Carroll v. Associated Musicians of Greater New York
Decision Date | 17 November 1960 |
Docket Number | Docket 26278.,No. 34,34 |
Citation | 284 F.2d 91 |
Parties | Joseph CARROLL, Charles Peterson and Charles Turecamo, as Treasurer, Orchestra Leaders of Greater New York, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. ASSOCIATED MUSICIANS OF GREATER NEW YORK and Al Manuti, as President, Max L. Arons, as Secretary and Hi Jaffee, as Treasurer of Local 802, Associated Musicians of Greater New York, Defendants-Appellants. |
Court | U.S. Court of Appeals — Second Circuit |
Schmidt & McDonald, New York City (Godfrey P. Schmidt, New York City, on the brief), for plaintiffs-appellees.
Ashe & Rifkin, New York City (George Rifkin, New York City, on the brief), for defendants-appellants.
Before LUMBARD, Chief Judge, and TUTTLE* and FRIENDLY, Circuit Judges.
Associated Musicians of Greater New York and its officers appeal from the grant of a temporary injunction forbidding them to put into effect a "single engagement welfare plan" which concededly involved payments which would be violative of Section 302(a) of the Labor Management Relations Act as Amended, 29 U.S.C.A. § 186, assuming the correctness of the facts found by the trial court. The provisions of the Labor Management Relations Act here invoked are:
The plaintiffs are members of the defendant Union, Local 802, which has some 30,000 members. They are also members of a smaller Union, Orchestra Leaders of Greater New York, all of whose members are also in Local 802, but who have the further identifying characteristic of being band or orchestra leaders in addition to, or rather than, plain musicians or sidemen. The executive Board of Local 802 put into effect a plan to provide welfare benefits for its members engaged in the single engagement field. This activity involves the selection by a leader of...
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