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CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND & PAC. R. CO. v. SWITCHMEN'S UNION

Civ. No. 8871.

187 F.Supp. 581 (1960)

CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND AND PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY et al., Plaintiffs v. SWITCHMEN'S UNION OF NORTH AMERICA, an unincorporated association, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court W. D. New York.

October 1, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sidley, Austin, Burgess & Smith, Chicago, Ill., Vaughan, Brown, Kelly, Turner & Symons, Buffalo, N. Y. (Walter J. Cummings, Jr., Chicago, Ill. and John E. Leach, Buffalo, N. Y., of counsel), for plaintiffs.

Leibik & Weyand, Chicago, Ill., John T. Collins, Buffalo, N. Y. (Lee Leibik, Chicago, Ill., of counsel), for defendants.

Neil R. Farmelo, U. S. Atty., Buffalo, N. Y., for United States amicus curiæ.

HENDERSON, District Judge.

This action arises out of a "major dispute", in the parlance of the Railway Labor Act (45 U.S.C.A. § 151 et seq.), as to which the Act prescribes certain procedures of negotiation, mediation, voluntary arbitration and, in specified instances, investigation and report by an Emergency Board, with various waiting periods during which strike action may not be engaged in. Plaintiffs claim that...

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