TELEGRAPHERS v. RY. EXPRESS AGENCY

No. 343.

321 U.S. 342 (1944)

ORDER OF RAILROAD TELEGRAPHERS v. RAILWAY EXPRESS AGENCY, INC.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 28, 1944.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. William G. McRae, with whom Mr. Leo J. Hassenauer was on the brief, for petitioner.

Mr. Blair Foster, with whom Messrs. A.M. Hartuny and H.S. Marx were on the brief, for respondent.


MR. JUSTICE JACKSON delivered the opinion of the Court.

This hoary litigation presents the question whether a carrier by contracts with individual employees made in 1930 could supersede or expand terms of an agreement collectively bargained between the employer and the union in 1917, in view of the provisions of the Railway Labor Act of 1926, which was applicable when the controversy arose.

Petitioner was a union designated to represent certain crafts and...

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