WITTSTEIN v. AMERICAN FEDERATION OF MUSICIANS OF U. S. & CAN.


223 F.Supp. 27 (1963)

Eddie WITTSTEIN et al., Plaintiffs, v. AMERICAN FEDERATION OF MUSICIANS OF the UNITED STATES AND CANADA, Defendant. Julius SCHWARTZ et al., Plaintiffs, v. ASSOCIATED MUSICIANS OF GREATER NEW YORK, LOCAL 802, American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada, Defendants.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

October 28, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Godfrey P. Schmidt, New York City, for plaintiffs.

McGoldrick, Dannett, Horowitz & Golub, New York City, for defendant American Federation of Musicians of U. S. and Canada, Emanuel Dannett, Herbert D. Schwartzman, Eugene Mittelman, New York City, of counsel.

Ashe & Rifkin, New York City, for defendant Associated Musicians of Greater New York, Local 802, David I. Ashe, New York City, of counsel.


LEVET, District Judge.

These consolidated actions are brought by members of the defendant unions challenging certain recent fiscal enactments of both the parent Federation and its Local 802. The complaint in Wittstein challenges the procedure at the Federation's recent annual convention by which a resolution was enacted, purporting to abolish the so-called 10% traveling surcharge tax and substituting therefor an increase in the per capita dues of members of the Federation...

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