NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD

VII. PRINCIPLES ESTABLISHED 163
made substantially identical contracts with the same labor organization. These
agreements were also on an employer basis."
(B) FORA( OF PRESENT SELF-ORGANIZATION
Although section 9 (b) of the act vests in the Board discretion to
decide in each case whether the unit shall be the employer unit, craft
unit, plant unit, or a subdivision thereof, that discretion must be
exercised in a manner calculated "to insure to employees the full
benefit of their right to self-organization and to collective bargaining,
and otherwise to effectuate the policies of the act." Accordingly,
in determining the unit, the Board has given great weight to
the desires of the employees themselves, especially as manifested by
efforts at self-organization. In Matter of Marcus Loew Booking
Agency 1 the Board stated :
In determining the appropriate unit we also take into consideration the fact
that the company's radio broadcast engineers have organized along the lines
proposed by the American Radio Telegraphists' Association, and have shown a
desire for self-organization by becoming members of the American Radio Telegraphists'
Association.
Again, in Matter of Boorwm, and Pease Company, 2 the Board said :
It does not appear that any labor organization other than the United claims
to represent employees of the company. By their method of self-organization,
the employees have indicated their free choice as to the appropriate unit and no
cogent reason has been advanced for selecting a different unit_
Finally, in Matter of Daily Mirror, Inc., 3 the petitioning union contended
for a bargaining unit which excluded compositors and other
groups who were covered by existing contracts with other labor organizations,
but which claimed unit included composing room boys. The
Board said :
Functionally the composing room boys are much closer to the compositors than
to any other class of employees. Composing room boys are ineligible to join the
typographical organization, however, unless they become apprentices and undergo
a long training. Very few composing room boys have become apprentices in the
history of the Company. * * * Nearly all the composing room boys are members
of the petitioning Union. If the typographical craft organizations desired
to bargain for them we should be disposed to exclude them from a unit composed
largely of white-collar workers, but we are impelled by the consideration that
no one will bargain for these workers if the Union does not. We therefore include
composing room boys within the bargaining unit`
22 See also: Matter of Sheba Ann Frocks, Inc. and International Ladies' Garment Workers'
Union of America, Locals 121 and 204, 3 N. L. R. B. 97;- Matter of Mergenthaler Linotype
Company and United Electrical d Radio Workers of America, Linotype Local No.
, 1222, 3 N. L. R. B. 131; Matter of Huth, d James Shoe Mfg. Company and United Shoe
' Workers of America, 3 N. L. R. B. 220; Matter of Marcus Loew Booking Agency and
American Radio Telegraphist Association, 3 N. L. R.. B. 380; Hatter of Moffett Coal d
Coke Company_ and United Mine Workers of America, District 17, 4 N. L. R. B. 008;
Matter of M. H. Birge and Sons Company and United Wall Paper Craftsmen and Workers
of North America, 5 N. L. R.. B. 314; Matter of Standard 0i/ Company of California and
Oil Workers International Union, Local 299, 5 N. L. R.. B. 750; Matter of H. E. Fletcher
Co., and Granite Cutters' International Association of America, 5 N. L. R. B. 729; Matter
of J. J. Little d Ives Company and Bindery Women's Union Local No. 43, 6 N. L. R.
B. 411; Matter of American Oil Company and Oil Workers' International Union, 7 N. L. R. B.
210; Matter of Utah Copper Company, a corporation, and Kennecott Copper Corporation,
a corporation, and International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers, Local No. 392,
7 N. L. R. B. 928; and Matter of Fried, Ostermann Co. and Local 80, International Glove
Workers of . America, A. F. L., 7 N. L. R. B. 1075.
1 matter of Marcus Loci° Booking Agency and American Radio Telegraphists' A880Cill,
tion, 3 N. L. R. B. 380.
2 .3fatter of Boorum and Pease Company and United Paper Workers Local Industrial
Union #292, affiliated with the Committee for Industrial Organization, 7 N. L. B. B.
486.
3 Matter of Daily Mirror, Inc. and The Newspaper G-uikl of New York, 5 N. L. R. B. 362.
'See also Matter of Ohio Foundry Company and International Molders' Union of North
America, Local No. 218. and Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, d Tin Workers of
North America, Local No. 1596, 3 N. L. R. B. 701; Matter of Los Angeles Broadcasting