Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company v. United Railroad Workers Division of Transport Workers Union of America

In granting the injunction under appeal, which ordered the appellant railroads to reinstate their discharged diesel tug oilers pending resolution of the instant labor dispute by the appropriate statutory agency, Judge Bryan was particularly careful and thorough in supporting his action on grounds stated in a lengthy and reasoned opinion. Therein he set forth his basic conclusions that the precipitous abolition of these jobs by the railroads — with less than five days’ effective notice to the unions involved — was in violation of the Railway Labor Act, 45 U.S.C. § 151 et seq., and that…