Earl Warren

“ Later, before the Senate Committee, he declared:
'Grievances are instituted against railroad officers' actions, and we are willing to take our chances with this national board because we believe, out of our experience, that the national board is the best and most efficient method of getting a determination of these many controversies that arise on these railroads between the officers and the employees.
'These railway labor organizations have always opposed compulsory determination of their controversies. ”

“ The grievances for which redress is sought by the Brotherhood are admittedly 'minor disputes' as that phrase is known in the parlance of the Railway Labor Act. These are controversies over the meaning of an existing collective bargaining agreement in a particular fact situation, generally involving only one employee. ”

“ Because of the threatened irreparable injury to the carrier, its employees and the 600 industries and 27 railroads served by it, the complaint prayed for a preliminary injunction, and ultimately a permanent injunction, against a strike by the Brotherhood over the grievances pending before the Adjustment Board. ”

“ This has made it necessary for the President of the United States to intervene and establish an emergency board to investigate the controversies. This condition should be corrected in the interest of industrial peace and of uninterrupted transportation service.' Ibid. ”

“ Dwellingham, 8 Cir., 198 F.2d 591.↑ The Norris-LaGuardia Act has been held to prevent the issuance of an injunction in a railway labor case involving a 'major dispute.' Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen v. Toledo, P. & W.R. Co., 321 U.S. 50, 64 S.Ct. 413, 88 L.Ed. 534. In such a case, of course, the Railway Labor Act does not provide a process for a final decision like that of the Adjustment Board in a 'minor dispute' case.↑ Milk Wagon Drivers' Union, etc. v. ”

“ Its processes must be invoked by one or both of the parties. In this case, the River Road filed the grievances with the Board before seeking an injunction. Cf. the exhaustion of remedies provisions in § 8 of the Norris-LaGuardia Act. 29 U.S.C. § 108, 29 U.S.C.A. § 108.↑ Graham v. Brotherhood of L.F. & E., 338 U.S. 232, 70 S.Ct. 14, 94 L.Ed. 22; Tunstall v. Brotherhood of L.F. & E., 323 U.S. 210, 65 S.Ct. 235, 89 L.Ed. 187; Steele v. ”