Mason v. Texas Co.

MAGRUDER, Chief Judge.

Appellants Ira S. Mason and Willard M. Carroll, licensed deck, officers, were members of an independent union, the Texas Tanker Officers Association (hereinafter called the association), and were employed on American flag ocean-going vessels of The Texas 'Company (hereinafter called the company), the appellee herein. On August 1, 1941, the association, appellants’ certified collective bargaining representative, and the company concluded a collective bargaining agreement, and on March 30, 1942, appellants signed the shipping articles of the S. S. Connecticut at Port…