Norman v. Missouri Pacific Railroad

FLOYD R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge.

This case represents another chapter in the long arduous litigation of the train porters against the railroads, and at times against railroad unions, in aii attempt to preserve the train porters’ position against adverse changes in the operation of passenger trains and preda*75tory raids by their alleged white counterparts, the railway brakemen. The plaintiffs in this case are Negro employees of the defendant Missouri Pacific Railroad serving in the capacity of train porters.1

Plaintiffs allege violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S. C. §…