Boston Mutual Life Insurance Company v. Insurance Agents' International Union (Afl-Cio)

MAGRUDER, Chief Judge.

This is another appeal involving § 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947, 61 Stat. 156, 29 U.S.C.A. § 185, as applied to provisions of a collective bargaining agreement relating to arbitration.

The subject matter bristles with difficulties, some of which we indicated in our opinion in Local No. 149, etc. v. General Electric Co., 1957, 250 F.2d 922. An application for a writ of certiorari was denied in that ease. 1958, 356 U.S. 938, 78 S.Ct. 780, 2 L.Ed.2d 813. Consequently, our decision there has become the law of the First Circuit. We referred to the view…