WIRTZ v. LOCAL 153, GLASS BOTTLE BLOWING ASS'N

Civ. A. No. 64-278.

244 F.Supp. 745 (1965)

W. Willard WIRTZ, Secretary of Labor, United States Department of Labor, Plaintiff, v. LOCAL 153, GLASS BOTTLE BLOWERS ASSOCIATION OF the UNITED STATES AND CANADA, AFL-CIO, (GBBA), Defendant.

United States District Court W. D. Pennsylvania.

August 26, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gustave Diamond, U. S. Atty., Stanley Greenfield, Asst. U. S. Atty., Louis Weiner, Regional Atty., Marshall H. Harris, Deputy Regional Atty., U. S. Dept. of Labor, Chambersburg, Pa., for plaintiff.

Ben Paul Jubelirer, Stuart E. Savage, Pittsburgh, Pa., Albert K. Plone, Plone, Tomar, Parks & Seliger, Camden, N. J., for defendant.


DUMBAULD, District Judge.

The question for decision here is whether a provision requiring attendance at 75% of the regular meetings of a union for a two-year period since the last previous election in order to be eligible as a candidate for office in the union is or is not among the "reasonable qualifications" permitted by Section 401(e) of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of September 14, 1959 (commonly known as the Landrum-Griffin Act), 73 Stat...

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