Dingwall

Appeal from a judgment granting plaintiff’s application for a writ of mandate, commanding the appellants to restore him to membership.

The Amalgamated Association _of Street Railway Employees of America is a voluntary unincorporated association of men employed by various street railway companies in the United States, associated together “to organize Division Associations, and place the occupation of street railway employees upon a high plane of efficiency, intelligence and skill; to encourage the formation in Division Associations of sick benefit funds; to establish schools for imparting a practical knowledge of modern and improved methods and systems of transportation and trade matters generally; to encourage settlement of disputes between employees and employers by arbitration; to secure employment and adequate pay for work; to reduce the hours of daily labor, and by all legal and proper means to elevate the moral, intellectual and social condition of its members.”

The appellant herein, Division No. 205 of said Amalgamated Association, is a subordinate or local division thereof, composed of about two thousand seven hundred men employed by the various street railway companies…