NELSON v. GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY

No. 2225.

145 A.2d 576 (1958)

John W. NELSON, Appellant, v. GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Appellee.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided November 12, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Donner, New York City, of the New York Bar, pro hac vice, by special leave of Court, with whom Joseph Forer, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellant.

Gerhard A. Gesell, Washington, D. C., with whom David B. Isbell, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellee.

Before ROVER, Chief Judge, and HOOD and QUINN, Associate Judges.


QUINN, Associate Judge.

Appellant is president of Local 506 of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, located at Erie, Pennsylvania. This union is the certified bargaining representative for appellee's employees working in its Erie plant. On December 9, 1953, appellee adopted a "policy" which declared in part that any of its employees who invoked the Fifth Amendment before a congressional committee and refused to testify concerning various communist...

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