Great Northern Ry. Co. v. Local Great Falls Lodge of International Ass'n of Machinists, No. 287

BOURQUIN, District Judge.

This is a hearing upon the interstate railway corporation plaintiff’s application to restrain, pending suit, alleged activities of the labor union defendants. No restraining order issued, and a situation fraught with possibilities of grave irreparable injury requires prompt decision. This, the temporary nature of the proceedings and relief, and the evidence, admit of brevity, without sacrifice of any necessary detail or of clarity.

The parties are in the throes of the nation-wide railway strike of ¡July 1, 1922. To plaintiff’s charge that defendants, in their refusal…