Fruit Dispatch Co. v. National Maritime Union of America

YARRUT, Judge.

Defendants have appealed devolutively from a judgment of the District Court granting a preliminary injunction restraining defendants, their agents, etc., from picketing or in any manner interfering with the discharge, at the Port of New Orleans, of those Honduran ships operated by Empresa Hondurena de Vapores, S. A., which transport cargoes, mostly bananas, to plaintiff, more particularly the ten ships named. The picketing was to compel the owners to permit the ships’ crews to vote whether defendant Union should represent them as their bargaining agent.

Plaintiff, a corporation…