UNITED ELECTRICAL RADIO & M. WKRS. v. GENERAL ELEC. CO.

Civ. A. No. 1037-54.

127 F.Supp. 934 (1954)

UNITED ELECTRICAL RADIO AND MACHINE WORKERS OF AMERICA et al., Plaintiffs, v. GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Defendant.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

December 30, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Scribner, Arthur Kinoy, New York City, Basil Pollitt, Brooklyn, N. Y., Forer & Rein, Washington, D. C., for plaintiffs.

Gerhard A. Gesell, Burke Marshall, of Covington & Burling, Washington, D. C., W. J. Barron, New York City, for defendant.


McLAUGHLIN, District Judge.

Plaintiffs in this action seek a declaratory judgment, injunctive relief and damages.

The basis of the plaintiffs' claim for relief is the discharge from employment of the individual plaintiff Nelson in accordance with defendant Company's statement of "Policy concerning Admitted Communists, Saboteurs, and Subversives; and Employees who Invoke the Fifth Amendment in Order to Refuse to Testify on such Subject."

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