General Committee of Adjustment of Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers for Pacific Lines of Southern Pac. Co. v. Southern Pac. Co.

Appellant, hereinafter called Engineers’ Committee, brought suit for a judgment declaring invalid certain provisions in a contract, hereinafter called the Firemen’s Schedule, between the defendant below, hereinafter called the Railway, one of the appellees, and the intervenor below, also one of the appellees, hereinafter called the Firemen’s Committee. The district court’s judgment gave an interpretation of the contract and a declaration of the rights of the contracting parties and their effect upon the intervenor which both the parties to the contract, the Firemen’s Committee and the Railway, agree is correct. The Engineers’ Committee appeals.

The two Committees are the majority representatives of the Railway’s firemen and engineers as members of their respective crafts or classes under Section 2, Fourth and Seventh, of the Railway Labor Act of May 20, 1926, as amended June 21, 1934, hereinafter called the Act. Each Committee, as majority representative, had made for its craft or class an agreement with the Railway concerning rates of pay, rules, and working conditions, hereinafter called the Engineers’ Schedule and the Firemen’s Schedule.

A. One of the grounds of appeal…