United Steelworkers of America, Afl-Cio, an Unincorporated Association v. Ralph C. Bishop, United States Marshal

RONEY, Circuit Judge:

The central question in this case is whether the Norris-LaGuardia Act deprives a district court of jurisdiction to enter, under the facts of this case, an injunction which required a strike-bound steel fabricating plant to give up material that had been delivered to it for fabrication, work that could not go forward because of the strike. We hold that the federal court lacked such jurisdiction.

The facts are simple, the procedure complex. A union was legally striking a plant which fabricated steel. A customer of the plant had delivered steel for fabrication but the plant…