INTERNATIONAL UNION, ETC. v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 9943, 9944.

177 F.2d 29 (1949)

INTERNATIONAL UNION, UNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA, et al. v. UNITED STATES (two cases).

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided June 6, 1949.

Writ of Certiorari Denied November 7, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Welly K. Hopkins, Washington, D. C., and M. E. Boiarsky, Charleston, W. Va., with whom Messrs. Harrison Combs, Washington, D. C., and T. C. Townsend, Charleston, W. Va., were on the brief, for appellants.

Mr. Joseph M. Friedman, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, with whom Mr. H. G. Morison, Assistant Attorney General, and Messrs. Samuel K. Abrams, Roscoe L. Barrow and Jess H. Rosenberg, Attorneys, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Mr. Thomas E. Harris, Washington, D. C., filed a brief on behalf of the Congress of Industrial Organizations as amicus curiae, urging reversal.

Messrs. J. Albert Woll, Herbert S. Thatcher and James A. Glenn, Washington, D. C., filed a brief on behalf of the American Federation of Labor as amicus curiae, urging reversal.

Messrs. Henry Kaiser and Gerhard P. Van Arkel, Washington, D. C., filed a brief on behalf of the International Typographical Union as amicus curiae, urging reversal.

Before WILBUR K. MILLER, PRETTYMAN and PROCTOR, Circuit Judges.


Writ of Certiorari Denied November 7, 1949. See 70 S.Ct. 140.

PRETTYMAN, Circuit Judge.

These are appeals from judgments of the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia. One (No. 9943) is in a proceeding in which appellants were found guilty of criminal contempt and sentenced to pay fines for the offenses. The other (No. 9944) is from orders granting a temporary restraining order, denying a motion to dissolve that order, and granting...

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