Anderson

This is a suit to enjoin the Shipowners’ Association of the Pacific Coast, the Pacific American Steamship Association, and their members and agents from maintaining a combination in restraint of interstate and foreign commerce, and to recover damages. Plaintiff is a seaman, and sues on his own behalf and on behalf of other seamen. The defendant Shipowners’ Association is composed principally of shipowners operating in the coast-wise trade. The defendant Pacific American Association is composed very largely of shipowners engaged in intereoastal and foreign trade. In 1921 the Shipowners’ Association, joined shortly after by the Pacific American Association, opened an employment bureau, now called the Marine Service Bureau, through which seamen might be hired. The operation of this bureau gave rise to this litigation.

The complaint herein was sustained as stating a cause of action by the Supreme Court of the United States. Anderson v. Shipowners’ Association, 272 U. S. 359 , 47 S. Ct. 125 , 71 L. Ed. 298 . That court summarized its conclusions as follows (page 364 [ 47 S. Ct. 127 ]):

After the coming down of the mandate, defendants filed their answer, denying all of the material…