TWENTY-SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT - National Labor Relations Board

Jurisdiction of the Board 27
majolity 28 held that a commumty antenna television system, mewing
television signals from out-of-State stations and transmitting them
to local subscribers, was "an extension of the consumer's own television
antenna" and not a communication system, nor an essential
part thereof, within the meaning of that standaid
d Office Buildings
The Boaid's standard fot office buildings iequites a gloss annual
ievenue of at least $100,000, of which $25,000 or more is denved
from mga,nizations whose operations meet any of the Boaid's
standards, exclusive of the indirect outflow and the indirect inflow
btandards 29 In Canal Marais Improvement Corporation," the
Board asseited jurisdiction over an office building operation on the
basis of an annual rental, exceeding $100,000, from the Commodity
Stabilization Service of U S Department of Agriculture, a govei n-
mental agency not an "employer" within the meaning of the act
It noted that this governmental agency is "an organization" within
the office building standaid and exerts "a substantial impact on the
national defense and on the national health, safety, and welfare "31
e Entertainment and Amusement Enterprises
In the entertainment and amusement fields, the Boaid issued several
advisory opinions 32 stating that it would assert jutisdiction over
a membership corporation of theater owneis and pi oduceis m the
Broadway legitimate theater, acting as bargaining agent for employermembeis,
23 on the basis of their combined opeiations " which met
the ietail and nonretail standaids,39 but that it would not asseit
jurisdiction over the operations of racehorse owners 36 and public
trameis of racehorses" as "they are essentially local in character"
A panel majority 38 also asserted jurisdiction over an employer which
3a Member Jenkins dissenting
22 Mistletoe Operating Co , 122 NLRB 1534, 1536 (1959)
129 NLRB 1332
81 The national defense standard is set forth in Ready Mixed Concrete d Materials, Inc.,
122 NLRB 318 (1958)
12 13 ee Twenty-fifth Annual Report (1960), pp 18-19, for backgtound of advisory opinion
procedure
"The League of New York Theatres, Inc , 129 NLRB 1429
See Weataide Market Owners Assn, 126 NLRB 167 (1960) , Belleville Employing
Printers, 122 NLRB 350 (1958)
"Its previous declination of some enterprises in the amusement field was held not controlling
It noted that pfrisdiction has been asserted over various entertainment enterprises
closely related to theatrical productions, such as motion picture theaters and
producers, Combined Century Theatres, Inc • 120 NLRB 1379 (1958), and Edward Small
Productions, lac, 127 NLRB 283 (1960) , and recently also over bowling alleys Dale
Mabry Lanes, Ltd, Case No 12—RC-1010, i gsued October 14, 1960, not published in NLRB
volumes See also Ray, Davidson di Ray, 131 NLRB No 54
"Meadow Stud, Inc., 130 NLRB 1202
11 Williams IT Dixon, 130 NLRB 1204
'4 Member Leedom dissenting