MATTER OF REIF (WILLIAMS SPORTSWEAR)


9 N.Y.2d 387 (1961)

In the Matter of the Arbitration between Samuel Reif, as President of Local 169, Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Appellant, and Williams Sportswear, Inc., Respondent.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided March 30, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clifford D. Reznicek and Jacob Sheinkman for appellant.

Max Schoengold and Irwin M. Katz for respondent.

Chief Judge DESMOND and Judges FULD, FROESSEL, VAN VOORHIS, BURKE and FOSTER concur.


DYE, J.

The sole question is whether respondent corporation should be bound, as was its predecessor, by the arbitration clause contained in a collective bargaining agreement.

On this motion for a stay of arbitration, both the supporting and the opposing affidavits are in basic agreement on all the facts we consider relevant. From about 1946 on, the petitioner-appellant, Local 169 of the Amalgamated Clothing...

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