Court Opinion

ID: 9702125
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-25 22:56:06.903225+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:10:22.654831
License: Public Domain

O’Sullivan, J.
(concurring). I concur in the result. I am not satisfied, however, that the opinion makes clear the extent of its operation. Peaceful picketing for an illegal purpose should be enjoined. The illegality found in the case at bar stems solely from the statute. It lay in the effort of the defendants to coerce the plaintiff, contrary to the provisions of §§7391 and 7392 (10), into compelling its employees to join a union against their will. As the opinion aptly states: “It was thus an attempt to force the plaintiff to violate the statute ensuring to its employees freedom from interference by their employer.” If the object of the defendants had not been to coerce the plaintiff into an interference with that freedom, the statute would not have been vio*102la ted. In other words, not every attempt to coerce the plaintiff wonld be unlawful. An example of this, I apprehend, would have occurred if the defendants had -sought, by peaceful picketing, to compel the plaintiff to improve the working conditions of its employees.
In this opinion Baldwin, J., concurred.