Local No. 2, International Brotherhood of Telephone Workers v. International Brotherhood of Telephone Workers

OPINION

McENTEE, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff-appellant, Local No. 2, is a labor union composed of some 1,075 male employees of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company. It is a chartered affiliate of the respondent-appellee, International Brotherhood of Telephone Workers. International has twenty-four other local affiliates located in various sections of New England and a total enrollment of about 10,700 employees of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company.

International meets in convention every two years. In the interim between conventions its affairs are administered by a fifteen…