Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-08-06 | Page 14 | Court Bars A. F. of L. from Picketing to Force S. F. Salesmen to Join Union

Court Bars A. F. of L. From Picketing To Force S. F. Salesmen to Join Union to fore them Into any union against their wills. They said they had their own union for collective bargaining purposes and they preferred it to any other union. The pickets, they said, had not been company employes, but were union men trying try-ing to force them to Join. The complaint said that other union .workers of the company had refused to pass the picket lines and that servicing, parts and other departments had halted operations op-erations as a result. SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. I (UP) The Howard Automobile company's com-pany's 32 salesmen today had a temporary restraining order against unions affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, forbidding them to picket their place of business. The salesmen charged that the pickets were trying to force them into a union against their will. The salesman obtained their order or-der from Superior Judge Edward GoodelL The judge ordered all A. F. of L, unions in San Francisco to show cause August 10 why they should not be restrained permanently perma-nently from picketing the company. com-pany. The 22 salesmen said they comprised com-prised the entire sales staff of the company; that they were opposed op-posed to joining the Retail Auto-mobils Auto-mobils Salesmen's union which was doing the picketing, and that the picketing was Illegal because they had no dispute with their employer and there was no law