WIRTZ v. HOTEL, MOTEL AND CLUB EMPLOYEES UNION, LOCAL 6

No. 66 Civ. 626.

265 F.Supp. 510 (1967)

W. Willard WIRTZ, Secretary of Labor, United States Department of Labor, Plaintiff, v. HOTEL, MOTEL AND CLUB EMPLOYEES UNION, LOCAL 6, Defendant.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

March 20, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert M. Morgenthau, U. S. Atty. for Southern Dist. of New York, for plaintiff; Robert E. Kushner, Ronald P. Huntley, Asst. U. S. Attys., of counsel.

Cohn & Glickstein, New York City, for defendant; Sidney E. Cohn, Jerome B. Lurie, Leonard Leibowitz, New York City, of counsel.


WYATT, District Judge.

The principal question here is whether prior service as a Union officer, on a Union Board, or in the Union Assembly, is a "reasonable" qualification, under the Landrum-Griffin Act, for candidacy for office in the defendant Union.

Section 401(e) of the Act (29 U.S.C. § 481(e)), which may also be cited as the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959, provides that in any union election required by the Act "every member...

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