The Item Company v. New Orleans Newspaper Guild

HUTCHESON, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal requiring appellant to submit to arbitration the discharge of an employee, Ewing Poteet. It presents under a single specification of error:

“The court below erred in granting judgment for the Guild, because it lacked jurisdiction to compel arbitration at the instance of the Guild, of an individual grievance of Mr. Poteet under a collective bargaining agreement which had expired before arbitration was demanded.”

two questions for review. 1

Appellant recognizes that in three recent decisions, 2 the Supreme Court of the United States has held that Sec. 301…