Halstead & Mitchell Company and Halstead Metal Products, Inc. v. United Steelworkers of America and Local No. 7032 of United Steelworkers of America

OPINION OF THE COURT

GANEY, Circuit Judge.

This cause of action was begun in the Court of Common Pleas of Butler County, Pennsylvania, by the appellees herein against the appellants in the nature of a petition for declaratory judgment. The appellants thereafter removed the cause of action to the Federal District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. The petition for declaratory judg*1192ment sought a court ruling on whether or not a dispute between the Company and the Union was arbitrable. The appellants filed an answer and, after a pretrial conference, a stipulation was entered into…