Legal Opinion
Tunstall v. Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided April 9, 1945No. 5125PublishedCited by 67 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PARKER, Circuit Judge.
This is a suit by a Negro fireman employed by the Norfolk-Southern Railway Company, who brings the suit in behalf of himself and other Negro firemen employed by that company. The defendants are the railway company, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, certain subordinate lodges of that brotherhood and one of-the officers of a local lodge. The gravamen of the complaint is that the brotherhood has been selected as bargaining agent of the firemen of the defendant railway company; that it excludes Negro firemen from membership; that it has negotiated a trade…
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