WALSH-HEALEY PUBLIC CONTRACTS ACT - RIGHT OF PROSPECTIVE BIDDER TO QUESTION WAGE DETERMINATION OF SECRETARY OF LABOR

Complainants, small steel companies in eastern Pennsylvania, Maryland and Connecticut, brought this action to enjoin the secretary of labor and others from applying the provisions of the Public Contracts Act, as construed, to the iron and steel industry. It was contended that the secretary's wage determination was the result of an erroneous interpretation of the word "locality" as included in the act. The district court dismissed the complaint. Upon appeal the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia granted the injuction.

On certiorari, held, reversed. The complainants have no standing in court to sue. Perkins v. Lukens Steel Co., 310 U.S. 113, 60 S. Ct. 869 (1940).