchburg and interfering with his business. The defendants appeal. The trial Judge found these facts: The plaintiff owns and operates a barber shop. He has no employees and performs all the necessary labor himself. In 1946 the union had about 40 members of whom 26 or more than half, were, like the plaintiff, owners of shops and employed no one. The remaining members were employees of master barbers. The plaintiff was not a member of the union. There was also an association of master barbers, all of whose employees were members of the union. The plaintiff was not a member of this association. Prior to 1941 the price for cutting hair in shops owned by members of the master barbers' association was 50 cents. The plaintiff charged the same price. Some time between 1941 and 1946 the master barbers' association advanced the price in the so called 'union shops' to 75 cents and on April 2, 1946, again advanced the price to $1. The union approved this last advance on April 12, and it became effective on April 14. The plaintiff continued to charge 50 cents. Several months later the union requested the plaintiff either to join the union or to raise his price 'to a fair level.' The plaintiff refused to join or to change his price. Thereafter, on November 7, the union voted to picket the plaintiff's shop until he raised his price for cutting hair to $1. Beginning November 12, two pickets at a time walked back and forth on the public sidewalk in front of the plaintiff's shop from nine in the morning until six in the evening, each carrying a sign reading, 'This barber shop unfair to organized labor. The Fitchburg Barbers Union.' 'There was no disturbance or violence or threat or forceful interference with customers.' Picketing was discontinued pendente lite upon the filing in this suit of a stipulation wherein the plaintiff waived any claim for damages.