LABOR LAW - EXISTENCE OF LABOR DISPUTE UNDER NORRIS-LA GUARDIA ACT - RELATION OF NORRIS-LA GUARDIA ACT TO SHERMAN ACT

Authors

Philip W. Buchen, University of Michigan Law SchoolFollow

Abstract

Action was brought in a federal court to enjoin the Chicago local of the A. F. of L. Mille Wagon Drivers' Union from picketing and committing acts of violence in violation of the Sherman Act against retail stores that sold milk produced out of the state, processed by the plaintiff dairies and distributed by "vendors" belonging to the plaintiff C. I. O. union of dairy workers. "Vendors" were individuals owning their own trucks who purchased milk from the dairies and sold it to the retail stores, which charged prices lower than those charged for milk supplied by dairies employing the A. F. of L. drivers. Defendant's objects were to compel the dairies to abandon the "vendor system," which threatened the wage level of its members and to secure the membership of the "vendors" on condition that they cease distributing milk in that capacity. Held, there existed a labor dispute under the Norris-LaGuardia Act, and therefore the procedural requirements of that act have to be satisfied before any injunction can issue to restrain conduct which violates the Sherman Act. Milk Wagon Drivers' Union v. Lake Valley Farm Products, (U.S. 1940) 61 S. Ct. 122.

Recommended Citation

Philip W. Buchen, LABOR LAW - EXISTENCE OF LABOR DISPUTE UNDER NORRIS-LA GUARDIA ACT - RELATION OF NORRIS-LA GUARDIA ACT TO SHERMAN ACT, 39 Mich. L. Rev. 663 (1941).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol39/iss4/20