Kolb

This is a complaint for injunction, damages and declaratory relief brought by three seamen against an association of employers and a labor union in which it is alleged that the defendant employers own, operate or control substantially all of the merchant vessels of American flag registry engaged in interstate and foreign commerce on the Pacific Coast of the United States. It is further alleged that the defendants, both employers and union, have entered into a combination and conspiracy unlawfully and illegally to control the employment on such vessels of their chief stewards and that pursuant to said combination and conspiracy they have entered into certain contracts which require that the employers obtain their chief stewards exclusively through the facilities of the union. It is further alleged that in order to obtain employment through such facilities it is necessary that a, chief steward be or become a *265 member of the defendant union. And finally it is alleged that although plaintiffs have made application to join the defendant union, the defendant union has refused to accept them as members thereof.

As a result of the foregoing, it is alleged that plaintiffs have been…