Local Union 1219 v. United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners of America

ALDRICH, Senior Circuit Judge.

Defendant, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, a large international union [hereinafter International] with five territorially distinct locals in Maine [hereinafter the carpenter locals], granted plaintiff local [hereinafter Local 1219] a charter on June 15, 1966. The charter gave Local 1219 jurisdiction to represent millwrights in Maine, a jurisdiction which had previously been exercised by the carpenter locals. The carpenter locals objected to the new local and the threat that it posed to their jurisdiction over millwrights. They…