Ackerman

These are appeals from judgments in two actions brought by the International Longshoremen’s & Warehousemen’s Union (ILWU), a labor union, and by certain individual members of that union, to enjoin the prosecution of four criminal proceedings pending in the circuit court of the Territory of Hawaii, one for riot and conspiracy, and three for riot. The court below entered final decrees granting permanent injunctions as prayed, against the Attorney General of the Territory, the County Attorney and Deputy County Attorney of the County of Maui, and in one case the County Chief of Police.

The criminal charges grew out of certain disorders which occurred during separate strikes by sugarworkers, and pineapple workers, members of the ILWU union. On the morning of October 16, 1946, during the sugarworkers strike, some three to four hundred members of that group were in a picket line, four columns deep, before the entrance to the sugar mill of Maui Agricultural Company at Paia, on the Island of Maui. Five workmen employed in the mill appeared for the purpose of crossing the picket line and going to work. The same men had attempted to pass through to work the previous day, but had been…