Ríos v. Puerto Rico Cement Corp.

Me. Chibe Justice Teavieso

delivered the opinion of the court.

The petitioner, Alfredo Luis Rios, worked for more than four years as an employee of the Puerto Rico Cement Corporation Plant and during all that time ivas a member of the “Union of Quarrymen, Operators, and other Employees of the Cement Industry,” organized on April 20, 1941. On November 21, 1945, the petitioner was expelled from the union, on the ground that while being secretary of the same, he objected to the delivery of the sum of $500, made by the president, without the previous authorization from the members of the…