Kansas City Luggage & Novelty Workers Union, Local No. 66, Afl-Cio v. Neevel Luggage Manufacturing Company, Inc.

SANBORN, Circuit Judge.

Appellant union, which has a collective bargaining agreement with appellee, Neevel Luggage Manufacturing Company, Inc., brought this action to enforce the award of an arbitrator, selected by the parties, determining that the Company, in laying off eight of its employees, who were members of the Union, had violated provisions of the collective agreement relating to layoffs and that the aggrieved employees were entitled to be reinstated without loss of seniority or of pay.

The question submitted, by agreement, to the arbitrator was:

“Was the layoff of Caroline De Maria on…