Amalgamated Clothing & Textile Workers Union v. J. P. Stevens & Co.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

HAIGHT, District Judge:

Plaintiff Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (“ACTWU”) brought this action in continuance and escalation of the prolonged struggle between defendant J. P. Stevens & Co., Inc. (“Stevens”) and plaintiff and its predecessor unions. Until now the battlefields have been the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”), and circuit courts of appeal asked to enforce NLRB rulings against Stevens or punish Stevens for contempt. 1 ACTWU now invokes the antitrust laws and the civil rights laws and prays, in aid of its efforts to organize Stevens’…