United Mine Workers of America v. Benedict Coal Corporation

• Decision Date: 24 February 1959
• Docket Number: No. 563,563
• Citation: United Mine Workers of America v. Benedict Coal Corporation, 359 U.S. 905, 79 S.Ct. 581, 3 L.Ed.2d 570 (1959)
• Parties: UNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA et al., petitioners, v. BENEDICT COAL CORPORATION
• Court: U.S. Supreme Court

359 U.S. 905

79 S.Ct. 581

3 L.Ed.2d 570

UNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA et al., petitioners,

v BENEDICT COAL CORPORATION.

No. 563.

Supreme Court of the United States

February 24, 1959

Messrs. Welly K. Hopkins, Harrison Combs, Willard P. Owens and M. E. Boiarsky, for petitioners.

Mr. Fred B. Greear, for respondent.

Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit granted limited to question 1 presented by the petition for the writ which reads as follows:

'1. Where (1) the settlement of disputes section of collective bargaining agreements antedating 1950 provided that Mine Workers shall not engage in a work stoppage pending settlement of disputes under grievance machinery procedures and such agreements contained other 'no strike' clauses, and (2) under the Labor Management Relations Act, 1947,⁴ the right to strike became a bargainable subject, and (3) in 1950 UMW and coal operators signatories to the National Bituminous Coal Wage Agreement of 1950, deleted such clauses therefrom and expressly...