Goodwins, Inc. v. Hagedorn

I dissent and vote for affirmance. The complaint was properly dismissed for lack of jurisdiction of the subject matter. When the employer alleged that it was engaged in interstate commerce the controversy was forthwith brought within the exclusive province of the National Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act), (U. S. Code, tit. 29, ch. 7, § 141 et seq.). The jurisdictional effect of this admission is not diminished by the circumstance that none of its employees are members of the defendant union and none are on strike or that the union has not been recognized as their…