Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, John B. Gordon Lodge No. 376 v. Southern Railway Company, Georgia Southern and Florida Railway Company

GEORGE C. YOUNG, District Judge:

Appellants, defendants below, are the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen (a labor organization and collective bargaining representative for trainmen), John B. Gordon Lodge No. 376, a subordinate lodge of the Brotherhood, and numerous named officers and employees of either the Brotherhood or Lodge (sometimes hereinafter collectively “unions”). Appellees, plaintiffs below, are Southern Railway Company and Georgia Southern and Florida Railway Company (sometimes hereinafter collectively “railroads”).

On July 16, 1952, the Railroads and the Brotherhood entered into an…