131 N.Y.S. 680 | N.Y. Sup. Ct. | 1911
The plaintiff is .the president of the International Typographical Union of North America, which has jurisdiction over various and numerous local organizations of persons engaged in the printing trades. The defendants are officers and directors of a corporation known as the National Association of Manufacturers of the United States. The plaintiff, by his complaint,' alleges that, on or about the 13th day of October, 1910, the defendants published false and defamatory matter following, to wit: “ Whereas the long continued, cowardly and recklessly illegal determination of the International Typographical Union to destroy the business of the Los Angeles Times and the influence of its owner, Gen. Harrison Gray Otis, in his efforts in behalf of the principles of industrial freedom has terminated in the destruction of the Times plant and building by dynamite, the murder of more than a score of employees of the paper and the injury
Demurrer sustained.