Bouse v. Burns

This is a suit to recover the assets of a local union of pulp and paper mill workers at Oregon City, which in 1964 seceded from the International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite and Paperworkers, AFL-CIO, (to be referred to as the “International”) along with a number of other local unions in Oregon and Washington, which then became local unions of a new Association of Western Pulp and Paperworkers (to be referred to as the “Association”).

The original complaint was filed in 1964 in Clackamas county at about the same time that a complaint was filed in Multnomah county by representatives of the…