NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD

VII. PRINCIPLES ESTABLIS14ED 133
men Protective Association, Local No. 1510, International Longshoremen's
Association, was permitted to intervene in the proceedings.
The Board's decision states :
* • M. M. P. and I. L. A. are both affiliated with the American Federation
of Labor. The petitions filed by M. M. P. state that I. L. A. likewise seeks
to represent the licensed deck officers employed by the Companies. This claim
was also made by I. L. A. at the hearing. In conformity with our prior decisions
refusing to exercise jurisdiction in cases where two unions, each affiliated
with the same parent body, seek to represent the same employees, we will refuse
to exercise jurisdiction in the dispute between M. M. P. and I. L. A., and will
dismiss the petitions filed by M. M. P.
In Matter of Showers Brothers Furniture CompanV i there were
three labor organizations purporting to represent employees in the
appropriate unit, the Upholsterers, Furniture, Carpet and Awning
Workers, Linoleum Workers Union. Local No. 184, and the United
Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, affiliated with
the American Federation of Labor, and the United Furniture Workers
Local Industrial Union No. 496, affiliated with the Committee for
Industrial Organization. In order to avoid determination of any
jurisdictional dispute that might exist between the Upholsterers and
the Carpenters, the Board directed that the name of the American
Federation of Labor should appear on the ballot as the one organization
opposing the United Furniture Workers. A protest was filed
by the Upholsterers based on the contention that the election "would
not be conclusive in the event the American Federation of Labor were
to win the election," and "it would still not settle the issue between
the Carpenters and the Upholsterers * * s." The Board declared
that it—
did not, and does not, intend to attempt to determine a jurisdictional dispute
between two unions both affiliated with and subject to the discipline of, a single
parent body. It will make no determination in this case of the issue between the
Upholsterers and Carpenters, either on the basis of the results of an election
or otherwise. Whatever the results of this proceeding, that question remains, so
far as this Board is concerned, to be determined by the proper authorities of
the American Federation of Labor.'
Nevertheless, the Board has not blindly followed a technical rule
with respect to internal disputes within labor organizations, but
has been guided by facts of general knowledge and experience. In
Matter of Federal Knitting Mills Company 33 the Board said :
The Federation also contends that since the International Ladies' Garment
Workers Union has only been suspended, and not expelled, from the American
Federation of Labor the dispute which has arisen is an internal dispute within
the body of the Federation, in which the Board should not intervene. We have
already rejected a similar contention, however. In view of the fact that it is
a matter of common knowledge that unions affiliated with the Committee for
Industrial Organization have ceased to obey the orders of the Federation."
31 Matter of Showers Brothers Furniture Company and The Upholsterers. Furniture,
Carpet and, Awning Workers. Linoleum Workers Union. Local No. 184. 4 N. L. R. B. 585.
32 However. the Board amended its direction of election so that the name of the Upholsterers.
which had a much larger membership in the unit than the Carpenters, would appear
upon the ballot in Mace of the American Federation of Labor. The Board made this
reservation : "If the Upholsterers should, as a, result, be certified as the exclusive renresentative
of the employees. it is to he understood that the Board's action will not affect
whatever jurisdictional rights over the employees the Carpenters may have under the
governing provisions of the American Federation of Labor."
32 Matter of Federal Knitting Mills Company and Bamberger Reinthal Company and
International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, 3 N. L. R. B. 257.
"The Board cites Matter of Interlake Iron Corporation and Toledo Council, Committee
for Industrial Organization. 2 N. L. R. B. 1036, in which it stated : "In the present case,
however, although technically both the contending unions may be said to be affiliated with
the same organization, the American Federation of Labor, we should be blind, indeed, to