Cook v. Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

EAGER, Judge.

This is a suit in equity filed by fourteen employees of the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company who are designated for collective bargaining purposes as “Train Porters”; défendants are the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, T. D. McNeal) a Vice-President thereof, the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, and Guy A. Thompson, its Trustee (who needs no- longer be considered). Plaintiffs have been so employed for relatively long periods, and as such they have acquired considerable seniority. They allege that, although they are classed as “Train Porters,” the majority of their duties…