NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD

VII. PRINCIPLES ESTABLISHED 161
methods of the past, in the absence of any indication that a change
in these methods has become necessary. Similarly, the fact that collective
bargaining has followed certain forms elsewhere in the industry
involved tends to indicate that such forms will be successful with
regard to the employer and the employees involved in the particular
case.
In Matter of Biles-Coleman Lumber Company ill a question al.ose
as to whether logging camp employees should be included in one
appropriate unit with men at the respondent's saw mill and factory
at Omak, Washington. In holding that they should not, the Board
stated:
A most important consideration in determining an appropriate unit in this
case is the history of collective bargaining among the respondent's employees.
The only employees of the respondent who have at any time organized for the
purpose of collective bargaining are the employees at the Omak plant * * *
It is also significant that the respondent did not object to the unit claimed by
the union during its negotiations with the union, but has for the first time
raised the question in this proceeding.
In Matter of Standard Oil Company of California,92 in holding
that a unit confined to one of the company's refineries was not
appropriate, the Board said:
Much substantial evidence was adduced in support of the contentions of the
S. E. A. and the Company for a State-wide unit, comprising the employees in all
three refineries. Since 1933 the S. E. A. has held several general conferences
with the management of the company at the latter's principal office in San Francisco,
California, concerning rates of pay, wages, hours of employment, classifications,
and other conditions of employment of employees in all three refineries.
From time to time agreements have been arrived at covering these employees.
The practice which has been followed in labor relations with an
employer is aptly shown by the existence of a contract between it and
Ds Matter of Bites-Coleman Lumber Company and Puget Sound District Council of Lumber
and Sawmill Workers, 4 N. L. R.. B. 879.
vs Matter of Standard Oil Company of California and Oil Workers International Union.
Local 299, 5 N. L. R. B. 750. See also : Matter of Huth & James Shoe Mfg. Company
and United Shoe Workers of America, 3 N. L. R. B. 220; Matter of Great Lakes Engineering
Works and Detroit Metal Trades Council, 3 N. L. R. B. 825; Matters of Jones Lumber
Company, West Oregon Lumber Company" Clark cE Wilson Lumber Company, B. F. Johnson
Lumber Company, Port/and Lumber Mtn, Inman-Poulsen Lumber Company, and Eastern
& Western Lumber Company and Columbia River District Council of Lumber and Sawmill
Workers' Union No. 5, etc., et al., 3 N. L. R. B. 855; Matter of Chase Brass and Copper
Company, Inc. and Waterbury Brass Workers Union, 4 N. L. R. B. 47; Matter of
Waterbury Clock Company and International Association of Machinists, 4 N. L. R. B.
120; Matter of Gulf Oil Corporation and International Brotherhood of Boilermakers.
Iron Shipbuilders. Welders cE Helpers of America, 4 N. R. B. 133; Matter of The
Texas Company, West Tulsa Works, and Oil Workers' International Union, Local No. 217.
4 N. L. R. B. 182; Matter of Curtis Bay Towing Company and Maine Engineers'
Beneficial Association No. 5, 4 N. L. R.. B. 360; Matter of Wilmington Transportation
Company and Inland Boatmen's Union of the Pacific, San Pedro Division, 4 N. L. R. B.
750; Matter of Canadian Fur Trappers Corporation, Canadian Fur Trappers of New
Jersey, Inc., Jordan's Inc., Morris Dorn feld doing business as Werth's Wearing Apparel.
and Department and Variety Stores Employees Union, Local III5—A, 4 N. L. R. B. 904:
Matter of Todd Shipyards Corporation, Robins Dry Dock and Repair Co., and Tietjen and
Lang Dry Dock Co. and Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America,
5 N. L. R. B. 20; Matter of American Manufacturing Company; Company Union of the
American Manufacturing Company; the Collective Bargaining Committee of the Brooklyn
Plant of the American Manufacturing Company and Textile Workers' Organizing Committee,
C. I. O., 5 N. L. R. B. 443; Hatter of H. B. Fletcher Co., and Granite Cutters'
International Association of America, 5 N. L. R. B. 729; Matter of Tennessee Copper Company
and A. P. of L. Federal Union No. 21164, 5 N. L. R. B. 768; Matter of American
Steel & Wire Company and Steel and Wire Workers Protective Association, 5 N. L. R. B.
871; Matter of The Griswold Manufacturing Company and Amalgamated Association of
Iron, Steel and Tin Workers of North America, Lodge No. 1197, 6 N. L. R. B. 298; Matter
of Waggoner Refining Company, Inc., and W. T. Waggoner Estate and International
Association of 0i/ Field, Gas Well and Refinery Workers of America, 6 N. L. R. B. 731;
and Matter of Industrial Rayon Corporation, a Delaware Corporation, and Textile Workers
Organizing Committee, 7 N. L. R. B. 877.