Claspill Ex Rel. International Ass'n of Fire Fighters, Local No. 152 v. Craig

HOGAN, Judge.

• This appeal is the upshot of a long-standing controversy between plaintiff Claspill, representing the rank and file, and defendants, as supervisory employees, concerning the propriety of defendants’ membership in local No. 152, International Association of Fire Fighters, AFL-CIO (local 152). All the parties are, or have been employees of the Springfield City Fire Department, and it is inferable that at one time or another, most of the defendants have been members of local 152.

The dispute which was litigated grew out of the local’s decision, in 1969, to institute a “slowdown”…