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...Philadelphia, a special federal court last week decided who will be permitted to buy Pullman's sleeping-car company. Its choice: a combine of 52 railroads which already use 96% of Pullman's 7,000 cars. The price...
...court agreed with Pullman that the roads should be picked from the four bidders* because they "are the natural and obvious people to be in the sleeping-car business." To ward off danger of a new monopoly replacing the old, the court ruled that: 1) there must be no interlocking directorates among the roads and Pullman; 2) the Pullman service-and the individual roads-must buy new sleeping cars by competitive bidding...
...C.I.O. local in the company's Calumet shipyards (patrol craft and Navy LCMs) promptly charged: "Everybody knows . . . Pullman's profits actually were over the $50 million mark. You are falsifying to the public and ... the workers in the name of patriotism...
...When Pullman sued for libel, the District Court dismissed the case. It held that neither unions nor their officials could be sued, because they are voluntary organizations. The Appellate Court reversed this ruling, decided that unions cannot be sued but that union officials...
Since the suit was filed, the shipyard has shut down, the local has closed down, most of the defendants have disappeared. But Pullman intends to press its suit...