SWITCHMEN'S UNION OF N. AMERICA v. NATIONAL M. BOARD

No. 8346.

135 F.2d 785 (1943)

SWITCHMEN'S UNION OF NORTH AMERICA et al. v. NATIONAL MEDIATION BOARD et al.

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Writ of Certiorari Granted May 24, 1943.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Donald R. Richberg, of Washington, D. C., with whom Mr. Rufus G. Poole, of Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellants.

Mr. Robert L. Stern, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, with whom Assistant Attorney General, Mr. T. W. Arnold, and Mr. John H. D. Wigger, Special Attorney, Department of Justice, of Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellee National Mediation Board.

Mr. Bernard M. Savage, of Baltimore, Md., with whom Mr. Alfred L. Bennett, of Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellee Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen.

Before GRONER, Chief Justice, and VINSON and RUTLEDGE, Associate Justices.


Writ of Certiorari Granted May 24, 1943. See 63 S.Ct. 1175, 87 L.Ed. ___.

VINSON, Associate Justice.

This appeal concerns a jurisdictional dispute under the Railway Labor Act1 between the appellee Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen (Brotherhood), and the Switchmen's Union of North America (Switchmen's Union), appellants. The right to represent the 6,087 yardmen2 employed

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