Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of California.

“The appeal in this case is from an interlocutory order granting an injunction pendente lite. The appellee brought a bill in equity, in which it alleged that it is a New Jersey corporation engaged in the lumber business and in carrying passengers and freight to and from various ports in California, using for that purpose three sea-going vessels; that in June, 1908, the appellants conspired and threatened to prevent, and to continue to prevent, the appellee’s vessels from leaving the port of San Francisco with crews of its watchmen and guards, and, in pursuance of such conspiracy, they endeavored forcibly to remove one of the appellee’s employes, and pinioned and imprisoned another of its employes, and committed many other acts of violence and unlawful interference with the business of the appellee; that the acts and doings of the appellants have become widely known, and the appellants threaten to repeat and continue such acts and prevent the vessels of the appellee from leaving the port, and from carrying passengers, and to interfere with and prevent the appellee from continuing its business; that such acts do interfere with the business of the appellee and its vessels, and if they are permitted to continue, the appellee will suffer irreparable damage, in that crews cannot be secured to man its vessels, nor can freight be secured to load its vessels; that the appellants are insolvent and without money or property sufficient to pay the damage sustained; that the appellee has already suffered through the acts complained of, in a sum exceeding $10,000; that an attempt to recover damages at law would require a multiplicity of suits: that, unless the acts of the appellants are restrained, the business of the appellee and its vessels will be totally destroyed; and that the appellee has no adequate remedy at law. The bill was supported by numerous affidavits showing that on or about June 1, 190G, the Sailors’ Union of the Pacific demanded of the San Francisco shipowners a wage increase of $5 per month in all steam schooners, which was .refused; that thereupon the unions struck; that the appellants created an executive committee known as the “Strike Committee,” composed of seven members of the Sailors’ Union of the Pacific, two members of the Pacific Coast Marine Firemen’s Union, and two members of the Marine Cooks’ and Stewards’ Association; that between 50 and 60 vessels were involved in the strike; that the said committee bought a launch and hired another, both launches being manned by members of the three unions and used as picket boats; and that the water front was also picketed by strikers. The affidavits showed specific acts of violence committed by the unions on the dates of June 5th, June 17th, June 27th, June 30th, July 3(3, July 4th, and July 11th; that at these various dates men on the launches forcibly boarded vessels in the harbor, made threats oí bodily injury to the officers in charge, terrorized passengers, to whom they used profane, insulting, and obscene language, committed brutal assaults upon crews, firemen, cooks, and stewards, and committed other acts, showing that they were in the active prosecution of an unlawful plan to interfere with, harrass, annoy, and prevent the operation, of the vessels and destroy the business and property of every nonunion shipowner in the port of San Francisco, for the purpose of coercing them into yielding to their demands.