New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad Company v. Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen

EDWARDS, Circuit Judge.

This appeal represents another round in the long-continued dispute between the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen 1 and the railroads of the United States concerning the employment of firemen on diesel engines.

Basically, of course, the dispute was resolved by federal legislation in Public Law 88-108, 77 Stat. 132 (1963), 45 U.S. C. § 157 note (1964), which established an Arbitration Board to make a final and binding resolution of the long-standing issues involved. The congressional intent to employ compulsory arbitration, and, by law, to require acceptance of the award…