Law School Noob: [CASE DIGEST] Antamok Goldfields Mining Company v. Court of Industrial Relations and National Labor Union, Inc.

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[CASE DIGEST] Antamok Goldfields Mining Company v. Court of Industrial Relations and National Labor Union, Inc.

June 28, 1940 | G.R. No. 46892

Antamok Goldfields Mining Company, petitioner
Court of Industrial Relations and National Labor Union, Inc., respondents

FACTS:

Workers of Antamok Goldfield Mining Company went on strike after their demands for higher wage and better working conditions, which were coursed through the National Labor Union. were not granted in full. Because of their participation in a stoning incident during the strike, 45 workers were dismissed.

The dispute was referred to the Court of Industrial Relations, which then ordered the reinstatement of the 45 workers. The CIR ruled that the discharges and indefinite suspensions were made by Antamok without first securing the consent of the CIR in violation of a previous order enjoining them from discharging any laborer involved in the dispute without just cause and without previous authority of the Court.

Antamok Goldfields Mining Company questioned the constitutionality of Commonwealth Act No. 103, which created the CIR, on the ground that said law deprives them of liberty and property without due process of law.

ISSUE:

Whether Commonwealth Act No 103 is constitutional. - YES.

HELD:

In conformity with the constitutional objective and cognizant of the historical fact that industrial and agricultural disputes had given rise to disquietude, bloodshed and revolution in our country, the National Assembly enacted Commonwealth Act No. 103, entitled “An Act to afford protection of labor by creating a Court of Industrial Relations empowered to fix minimum wages for laborers and maximum rental to be paid by tenants, and to enforce compulsory arbitration between employers or landlords, and employees or tenants, respectively; and by prescribing penalties for the violation of the orders” and, later, Commonwealth Act No. 213, entitled, “An Act to define and regulate legitimate labor organizations.”

Commonwealth Act Nos. 103 and 213 were enacted in pursuance of what appears to be the deliberate embodiment of a new social policy, founded on the conception of a society integrated not by independent individuals at dealing at arms’ length, but by interdependent members of a consolidated whole whose interests must be protected against mutual aggression and warfare among and between divers and diverse units which are impelled by countervailing and opposite individual and group interests, and this is particularly true in the relationship between labor and capital.

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