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LONG v. GEORGIA KRAFT COMPANY

No. 71-1476.

455 F.2d 331 (1972)

Linell LONG et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. GEORGIA KRAFT COMPANY et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

January 28, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard Moore, Jr., Peter E. Rindskopf, Atlanta, Ga., William L. Robinson, Lowell Johnston, Jack Greenberg, New York City, for plaintiffs-appellants; George Cooper, Paul Sherman, New York City, of counsel.

Oscar M. Smith, Rome, Ga., Dean E. Denlinger, Smith & Schnacke, Dayton, Ohio, for Georgia Kraft.

J. R. Goldthwaite, Jr., Atlanta, Ga., Benjamin Wyle, New York City, for Union.

George Anderson, Rome, Ga., for Local 804.

Warren Woods, Washington, D. C., for United Papermakers, etc.

Bobby Lee Cook, A. Cecil Palmour, Cook & Palmour, Summerville, Ga., for Local 654.

Before WISDOM, COLEMAN and SIMPSON, Circuit Judges.

WISDOM, Circuit Judge:

In this appeal we recognize the right of members of an all-black local union to protective transitional arrangements when their local is merged with a formerly all-white local, but we hold that such measures are inappropriate in this case.

For many years, International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite, and Paper Mill Workers, AFL-CIO maintained segregated locals at the Krannert Division paper mill of the Georgia Kraft Company in Rome, Georgia...

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