ALTON & SO. RY. CO. v. INTERNATIONAL ASS'N OF MACH. & A. W.

No. 24217.

463 F.2d 872 (1972)

ALTON & SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY et al. v. INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MACHINISTS & AEROSPACE WORKERS, Sheet Metal Workers' International Association, Appellant, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers et al.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided April 11, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Michael H. Gottesman, Washington, D. C., with whom Messrs. George H. Cohen, Washington, D. C., and Donald W. Fisher, Toledo, Ohio, were on the brief, for appellants.

Mr. Francis M. Shea, Washington, D. C., with whom Messrs. Richard T. Conway and Ralph J. Moore, Jr., Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellees.

Messrs. Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., and John Silard, Washington, D. C., filed memoranda on behalf of the United Transportation Union, as amicus curiae.

Before LEVENTHAL and WILKEY, Circuit Judges, and GOURLEY, Senior District Judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania.


LEVENTHAL, Circuit Judge:

This case is still another chapter in the volume of disputes—labor disputes and legal disputes—between carriers and unions. The carriers, plaintiffs and appellees, account for most of the nation's Class I railroads. They brought this action against four unions representing their shopcraft employees, and on March 2, 1970, the District Court granted the carriers a preliminary injunction restraining these unions from engaging in...

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