Wisconsin Employment Relations Board v. Milwaukee Gas Light Co.

Prior to October 5, 1949, the membership of the union had authorized the negotiating committee to call a strike and on October 4, 1949, the negotiating committee, consisting of defendants, Arthur St. John, Thomas Lansing, and Alvin C. Fuhrman, ordered the strike to commence at 6 a.m., October 5, 1949.

At 11 a.m. the public was advised to curtail consumption of gas and an appeal to consumers of gas was made to shut off the service; the steam pressure dropped to zero in the boiler room and no further pumping could be done with the main pumping facilities; the fires had to be pulled from the…