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MACHINISTS v. STREET

No. 4.

367 U.S. 740 (1961)

INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MACHINISTS ET AL. v. STREET ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Set for reargument June 20, 1960.

Reargued January 17-18, 1961.

Decided June 19, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lester P. Schoene and Milton Kramer reargued the cause and filed a brief for appellants. Cleburne E. Gregory, Jr. was with them on the jurisdictional statement.

E. Smythe Gambrell reargued the cause for appellees. With him on the briefs were W. Glen Harlan, Charles J. Bloch and Ellsworth Hall, Jr.

Solicitor General Rankin argued the cause for the United States as intervenor. With him on the brief were Assistant Attorney General Doub, Morton Hollander and David L. Rose.

Briefs of amici curiae, urging reversal, were filed by Clarence M. Mulholland, Edward J. Hickey, Jr. and James L. Highsaw, Jr. for the Railway Labor Executives' Association, and by J. Albert Woll, Theodore J. St. Antoine and Thomas E. Harris for the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations.

MR. JUSTICE BRENNAN delivered the opinion of the Court.

A group of labor organizations, appellants here, and the carriers comprising the Southern Railway System, entered into a union-shop agreement pursuant to the authority of § 2, Eleventh of the Railway Labor Act.1 The agreement requires each of the appellees, employees of the carriers, as a condition of continued employment, to pay the...

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