Farulla v. Freundlich, Inc.

The plaintiff labor union, which is the only union in the doll and toy industry in the city of New York, had an industrial dispute with the employers in their industry. A strike was imminent. The contending parties were called together by the New York Regional Labor Board, an agency created under the National Industrial Recovery Administration.

On March 1, 1934, the labor union and about seventy-five per cent of the manufacturers in the industry, including this defendant, signed an instrument to submit certain of the matters in dispute “ to arbitration.” The instrument states: “ It is further…