Steffes v. Motion Picture Machine Operators’ Union

From Decisions of Courts Affecting Labor: 1917 (in Labor Laws of the United States Series: Issues 12–16):

Albert Steffes, who carries on a motion picture theater in Minneapolis, petitionee1 for an injunction against the union named to restrain interference with his business, consisting in part of the hiring of a man to carry back and forth in front of the theater a banner with the words, ” This theater is unfair to or ganized labor.” The dispute between him and the union was brought about by his employment of a machine operator who was not a union man. As the decision in the district court of Hennepin County had denied the injunction, Judge Hallam, who delivered the opinion for the supreme court, remarked that the truth of facts which were indispute must be taken to be favorable to tlie defendants, and that certain acts charged to them, which were distinctly unlawful, would be held not proven.

See also: William A. Steffes