No. 129, Docket 20356 | 2d Cir. | Jul 1, 1947
In the autumn and winter of 1943, the Congress of Industrial Organizations tried unsuccessfully to organize the employees in the respondents’ factory; but the Board has found, on evidence that we must accept, that its failure was due to active intervention and opposition by the respondents themselves. So matters rested until August 1944, when there is testimony, which again we must accept as sufficient, supporting the Board’s conclusion that the American Federation of Labor started in to organize the employees after a majority of the employees had already signed up with the Congress of Industrial Organizations. Indeed, it is significant that at the hearings the Federation never produced its membership cards, but kept insisting that the Board should produce photostats in its possession. Again it is at best doubtful when the Federation contract with the respondents was signed; there was evidence to justify the conclusion that it was not signed until August 24th (the typewritten date in the corner) ; and so the Board found. That was three days after the Congress’s organizer, Scida, had demanded bargaining rights for his union on the claim that it represented a majority of the employees. We seldom have a case where the evidence gives better support to the Board’s findings.
Nor can we see the least ground for saying that the examiner was unfair during the hearings; on the contrary he appears- to have let in all the testimony of any
The usual enforcement order will pass.
Rule 43(b), Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, 28 U.S.C.A. following section 723c.
National Labor Relations Board v. P. Lorillard Co., 314 U.S. 512, 62 S.Ct. 397, 86 L.Ed. 380.