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Lae Tye Bete the San Francisco Bay Area; did not involve the temporary war powers of the President; was not an equity suit; and the main issue involved had alreacy been decided by this Court in the Allen Bradley case. There is —_——y 3 a 4 + “a as much analogy between it and this case as there is between a firecracker } and tie atomic bomb. Counsel do not yet seem to realize that the action 4s ~ of the defendants here fell little short of causing a national disaster. } The Cernenters' case was but a ripple in the industrial life of the ’ res San Trancisco Bay Area, To return to the case at bar--the District Court granted the relief prayed ror, restraining the defendants from permitting to remain out~ standin: the notice issued by them on the 15th, or from issuing any further netice thet the Krug~Lewis Agreement was terminated, or from coercing, instigating, inducing, or encouraging the mine workers at the mines in tho Government's possession to interfere by strike, slowdown, walkout, secsation of work, or otherwise with the operation of the mines. The defendants were served with the ordor of the Court on the day it was issuede-jjovember i8th--but they took no steps to recall or vacate their notice of November 15th. They completely ignored the order of the United States District Court. On Novesber 20th, a strike in all of the bitutinous coal mines in the Government's possession went into effect. yoo Producticn of coal virtually ceased. "The economic creed of UMWA"-=no 7 contract - no work--meant just whet it said. And 50 on Hovember 2lst, the following day, we realized that Americats vising the court that the defendants hed wilfully and unlawfully disobeyed and violated the order of the court. The Government asked for a rule to Bhow cause why the defendants should not be punished for contempt. The