Pacific Navigation & Trading, Inc. v. National Organization of Masters, West Coast Local 90

This is an appeal from an order the effect of which is to restrain the picketing, pendente lite, of the M. V. “Argo.” Basically, this is a jurisdictional dispute between two locals of the National Organization of Masters, Mates and Pilots of America, hereinafter called the “national organization.”

Seattle Local 6, one of the respondents, hereinafter called “Local 6,” claims jurisdiction

“ . . . over the licensed deck officers manning all types of vessels navigating predominently ub Puget Sound and adjacent inland waters, British Columbia and Alaska, which includes the operations of such vessels…