Parker v. T. Smith & Son, Inc.

McBRIDE, Judge.

This is a suit by 891 colored nonunion longshoremen (colloquially referred to as “rabbits”) against their ex-employer, T. Smith & Son, Inc., ■ and the International Longshoremen’s Association, Local 1419 (hereinafter - referred 'to as the “Union”), for recovery of sums deducted from their weekly pay as assessments and paid by T. Smith & Son, Inc., into the treasury of the Union. The original suit was filed by 619 plaintiffs; subsequently 272 additional longshoremen joined the suit by way of intervention. Each group claims recovery of the deductions made during a .five-year…