MacHine Products Co. v. Prairie Local Lodge No. 1538

This case presents the question of whether a provision in a collective bargaining contract between a labor union and an employer to submit future disputes to arbitration can be enforced by ordering its specific performance.'

Appellee, Prairie Local Lodge No. 1538 of the International Association of Machinists, A. F. L. - C. I. O., and some individual members of the union filed this suit in the Chancery Court of Monroe County against appellant, Machine Products Company, Inc., and three of its officers for the purpose of obtaining specific performance of an arbitration clause for future disputes…