NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD

120 THIRD ANNUAL REPORT OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
• The Board in its conclusions described the pervasive character
and extent of the respondent's conduct in interfering with the selforaanization
of its employees as follows :
From the facts as presented above it is clear that the association was brought
into being originally at the instigation of, and under the guidance of, the
respondent. Since its resurrection, the respondent has continually interfered
with the administration of the association and contributed encouragement and
support to it. Meetings of the association have been and are being held on the
respondent's property during working hours. Solicitation for membership in
the association has been permitted during working hours, and the privilege of
similar solicitation has been in effect denied to members of Local No. 502.
In at least two instances, the respondent has aided the association financially.
The respondent has, in various ways as above indicated, through the press and
through the distribution of circulars, contributed support to the association by
openly declaring its antagonism and opposition to Local No. 502. Through its
encouragement and aid to the association the respondent clearly intended to
interfere with the self-organization of its employees in Local No. 502 or any
other bona fide labor organization. The respondent has aided in the intimidation
and coercion of its employees to join the association. It encouraged membership
in the association by assuring its members that none of them would
lose by removal of part of its plant to Johnsonburg. It climaxed its support
to the association by recognizing it as the exclusive representative of its
employees and by signing an agreement with it pursuant to such recognition.
The Board ordered the respondent to cease and desist from such
activities and from giving effect to its contract with the association.
It further ordered the respondent to withdraw recognition from the
association as a representative of its employees and to disestablish it
as such representative.
Matter of eating Rope -Works, Inc.," similarly illustrates the
numerous activities of the employer which led to his domination of
a labor organization. The case has an added significance because it is
typical of the six cases 77 decided during the last fiscal year in which
the Board has found that an employer has dominated and interfered
with a labor organization after receiving the advice of L. L. Balleisen,
industrial secretary of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce
In the Cating Rope Works case, immediately after an organizer
for a genuine union had requested an appointment for collective
bargaining, the respondent called a meeting of its employees and
suggested that they consider the desirability of a company union.
On the following day the respondent's vice president consulted L. L.
Balleisen, who furnished him with the forms for the organization
of a company union. The respondent later called another meeting
of its employees at ,which the respondent's officials disparaged the
organizers of the legitimate union and served notice that they would
not sign a contract with any "outside" union. The respondent's vice
president, reading from a statement prepared by Balleisen, announced
that the respondent would enter into a contract with a committee of
employees and the employees individually, but that it would not sign
a contract with any union. The statement contained an outline of the
16 Matter of eating Rope Works, Inc., and Teotile Workers Organizing Committee,
C. I. 0., 4 N. L. R. B. 1100.
"In addition to Matter of eating Rope Works, Inc., supra, the cases are Matter of
Metropolitan Engineering Company and Metropolitan Device Corporation and United Electrical
and Radio Workers of America, Local No. 1203, 4 N. • L. R. B. 542; Matter of The
Jacobs Bros. Co., Inc., and United Electrical and Radio Workers of America, Local No. 1226,
5 N. L. R. B. 620; Matter of David E. Kennedy, Inc., and Isidore Greenberg, 6 N. L. R. B.
699; Matter of Art Crayon Company, Inc., and Its Affiliated Company, American Artists
Color Works, Inc., and United Artists Supply Workers, 7 N. L. R. B. 102; Matter of
National Licorice Company and Bakery and Confectionery 'Workers International Union of
America, Local Union 405, Greater New York and Vioinity, 7 N. L. R. B. 537.