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a The jurisdiction of this Court is invoked under the provisions of Section 240(a) of the Judicial Code, arc anended. The Court of Appeals has diction because in its view the public interest required imiediate determina- tion of the issues presented. I shall endeavor to present to the Court the facts involved and shall describe the national emergency which existed by reason of the defendants? conduct. I shall also state the basic grounds on which the Government's position is predicated. lr. Sonnett will document this presentation with ' a further diseussion of the issues and decisions involved I would like, at the outset of this case, to make it clear tnat the itar . 1.0F uie hat. is the ve DSU! a5 one Government seéel:ing to infrinze in the slichtest upon the cuarantees siven by the Constitution and the statutes of the United States tc labor senerally. The anplication of the Cla:rton Act and the : orris-LaGuardia Act to ordinary convlicts between employers and exployees is not here challenzed. Wages, \ hours anc vrorking conditions of tie -iners are not here involved. The Government does not ask this Court to establish any princivle which would + interfere with the recognized riznts of labér. The Government does seek, hovever, to uphold its right and authority to operate facilities, the possession of wh on of which it has talcen Hy q = Ei " 5 ng iO a Vv) a | pe Ie] Hy ey cr (D Es « ™ f a, : cr le rt ) Ves lets aaa eo Vis statutory authorization. And it seeks to vindicate the pover of the \~- Judiciary by the issuance of a tecporary restraining order to prevent irreparalle injury to the people of the Nation; to prohibit interference with the sovereign functions of the United States and to protect the jurisdiction