General Telephone Company of California v. Communications Workers of America

Appellant appeals from an order of the District Court directing it to arbitrate a dispute under a collective bargaining agreement between the parties.

The agreement applied only to wage earning employees. The phrase “wage earning employees” is defined to mean those persons on the payroll of the company whose remuneration is expressed in the form of hourly wages.

The dispute involves the discharge of a supervisor of appellant who, until September 1, 1964, was a wage earning employee. On that date, he was promoted to management with the rank of supervisor. He was discharged on February 4, 1965.…