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Show RAIL UNION SUED IN BUS WALKOUT CLEVELAND, Nov. 27 (INS) The Greyhound corporation and the Greyhound lines affected by the current strike of drivers filed nine suits In federal district court here today asking a total of $6,300,000 damages from the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and its two top officers. The suits charge the brotherhood is attempting to wreck bus companies, com-panies, particularly Greyhound, In order to increase the patronage of railroads and the number of brotherhood broth-erhood members in their employ. The B R T as the brotherhood is customarily known, called the bus drivers' strike, now in its third dsy. The nine petitions, all substantially substan-tially the same, charge violation of the Sherman antitrust act and the Clayton act by virtue of "unlawful "un-lawful restriction of interstate commerce." com-merce." Three of the suits ask damages of $1,600,000 each, and the other six each ask $300,000. The court action was termed by members of the firm of Squire, Sanders San-ders Dempscy, Cleveland attorneys attor-neys for the Greyhound lines, as "the first suits over filed to test the responsibility of a labor union." Named as defendants. In addition to the brotherhood, are A. F. Whitney, Whit-ney, president of the B R T; 8. R. Harvey, assistant president and director di-rector of the current bus strike, and It members of the brotherhood's brother-hood's joint general grievance committee. |