International Association of Machinists vs. S. B. Street Records
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Scope and Contents
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.
Dates
- 1960
Creator
- Street, S. B. (creator, Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
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Conditions Governing Use
This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and Procedures for Document Use.
Biographical / Historical
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.
Extent
0.5 cubic feet
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.
Quantity:
0.5 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Records (documents).
General
- Contact Information:
- Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives 227 Ives Hall Tower Road Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3183 kheelref@cornell.edu https://catherwood.library.cornell.edu/kheel/
- Compiled by:
- Kheel Staff, November 18, 2013
- EAD encoding:
- Kheel Staff, March 11, 2019
- Title
- International Association of Machinists vs. S. B. Street Records
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Kheel Staff
- Date
- March 11, 2019
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Revision Statements
- 02/23/2024: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)
Repository Details
Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository