Deacon v. International Union of Operating Engineers

Petitioner Deacon, who is a member of the respondent union, sought a writ of mandate in the superior court to permit him to inspect the hooks and records of the union to verify certain expenditures which the union, in its 1961 annual report to the United States Department of Labor, claimed it had made to its officers. The judgment was that a writ of mandate issue requiring respondents to permit Deacon to inspect the union’s 1961 records to verify the reported expenditures to 35 officers, 10 business representatives, and 1 executive secretary of the union. The union and three of its officers…