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Kemp v. Division No. 241, Amalgamated Association of Street & Electric Railway Employees of America

255 Ill. 213, 99 N.E. 389 (1912)

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Kemp v. Division No. 241, Amalgamated Association of Street & Electric Railway Employees of America

Illinois Supreme Court
255 Ill. 213, 99 N.E. 389 (1912)

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Facts

Harry Kemp (plaintiff) was an employee of the Chicago Railways Company and a member of Division No. 241 of the Amalgamated Association of Street & Electric Railway Employees of America (the union) (defendant), a union of Chicago Railways Company employees. Kemp was part of a group of union members who objected to the union using dues for political purposes. Kemp and the other objecting members (the dissidents) resigned from the union. The union demanded that the dissidents be fired and threatened to strike, and the other union members voted to refuse to work with the dissidents. The dissidents filed suit seeking an injunction against the union that would prevent the union from seeking their discharge. The trial court dismissed the injunction, finding in the union’s favor. The intermediate appellate court reversed, and the union appealed.

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Issue

Holding and Reasoning (Cooke, J.)

Concurrence (Carter, J.)

Dissent (Dunn, C.J., Cartwright, Hand, J.J.)

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