ASSOCIATION OF ROCK ISLAND M. & P. P. EMPLOYEES v. LOWDEN

No. 1891-N.

15 F.Supp. 176 (1936)

ASSOCIATION OF ROCK ISLAND MECHANICAL AND POWER PLANT EMPLOYEES et al. v. LOWDEN et al.

District Court, D. Kansas, First Division.

March 26, 1936.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James E. Smith, Earl H. Hatcher, Frank H. McFarland, and Clayton M. Davis, all of Topeka, Kan., for plaintiffs.

Summerfield S. Alexander, U. S. Dist. Atty. for the District of Kansas, of Topeka, Kan., Leo F. Tierney and Harold F. Collins, Sp. Assts. to the Atty. Gen., of the United States, for defendants.


HOPKINS, District Judge.

The suit is one in equity testing legality of a contract whereby defendant railway undertook collection of dues owing to a company union by employees of defendant who were members of the company union. The contract provides for collection of the dues by means of pay roll deductions. The plan was first put in use in 1925 and the contract here involved was made effective in January, 1933. Legality of the contract is brought in question by reason...

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