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The complaint seeks to enforce and prevent violation of the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, 7 U.S.C.A. § 601 et seq., which in all its phases has received the constitutional sanction of the Supreme Court, United States v. Rock Royal Co-Operative, Inc., 1939, 307 U.S. 533 , 59 S.Ct. 993 , 83 L.Ed. 1446 .

The defendants against whom it is directed are individuals and associations who are “growers”, “handlers” and “shippers” of citrus fruit in interstate commerce. They are charged with a series of acts violating and designed to hinder the enforcement of Order No. 2, issued by the Secretary of Agriculture on January 4, 1936, and the amendments to it.

*796 The defendants have instituted in the Superior Court of California for Los Angeles County, an action directed against C. E. Myers and others who are the duly appointed, qualified and acting members and alternate members of the Growers’ Advisory Committee and the Distribution Committee, together with the duly appointed and acting Assistant Secretary of these committees, operating under Order No. 2.

The object of that action is to prevent the members from performing any of the acts required by them to be performed…