BROTHERHOOD OF LOC. FIRE. & ENG. v. CHICAGO, B. & Q. R. CO.

Civ. A. Nos. 2919-63, 2921-63.

225 F.Supp. 11 (1964)

BROTHERHOOD OF LOCOMOTIVE FIREMEN AND ENGINEMEN et al., Plaintiffs, v. CHICAGO, BURLINGTON & QUINCY RAILROAD COMPANY et al., Defendants. BROTHERHOOD OF LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS, Plaintiff, v. UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD et al., Defendants.

United States District Court District of Columbia.

January 8, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lester P. Schoene, Washington, D. C., for plaintiffs in Civil Action No. 2919-63.

Max Malin, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff in Civil Action No. 2921-63.

Francis M. Shea, Washington, D. C., for defendant carriers.

John W. Douglas, Asst. Atty. Gen., Washington, D. C., for defendants Seward and Kennedy, and for the United States of America as intervening defendant.


HOLTZOFF, District Judge.

These two actions are brought to impeach and set aside an award of a special arbitration board created under an act of Congress approved August 28, 1963, Public Law 88-108, 77 Stat. 132, in order to avoid a threatened nationwide railroad strike, which was then imminent. The function of the board was to arbitrate and make an award concerning two basic issues that were in controversy between the railroads and their staffs. The plaintiffs in...

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