Opinion ID: 1494500
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Injunctive power of the court.

Text: The district court held that the demand on the Breweries of the Teamsters' Union for recognition as the bargaining agent of the brewery deliverymen and the boycott and acts of persuasion and coercion to compel such recognition do not involve a labor dispute within the provisions of the Norris-La Guardia Act, 47 Stats. 70, 29 U.S.C.A. § 101 et seq., and hence that it had the usual power to grant injunctive relief to prevent interference with interstate commerce. The court relied on United Electric Coal Companies v. Rice, 7 Cir., 80 F.2d 1. Its decision was rendered without the guidance of Supreme Court holdings to the contrary: Lauf v. Shinner & Co., 303 U.S. 323, 329, 58 S.Ct. 578, 82 L. Ed. 872, decided but 8 days before, and New Negro Alliance v. Sanitary Grocery Co., 303 U.S. 552, 559, 58 S.Ct. 703, 82 L.Ed. 1012, decided a few days after. Nor is there merit in the contention that Congress in the National Labor Relations Act has given either this or the district court a power to enjoin in the case before us greater than that permitted by the Norris-La Guardia Act. The description of a labor dispute is the same in each act. [2] The courts' power to enjoin without the restriction of the Norris-La Guardia Act when granting appropriate temporary relief or a restraining order under Section 10(h) of the National Labor Relations Act, 49 Stats. 455, 29 U.S.C.A. § 160(h), is that of giving appropriate temporary relief or restraining order sought by the Board under the preceding paragraph (e) of the same section 10, 49 Stats. 454, 29 U.S.C.A. § 160 (e), which that paragraph states the court shall have power to grant [3] and of giving the similar relief to the Board in paragraph (f) of Section 10, 49 Stats. 455, 29 U.S.C.A. § 160(f). It is a relief appropriate and incidental to proceedings in the court concerning an order theretofore made by the Board. Since the acts enjoined were committed in the course of and for the purposes of furthering the Teamsters' aims in a labor dispute as defined in the Norris-La Guardia Act, it was beyond the power of the court to enjoin any of them, so far as they are lawful. Insofar as the acts are found to be unlawful, the Norris-La Guardia Act permits injunctive relief only if it be shown, inter alia, that the public officers charged with the duty to protect complainant's property are unable or unwilling to furnish adequate protection. Section 7(e), 47 Stats. 71, 29 U.S.C.A. § 107(e). Neither the pleadings nor findings mention the public officers, much less any inability or unwillingness on their part to furnish such protection. The decree enjoining the Teamsters' Union is reversed, the injunction ordered dissolved and the cause remanded for such further action as may be or become appropriate. The district court is directed to permit plaintiffs and defendant brewing companies to amend their pleadings, if so advised, (1) to show facts bringing the case within the exceptions specified in section 4 respecting fraud and violence and in section 7 respecting unlawful acts of the Norris-La Guardia Act, 29 U.S.C.A. §§ 104, 107, and (2) to show, more clearly than is now shown, a combination or conspiracy by appellants in restraint of interstate commerce, to present for further consideration the contention of a violation of the antitrust laws, particularly §§ 1 and 3 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C.A. §§ 1, 3. Each party shall pay his or its own costs and bear no cost liability to any other.