Wisconsin Employment Relations Board v. Evangelical Deaconess Society of Wisconsin

The question to be decided in this case is whether appellant is subject to the provisions of the “Employment Peace Act,” ch. 111, Stats. It is conceded not to be within the named exceptions in the statute and that the words of the statute are broad enough to cover it. It is urged that an exception of charitable institutions is to be read into the statute because of claimed legislative intent.

Under certain circumstances “a thing may be within the letter of the statute and yet not within the statute, because not within its spirit, nor within the intention of its makers.” Church of the Holy…