Legal Opinion
United Telegraph Workers, Afl-Cio v. Federal Communications Commission and United States of America, Western Union Telegraph Company, Intervenor
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided December 4, 1970No. 23852PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIS, Judge:
Western Union filed with the Federal Communications Commission a tariff which became effective January 1, 1970 for a new service called Mailgram which it proposed to offer in cooperation with the Post Office department for a two-year experimental period. United Telegraph Workers, the union which represents all of Western Union’s employees in the continental United States, 1 petitioned to suspend the tariff. The Commission denied the petition, without a formal hearing, in a memorandum opinion and order of which the union now seeks review.
The Mailgram experiment is an attempt to…
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