United Automobile, Aircraft & Agricultural Implement Workers, Local 283 v. Scofield

Defendant argues that this court should refuse to enforce the lower court judgment because to do so would violate certain rights conferred upon Scofield by the Wisconsin Employment Peace Act (ch. Ill, Stats.). His argument thus rests upon the correctness of his assertion that state labor law is applicable. Since both the state and the United States have passed labor relations laws, the possibility of conflict arises. Under the supremacy clause of the United States Constitution, the state labor law is obliged to give way to a contrary federal policy. Yet, it is clear that states have been by…