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EQUAL EMP. OP. COM'N v. INTERNATIONAL LONG. ASS'N

No. 74-1053.

511 F.2d 273 (1975)

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. INTERNATIONAL LONGSHOREMEN'S ASSOCIATION et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

April 11, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William A. Carey, Gen. Counsel, Joseph T. Eddins, Assoc. Gen. Counsel, Charles L. Reischel, Beatrice Rosenberg, Richard S. Cohen, Asst. Gen. Counsels, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff-appellant.

Warner F. Brock, Chris Dixie, Houston, Tex., D. J. Lerma, Brownsville, Tex., Michael Crawford, Arthur J. Mandell, Herman Wright, Houston, Tex., L. Dewitt Hale, Corpus Christi, Tex., for defendants-appellees.

Before THORNBERRY, GOLDBERG and GODBOLD, Circuit Judges.

GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge:

This suit poses for us, in the year 1975, the question of the legality of maintaining segregated black and white unions. Workers in these unions perform the same basic functions, for the same bosses, in the same ports but do so out of different locals. Defendants claim that this division is no more than an amenity for those who wish to associate with "their own". We believe that the effect, if not the intention, is far more invidious, in that...

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