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MUSICIANS' PRO. U. LOC. NO. 274 v. AMERICAN FED. OF MUSICIANS

Civ. A. No. 71-809.

329 F.Supp. 1226 (1971)

MUSICIANS' PROTECTIVE UNION LOCAL NO. 274 A. F. OF M., a labor organization, and James Adams, on his own behalf and on behalf of all others similarly situated v. The AMERICAN FEDERATION OF MUSICIANS OF the UNITED STATES AND CANADA.

United States District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.

June 30, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martin Techner, Milton Lazaroff, and A. Jay Molluso, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiffs.

Bernard Katz, Philadelphia, Pa., Ronald Rosenberg, VanArkel & Kaiser, Washington, D. C., for defendant.

OPINION AND ORDER

EDWARD R. BECKER, District Judge.

I. PRELIMINARY STATEMENT.

This case presents the question of whether an international union can expel from its ranks a local affiliate, whose membership is predominantly black, because the local refuses to accede to an order by the International requiring it to merge with another local whose membership is almost totally white, so as to eliminate the...

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