Chrysler Corp. v. Smith

The Chrysler Corporation manufactures automobiles and to that end maintains and operates, in the Detroit area, nine essential, coordinated plants, known as the Dodge main plant, Dodge truck plant, Dodge forge plant, DeSoto, Dodge Amplex, Highland Park, Chrysler-Jefferson, Chrysler-Kercheval, and Plymouth. A labor dispute, actively in progress in the main plant, stopped work and occasioned unemployment of employees of the Chrysler Corporation in all of the plants. About 50,000 of the employees so affected made claims for unemployment compensation under Act No. 1, Pub. Acts 1936 (Ex. Sess.), as…