Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company

LEVENTHAL, Circuit Judge:

This appeal involves still another phase of the railroad work rules dispute that erupted again in 1959 when the nation’s major carriers served notices under Section 6 of the Railway Labor Act, 45 U.S. C. § 156 (1964), to abrogate existing rules regulating the use of conductors and trainmen, or “crew consist,” on yard and road crews. We have recently recounted the events that followed this opening round. 1 It suffices here to say that in 1960 the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen (BRT) served counter notices insisting that not less than one conductor and two trainmen be…