Case Name: LA FRANCE ELEC. CO. v. ELEC. WORKERS et al
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1923-05-29
Citations: 1 Ohio Law Abs. 865
Docket Number: No. 17732
Parties: LA FRANCE ELEC. CO. v. ELEC. WORKERS et al
Judges: 
Reporter: The Ohio Law Abstract
Volume: 1
Pages: 865–865

Head Matter:
No. 896
LA FRANCE ELEC. CO. v. ELEC. WORKERS et al
Ohio Supreme Court
No. 17732.
Decided May 29, 1923
To Appear in-Ohio State Reports
216. INJUNCTION.
Court will not enjoin peaceful picketing and peaceful discussion and persuasion by strikers. (For official syllabus, see below.)
Attorneys — Tracy, Chapman & Welles, Toledo, for Electrical Co.; Hackett & Lynch, Toledo, for the Union.

Opinion:
ALLEN, J.
Epitomized Opinion
Action by Co. to enjoin union. After the expiration of a contract between the Co. and the Electrical Union, the Co. tried to establish an open shop. The union caused a strike and the Common Pleas Court of Lucas county enjoined acts of violence and intimidation, but the court permitted peaceful picketing and peaceful persuasion of employees to leave their work under a contract which was terminable at will. The Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment. The Supreme Court in affirming the judgment held, in official Syllabus, 24 Abs. 452, as follows:
1. "Picketing the plant of an employer by strikers during a strike and peaceful discussion and persuasion of employees to leave their employment, which under the terms of their contract is terminable at will, and peaceful persuasion of men applying for employment not to work for that particular employer, if unaccompanied by physical violence, abuse, intimidation, or any form of coercion or duress, direct or indirect, are not unlawful and cannot be enjoined."