Detroit Tile & Mosaic Co. v. Mason Contractors' Ass'n

HICKENLOOPER, Circuit Judge.

This case at foundation presents the question of the right of union labor to strike, and to announce its intention to strike wherever the given situation may arise, as a means of compelling the employers of labor to adopt the “closed shop” rule in other, though related, trades. The District Court, after realigning the parties in accordance with what was considered their, basic or true interests in the underlying subject of the controversy, dismissed the bill for want of federal jurisdiction; such jurisdiction being finally asserted only upon the ground of diversity…