Waterhouse v. Comer
U.S. Circuit Court for the Southern District of Georgia
In Equity. Petition by Waterhouse and others, styling themselves the “Committee of Adjustment of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers,” against EL M. Comer, receiver of the Central Bailroad & Banking Company of Georgia, asking that the receiver be directed to make a contract with the locomotive engineers.
1Opinion of the Court
SPEEB, District Judge.
Cases are frequent where persons intrusted with corporate properties have applied to the courts for the prevention or redress of grievances threatened or inflicted by labor organizations. This is the first instance of which we have any information where members of such an association have by concerted action, in an orderly way, sought the arbitrament of a court to adjust a controversy relative to the wages and conditions of their employment. The recent application to this court of the Order of Bailway Telegraphers, with similar purpose, was an attempt of this character.…
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