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Show FROM BOYCOTTING i Unions Forbidden to Use Weapon, United States Court Decides De-cides Against Federation. Fed-eration. Firm of Jobbei-9 in Hats Is 1 the Plaintiff in the Case. SAN FRANCISCO, June 23.-2jJnlted Stales Circuit Judge Morrow has granted the application of DletMch F Loewe & Co. of Danbury. Conn.": for a temporal Injund Ion ag.ilr.si the t ali-fonnla ali-fonnla Btftte Federation of Labor and the San Francisco Labor Council, which has I. -n boycotting a local firm of jobbers job-bers n the hats manufactured bv Loewe The injjnction pendente lite was granted on the ground that the unions had conspired not only to protect pro-tect themselyi . but to destrov th propertj and ruin the business of the complainants Dafendants' Contention. The defendants" contention was that they had used neither force, threats noi Intimidation and had only urged upon the friends of labor the necessity of using their patronage for the benefit of labor a constitutional right. "But can It be truthfully said that this Is all that has been done bv them In enforcing the boycott?" the court proceeds, and points out that this Is the power of "combined numbers" and i that the company is helpless "unless they surrender the management and control of their business to a labor organization or-ganization " Rif;ht3 of Employees. "All employees have the right to quit their employment, out no right to combine com-bine to quit In order thereby to compel their employer to withdraw from a 'Mutually 'Mu-tually profitable relation with a third person for the purpose of Injuring the third person when the relation thus sought to be broken had no effect whatever what-ever upon -tho character of the reward of their services." |