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...negotiations impasse over featherbedding, enacted the first peacetime compulsory-arbitration law. The arbitration board subsequently approved the elimination from yard and freight crews of nine out of every ten firemen jobs. At least 18,000 jobs have since vanished. Reacting promptly to the walkout, Federal District Judge Alexander Holtzoff held that the union had failed to properly mediate its demands and ordered the strikers back to work. Instead of complying, Gilbert said that he would call off the pickets only if management promised to bring neither damage nor contempt suits. Holtzoff held the brotherhood in contempt of court...
...majority decision, written by Judge Alexander Holtzoff, 79, said that the 14th Amendment was beside the point, declared flatly that Section 4(e) "transgresses the powers granted to Congress and, therefore, is repugnant to the Constitution and invalid." The "appropriate recourse," said the court, would be an amendment to the constitution of the State of New York. Instead, the Justice Department planned to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, where a hearing on the full Voting Rights Act is scheduled on Jan. 17, as the result of another suit...
...twice-convicted thief named Richard Armstead took the stand before U.S. District Judge Alexander Holtzoff in Washington, D.C., to deny the latest robbery charge against him. Bring out his criminal record, snapped the judge. "Mr. Armstead," the prosecutor dutifully began. But Judge Holtzoff, who is 78 and has been on the bench 20 years, interrupted in a manner unexpected in the scrupulously courteous federal courts. "Don't address defendants as Mister," he said. "Witnesses and counsel should be addressed as Mr. or Mrs. or Miss, as the case may be, but not the defendant...
...evidence was so solid that Armstead's court-appointed lawyer later asked the U.S. Court of Appeals to dismiss the appeal that he had filed for his client. The court complied, but in the process it went out of its way to rap Judge Holtzoff for his "inexplicable" rudeness to Mr. Armstead...
Last year in the U.S. District Court in Washington, a jury finally found the Communist Party guilty of failing to register, and Judge Alexander Holtzoff imposed a $120,000 fine. When a newsman asked one of the Communist Party's lawyers, Joseph Forer, whether he regarded the trial as the "culmination" of the long battle, the answer was indignant: "Culmination? Are you out of your mind? This is the beginning of a new round." Right he was. In Washington last week, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals struck down the 1962 conviction...