Plumbing & Pipe Fitting Labor-Management Relations Trust v. Conditioned Air & Refrigeration Co., a Corporation

The district court has determined that payments made by the plaintiffs-appel-lees for the support of the Plumbing arid Pipe Fitting Labor-Management Relations Trust are in violation of Section 302(b) of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947. See 29 U.S.C.A. § 186 (b). Further payments have been enjoined.

For a statement of the case reference is made to the district court’s decision: Conditioned Air & Refrigeration Co. v. Plumbing & Pipefitting Labor-Management Relations Trust, 159 F.Supp. 887 .

In the time intervening before argument in this case, this Court’s decision came down September 16, 1957, in Sheet Metal Contractors Association of San Francisco v. Sheet Metal Workers International Association, 9 Cir., 248 F.2d 307 . Rehearing therein was denied on November 5, 1957. Certiorari thereon was denied on January 13, 1958. Sheet Metal Workers International Association v. Sheet Metal Contractors Association, 78 S.Ct. 367 .

We are unable to find any distinguishing facts in the Plumbing Trust which should produce a different result than was reached in the Sheet Metal Trust. The Sheet Metal case, as this one, was capably presented. We adhere to the decision of the division…