Street v. Shipowners' Ass'n of the Pacific Coast
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL PROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA. Appeal from a decree of the District Court which, on motion, dismissed the bill in a suit to restrain the appel-lees from enforcing rules adopted by them to regulate the employment Of seamen. I. The question of the jurisdiction of the lower court is not here involved. II. The appeal involves the construction and application of the Constitution of the United States.
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APPEAL PROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA. Appeal from a decree of the District Court which, on motion, dismissed the bill in a suit to restrain the appel-lees from enforcing rules adopted by them to regulate the employment Of seamen. I. The question of the jurisdiction of the lower court is not here involved. II. The appeal involves the construction and application of the Constitution of the United States. Appellees own, operate or control all of the vessels engaged in interstate and foreign commerce on the Pacific Coast; such vessels are one…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McKenna
The case is displayed by the complaint of -appellant (he was plaintiff in the court below) as follows: He is a native born resident of California, and a seaman, and has been engaged in interstate and foreign commerce by sea upon vessels plying between ports ón the Pacific coast, and between such ports and foreign ports, and is desirous of continuing to work on such vessels.
He is associated by and through an unincorporated association of persons called the International Seamen’s Union of America, with over ten thousand other persons working as seamen, and he brings this action in his own…
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