International Association of Machinists vs. S. B. Street Records
Collection Number: 5351
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library
Title:
International Association of
Machinists vs. S. B. Street Records, 1960
Collection Number:
5351
Creator:
International Association of
Machinists (IAM);
Street, S. B.
Street, S. B.
Quantity:
0.5 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Records (documents).
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and
Archives, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Court documents related to the case brought by the
International Association of Machinists, et al. against S.B. Street el al., which
concerned the use of union shop dues for political purposes.
Language:
Collection material in English
This case is a review of a ruling of Georgia courts that union-shop contracts are
invalid since under them the dues of unwilling members may be used for political
purposes disagreeable to the members.
The Georgia decision involves union-shop contracts in the Southern Railway System. On
the plea of a half-dozen employees, who were included among those who had to join
unions in 1953 when the Southern System's union-shop contracts went into effect, the
Georgia Supreme Court found that the argeements violated the First and Fifth
Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, being particularly vulnerable
to the charge that dues collected from unwilling members are used to support
ideological and political doctrines and candidates which plaintiffs, intervening
plaintiffs and other class represented by them, are and will be opposed to and not
willing to support voluntarily.
This collection consists of court documents related to the case brought by the
International Association of Machinists, et al. against S.B. Street el al., which
concerned the use of union shop dues for political purposes. The case was argued
before the Supreme Court of the United States.
Names:
Cobb, Hazel E.
Davis, J. H.
Ferguson, Elizabeth
Fritschel, Edna
Looper, Nancy M.
Street, S. B.
International Association of Machinists.
Southern Railway System
Subjects:
Machinists -- Labor unions -- United States.
Form and Genre Terms:
Records (documents)
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Cite As:
International Association of Machinists vs. S. B. Street Records #5351. Kheel
Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University
Library.
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Container
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Date
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 | 1960 | |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 | 1960 | |
| Box 1 | Folder 3 | 1960 | |
| Box 1 | Folder 4 | 1960 | |
| Box 1 | Folder 5 | 1960 | |
| Box 1 | Folder 6 | 1960 | |