Brampton Woolen Co. v. Local Union 112

The court has jurisdiction to determine whether the dispute is arbitrable. Matter of Belding Hemingway Company, 295 N. Y. 541; International Association of Machinists & a. v. Cutler-Hammer, Inc., 74 N. E. (2d.) 464. See also, Burleigh v. Ford, 59 N. H. 536, 539. Furthermore the plaintiff’s legal remedy is clearly inadequate and the demurrer was properly overruled. It was faced with a choice of refusing to arbitrate and thereby perhaps breaking the contract which would have freed the defendants from their no-strike obligation, or by participating in arbitration it might have been held to have…