UNITED ELECTRICAL, R. & M. WKRS. v. GENERAL ELECTRIC CO.

No. 12628.

231 F.2d 259 (1956)

UNITED ELECTRICAL, RADIO AND MACHINE WORKERS OF AMERICA, and John W. Nelson, individually, and as President of UE Local 506, Appellants, v. GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided March 22, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. David Scribner, of the bar of the Court of Appeals of New York, New York City, pro hac vice, by special leave of Court, with whom Mr. Joseph Forer, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellants.

Mr. Gerhard A. Gesell, Washington, D. C., with whom Messrs. Burke Marshall and Abram J. Chayes, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before EDGERTON, Chief Judge, and WASHINGTON and DANAHER, Circuit Judges.


EDGERTON, Chief Judge.

Appellant Union, certified representative of a number of General Electric Company employees, and appellant Nelson, a member of the Union, ask declaratory and injunctive relief and damages against appellee General Electric Company. The complaint says the Company violated a collective bargaining contract by adopting and enforcing a rule or "policy" that calls for suspension and discharge of employees who invoke the Fifth Amendment, or refuse to...

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