Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen v. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Company (Lines East)

Public Law 88-108 1 provides that the compulsory arbitration required in this case “shall be conducted pursuant to sections 7 and 8 of the Railway Labor Act.” Pub.L. 88-108, § 4. As I have indicated in my dissents in Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen v. St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co., 127 U.S.App.D.C. -, 380 F.2d 603 (1967), and Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen v. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific RR Co., 127 U.S. App.D.C. -, 380 F.2d 605 (1967), the Compulsory Arbitration Board convened pursuant to Public Law 88-108 cannot avoid this statutory requirement by delegating portions of…