Barnes & Tucker Co. v. UNITED MINE WKRS. OF AMER.

OPINION

DUMBAULD, District Judge.

It is common knowledge that the collective bargaining agreements governing the coal industry are negotiated on the national level. In olden times the negotiations were, on behalf of the miners, in the hands of John L. Lewis, one of the giant figures of the day, who when he saw fit would defy the President and the federal courts. 1 Later negotiators, succeeding to the mantle of the legendary patriarch, may have pictured themselves in the situation of Macbeth, of whom it was said:

Now does he feel his title

Hang loose about him, like a giant’s robe

Upon a dwarfish…