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NORMAN v. MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD

No. 19433.

414 F.2d 73 (1969)

John W. NORMAN, William McClendon, Ardes Hervey, William Fairchild, Oscar T. Kennedy, L. L. Royston, James Lane, Freddie Wroten, J. W. Jones and L. A. Evans, Appellants, v. MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD, a Corporation, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

July 16, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Carter, Barbara A. Morris, New York City, George Howard Jr., Pine Bluff, Ark., for appellants.

Herschel H. Friday, Little Rock, Ark., for appellee, W. J. Smith and G. Ross Smith, Little Rock, Ark., on the brief.

David R. Cashdan, Atty., Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Washington, D. C., for amicus curiae, Daniel Steiner, Gen. Counsel, Washington, D. C., and Russell Specter, Asst. Gen. Counsel, on the brief.

Before BLACKMUN, GIBSON and BRIGHT, Circuit Judges.

FLOYD R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge.

This case represents another chapter in the long arduous litigation of the train porters against the railroads, and at times against railroad unions, in an attempt to preserve the train porters' position against adverse changes in the operation of passenger trains and predatory raids by their alleged white counterparts, the railway brakemen. The plaintiffs in this case are Negro employees of...

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