Pennsylvania Railroad v. Transport Workers Union

SUR MOTION FOR PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION UNDER RAILWAY LABOR ACT, 45 U.S.C.A. § 151ff., AND PROOF

VAN DUSEN, District Judge.

The basic cause of this labor dispute is the contention of defendant TWU that the abolition of certain jobs at the plaintiff’s Altoona shops, resulting in the placing of over 3001 TWU members on furlough on January 11, would not have been necessary if plaintiff had not contracted its work out to outside contractors (N.T. 11 & pp. 28-31 and 39-40 of Kaelin deposition, being Document 16), and the frank statement of defendant TWU that it may not be able to control the…