Harold Hitz Burton

“ The policy of Virginia which is expressed in its Right to Work Statute is summarized as follows by its highest court:
'It provides in substance that neither membership nor non-membership in a labor union shall be made a condition of employment; that a contract limiting employment to union members is against public policy; and that a person denied employment because he is either a member of a union or not a member of a union shall have a right of action for damages.' Finney v. ”

“ Petitioners here engaged in more than the mere publication of the fact that the job was not 100% union. Their picketing was done at such a place and in such a manner that, coupled with established union policies and traditions, it caused the union men to stop work and thus slow the project to a general stand-still. ”

“ Richmond Trades Council,' that, as a result of such picketing, union members on the job had refused to continue to work there and that, therefore, the project had 'slowed to a standstill.' The complaint further alleged that the foregoing demands sought to induce respondents to take action which would subject them to criminal and civil liabilities under the Virginia Right to Work Statute and to break respondents' contracts with such of their subcontractors as did not employ all union labor. ”