Burgess v. Georgia, Florida & Alabama Railway Co.

Tlie plaintiff, a railway company, is engaged in both intrastate and interstate commerce, and is under contract with the United States government to carry the mails. Its employees are members of labor unions under written contracts executed on behalf of the employees by the local officials of the unions. The original contracts between the plaintiff and its employees dealt with and fixed the rates of pay and working conditions of the employees. The contracts specified no definite term of service, but provided that they should remain in effect “until revised or abrogated, of which intention 30…