Howland v. Local Union 306

Plaintiff, Clarence W. A. How-land, at one time employed by The Budd Company of Detroit as a- tool crib attendant, earning $1.44 per hour, filed a bill of complaint seeking relief against defendants Local Union 306, UAW-CIO, Richard L. Schmidt, Lloyd Coffman, and John Lavey, individually and as officers of the defendant local union. He charged that defendants caused him to be discharged from his employment on December 22, 1947, and made it impossible for him to obtain employment of a similar nature. He alleged that, by reason of defendants’ wrongful acts, he suffered the loss of his earnings…