WALKER MFG. CO. v. INDUSTRIAL COMM.


27 Wis.2d 669 (1965)

WALKER MANUFACTURING COMPANY, Respondent, v. INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION, Appellant: HOLSINGER and others, Intervenors.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

June 3, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the appellant Industrial Commission the cause was argued by E. Weston Wood and John E. Armstrong, assistant attorneys general, with whom on the briefs was Bronson C. La Follette, attorney general.

For the respondent there was a brief by Seyfarth, Shaw, Fairweather & Geraldson and Lee C. Shaw, Ray J. Schoonhoven, and Rody P. Biggert, all of Chicago, Illinois, and by LaFrance Thompson, Greenquist, Evans & Dye and Alfred E. LaFrance and Adrian P. Schoone, all of Racine, and oral argument by Lee C. Shaw.


CURRIE, C. J.

This appeal presents these two issues:

(1) Whether the commission lacked jurisdiction to act upon the instant complaint made to it against Walker by virtue of federal pre-emption over the field of collective bargaining which affects interstate commerce.

(2) Does the record sustain the commission's determination that Walker violated the age-discrimination prohibition of the Wisconsin Fair Employment Act (secs. 111.31-111.37, Stats.)?<...

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