Pennsylvania Greyhound Lines, Inc. v. Amalgamated Ass'n of Street, Electric Ry., & Motor Coach Employees of America, Division 1063

The complaint in this cause was filed after the 1947 reenactment and codification of the Arbitration Act. 9 U.S.C. § 1 et seq. Under the original Act of 1925, 43 Stat. 883, we held in Donahue v. Susquehanna Collieries Co., 3 Cir., 138 F.2d 3, 149 A.L.R. 271, and Watkins v. Hudson Coal Co., 3 Cir., 151 F.2d 311, that the language used in Section 1 “ * * * but nothing herein contained shall apply to contracts of employment of * * * any * * * class of workers engaged in * * * interstate commerce” was merely an exclusion in the definition of “commerce” in that Section, and did not constitute an…