KING v. LABORERS INTERNAT. U. OF NO. AMERICA, U. L. NO. 818

No. 20583.

443 F.2d 273 (1971)

Ward KING, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. LABORERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA, UNION LOCAL NO. 818, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

May 13, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert B. Wallace, for amicus curiae.

Alfred W. Blumrosen, Newark, N. J., for appellant.

Stanley P. Hebert, General Counsel, David R. Cashdan, Robert B. Wallace, Attys., Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Washington, D. C., on the brief for U. S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, amicus curiae.

Jerry A. Farmer, Knoxville, Tenn., Norbert J. Slovis, Jerry A. Farmer, Knoxville, Tenn., on the brief; Lockett, Slovis, Weaver & Johnson, Knoxville, Tenn., of counsel, for appellee.

Before CELEBREZZE and MILLER, Circuit Judges, and O'SULLIVAN, Senior Circuit Judge.


CELEBREZZE, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee, involving an alleged practice of discrimination on the basis of race in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e et seq., as amended in 1966.

In May, 1968, Ward King filed a charge of discrimination with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, (hereinafter referred to as the EEOC) alleging...

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