STAPLETON v. MITCHELL

Nos. 4821, 4822, 4826, 4827.

60 F.Supp. 51 (1945)

STAPLETON et al. v. MITCHELL, Atty. Gen., et al. McELROY et al. v. SAME. AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR et al. v. SAME. CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS et al. v. SAME.

District Court, D. Kansas, First Division.

March 5, 1945.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis R. Gates, of Kansas City, Kan., for United Mine Workers.

Clif Langsdale, of Kansas City, Mo., and P. W. Croker, of Kansas City, Kan., for Building and Construction Trades Council of Kansas City.

Joseph A. Padway, Gen. Counsel, A. F. of L., of Washington, D. C., and James H. Barnes, of Kansas City, Kan., for American Federation of Labor.

Lee Pressman, Gen. Counsel, C.I.O., and Eugene Cotton, Asst. Council, C.I.O., both of Washington, D. C., and Harry C. Clark, of Kansas City, Mo., for C.I.O. and C.I.O. Affiliated Unions.

James H. Barnes, of Kansas City, Kan., and Harry C. Clark, of Kansas City, Mo., for Four Transportation Brotherhoods and I.T.U.

A. B. Mitchell, Atty. Gen., of Kansas, Allen Meyers, Co. Atty., Shawnee County, of Topeka, Kan., Samuel M. Terbovich, Co. Atty., Wyandotte County, of Kansas City, Kan., and Clayton Brenner, Co. Atty., Johnson County, of Olathe, Kan., for defendant.

Before HUXMAN and MURRAH, Circuit Judges, and RICE, District Judge.


MURRAH, Circuit Judge.

Each of these suits was brought by a national and international labor union and all of its integrated entities and affiliates, officers, agents and representatives, acting in both their individual and representative capacities, and certain non-affiliated individuals in their individual and representative capacities. The parties jointly and severally challenge the constitutionality of the 1943 Kansas Labor Law, Session Laws of 1943, c. 191, and...

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