Progressive Miners of America v. Peabody Coal Co.

SPARKS, Circuit Judge.

This appeal presents the question of the right of private individuals to maintain an action to enjoin an alleged violation of the National Recovery Act (48 Stat. 195) and to vacate certain orders of the administrative- boards created to handle such controversies as were here involved.

Complainants, the ¿ppellants in this proceeding, brought a bill in equity in their representative capacity, seeking to enjoin what they designated here as a civil conspiracy to deprive them of rights alleged to be conferred upon them by the National Industrial Recovery Act. They joined as…