No. 3729. Decided June 1, 1948. A petition for declaratory judgment may properly be maintained to ascertain whether a federal act or a state act, dealing with the same subject matter, determines the validity of a contract agreement between members of a local labor union, threatened with prosecution by the State, in advance of actual controversy between the parties. The Labor Management Act of 1947 (P. L. 101 80th Congress, 1st ses. c. 120) supersedes the regulatory provisions of Laws 1947, c. 195

November 16, 1943. Appeal from Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board. Kurz Kurz, attorneys ( Meyer Kurz and Avrom M. Jacobs of counsel), for appellant. Nathaniel L. Goldstein, Attorney-General ( Francis R. Curran and W. Gerard Ryan, Assistant Attorneys-General, of counsel), for Acting Industrial Commissioner, respondent. CRAPSER, J. This is an appeal by the employer appellant from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, made on the 7th day of June, 1943, which determines that Management