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UNITED TRANSP. U., LODGE NO. 621 v. ILLINOIS TERMINAL R. CO.

No. 72-1093.

471 F.2d 375 (1972)

UNITED TRANSPORTATION UNION, LODGE NO. 621, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. ILLINOIS TERMINAL RAILROAD COMPANY, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided December 8, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph J. Swanson, Danville, Ill., George E. Lee, St. Louis, Mo., for defendant-appellant.

F. Daniel Welsch, Danville, Ill., Phillip J. Kardis, Paul L. Pratt, E. Alton, Ill., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before STEVENS and SPRECHER, Circuit Judges, and CAMPBELL, Senior District Judge.

SPRECHER, Circuit Judge.

This appeal involves the right of a railroad union to preserve the status quo until the several steps in the "major dispute" provisions of the Railway Labor Act are exhausted, in the face of the railroad's contention that only a "minor dispute" is involved.

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The Railway Labor Act, 45 U.S.C. §§ 151-88, was designed to avoid interruption in the flow of interstate commerce by providing procedures for the prompt...

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