Aeronautical Industrial District Lodge 727 v. Campbell et al. (337 U.S. 521)
U.S. Supreme Court · decided June 20, 1949 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Citation
- 337 U.S. 521 · 69 S. Ct. 1287
- Docket
- No. 333
- Argued
- January 31, 1949
- Decided
- June 20, 1949
- Term
- October Term 1948
- Vote
- 9–0
- Majority author
- Justice Frankfurter
- Issue area
- Civil Rights
- Disposition
- Reversed
- Outcome
- Petitioning party won
- Ideological direction
- Conservative
How the Justices voted
- Majority
- Chief Justice Vinson, Justice Burton, Justice R. H. Jackson, Justice Frankfurter (wrote), Justice Reed, Justice Black, Justice Rutledge, Justice Murphy
- Concurring in the judgment
- Justice Douglas
Opinion excerpt
Mr. Justice Frankfurter delivered the opinion of the Court. We brought this case here, 335 U. S. 869, to resolve a conflict of views between two Courts of Appeals in their interpretation of the rights given to . veterans of World War II by § 8 of the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, as amended, 54 Stat. 885, 890, 58 Stat. 798, 50 U. S. C. App. § 308. Three veterans brought this suit for compensation for the period of a layoff while employed at Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, a respondent here. The facts controlling the legal claims of all three may be represented by the circumstances attending Kirk’s employment and layoff. The petitioner, Aeronautical Industrial District Lodge No. 727, was the duly recognized collective bargaining agent of the employees at Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. In September, .1941, the Union had negotiated an agreement with Lockheed covering the range of subjects touching conditions of employment typical of such agreements in the aircraft industry. This agreement was in effect when Kirk was employed in August, 1942, by Yega Aircraft Corporation, which afterwards was merged with Lockheed. He joined the Union and has remained a member throughout this controversy. He left Lockheed two years later to enter the Army, from which he was honorably discharged in January, 1946, and was restored to his job at Lockheed in accordance with § 8 (a) of the…
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