International Association of Machinists vs. S. B. Street Records, 1960
Collection Number: 5351
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
International Association of Machinists vs. S. B. Street Records, 1960
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
5351
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.
Creator:
International Association of Machinists (IAM)
Street, S. B.
Quanitities:
0.5 cubic feet
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.
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INFORMATION FOR USERS
International Association of Machinists vs. S. B. Street Records #5351. Kheel Center
for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
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.
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Motion of Railway Labor Executives' Association for leave to file a brief on the merits
as amicus curiae, and annexed brief
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1960 |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Brief upon argument, for appellees, S.B. Street, Nancy M. Looper, Hazel E. Cobb, J.H.
Davis, Mrs. Edna Fritschel, Mrs. Elizabeth Ferguson, and others similarly situated
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1960 |
| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Brief for the United States
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1960 |
| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Motion for leave to file a brief as amicus curiae and brief for the American Federation
of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations as amicus curiae
|
1960 |
| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Brief for the appellants
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1960 |
| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Brief for appellees, S.B. Street, Nancy M. Looper, Hazel E. Cobb, J.H. Davis, Mrs.
Edna Fritschel, Mrs. Elizabeth Ferguson, and others similarly situated
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1960 |