BROTHERHOOD OF LOCOMOTIVE FIRE. & ENG. v. ELGIN, J. & E. RY. CO.

No. 16876.

404 F.2d 80 (1968)

BROTHERHOOD OF LOCOMOTIVE FIREMEN AND ENGINEMEN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. ELGIN, JOLIET & EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Seventh Circuit.

December 4, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alex Elson, Willard Lassers, Aaron S. Wolff, Chicago, Ill., Thomas H. Clifford, Jr., Gary, Ind., Harold C. Heiss, Cleveland, Ohio, Elson, Lassers & Wolff, Chicago, Ill., Heiss, Day & Bennett, Cleveland, Ohio, Thomas H. Clifford, Jr., Lucas, Clifford & Wildermuth Gary, Ind., for appellant.

W. Gerald Thursby, Chicago, Ill., Hackbert, Rooks, Pitts, Fullagar & Poust, Chicago, Ill., of counsel, for appellee.

Before CASTLE, Chief Judge, and HASTINGS and KERNER, Circuit Judges.


CASTLE, Chief Judge.

This case arose under the Railway Labor Act, 45 U.S.C. § 151 et seq., and concerns the obligation of the defendant railroad to employ firemen, members of the plaintiff brotherhood (BLF&E), on a switching locomotive which is operated for the railroad's parent company, United States Steel Company, within the latter's Gary, Indiana plant. The railroad claims that, pursuant to the collective bargaining...

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