Tilton v. Missouri Pacific Railroad

BLACKMUN, Circuit Judge.

These are separate actions instituted under § 9 of the Universal Military Training and Service Act, as amended, *87150 U.S.C.Appendix § 459.1 The three plaintiffs, employees of Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, were each promptly reinstated in railroad employment following satisfactory completion of a period of military service. By these suits, however, the plaintiffs, represented by government counsel as authorized by § 9(d) of the Act, now seek to compel the railroad to grant them the higher seniority which they allegedly would have attained had military service not…