Legal Opinion
Tunstall v. Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided February 12, 1945No. 37PublishedCited by 400 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Stone
This is a companion case to Steele v. Louisville & Nashville R. Co., ante, p. 192, in which we answered in the affirmative a question also presented in this case. The question is whether the Railway Labor Act, 48 Stat. 1185, 45 U. S. C. §§ 151 et seq., imposes on a labor organization, acting as the exclusive bargaining representative of a craft or class of railway employees, the duty to represent all the employees in the craft without discrimination because of their race. The further question in this case is whether the federal courts have jurisdiction to entertain a non-diversity suit in…
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