Rambusch Dec. Co. v. Brotherhood, Etc., of America

CLARK, Circuit Judge.

This controversy involves the meaning and validity of a certain provision of the defendant Brotherhood’s constitution, which governs the labor relations of the plaintiff employer with the defendant union, that on a job by a non-local contractor the shorter work day and higher rate of wages of either the contractor’s home or the location of the work shall prevail. The complainant sought a declaratory judgment that this provision, if construed to require a contractor who comes from a district where wages higher than those paid locally prevail thus to pay higher wages than…