Facts
The union in this case (the Belfast Journeymen Butchers' and Assistants' Association) had wanted to enforce a closed shop agreement against a meat producer (Leathem). They approach one of his customers (Munce) and told him that he should refuse to trade with Leathem unless Leathem enforced the closed shop. And they said that if Munce did not do as they wished, they would call a strike among Munce's own workers. Munce had been buying Leathem's beef for 20 years, though there had been no written contract about it, and none of Munce's workers had yet been induced to strike (break their contracts).
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