NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD

VII. PRINCIPLES ESTABLISHED 165
has shown that it does not want organization of any character,9 or
that it wishes separate organization on plant lines, 9 or on craft lines:9
has militated in favor of separating that group from other employees.
fi However, where other factors tend strongly to show that
the separation demanded by a particular group is impractical, their
wishes are not decisive.12
The form of self-organization is emphasized in situations where
strikes have occurred. In Matter of Ohio Foundry Companyj s the
company operated three plants. One was an enameling plant, and
the other two, foundries. In holding that the enameling plant constituted
one appropriate unit and the two foundries together, another,
the Board pointed out that during a strike at the enameling plant,
employees in the foundries failed to join, and, on the other hand,
that a strike which commenced at one of the foundries spread
rapidly to the other.14
The Board has also given consideration to the forms which labor
organizations existing generally in the industry have taken. The
exclusion of a particular group of employees from an appropriate
unit may be justified by the fact that there are unions which these
employees are eligible to join. In Matter of American Sugar Refining
Company, 15 one of two unions claimed that longshoremen should
be excluded from a unit for production employees, and the other
contended that they should be included. In holding in favor of exclusion
the Board pointed out that none of the longshoremen had
joined the second union, , and that about one-half had joined a third
union, to which all were eligible. 19 However, the Board has also
Mat ter of The American Brass Company and The Waterbury Brass Workers' Union.
6 N. L. R. B. 723; and 31 alter of Minnesota Broadcasting Company Operating WTCN and
Newspaper Guild of the Twin Cities, Minneapolis and St. Paul, Local No. 2 of the American
Newspaper Guild. 7 N. L. R. B. 867.
Matter of Ohio Foundry Company and International Molders' Union of North America.
Local No. 218. and Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, cE Tin Workers of North
America, Local No. 1596, 3 N. L. R. B. 701.
"Matter of Great Lakes Engineering Works and Detroit Metal Trades Council, 3 N. L.
R. B. 825; Matter of The H. Neuer Glass Company and Federation of Flat Glass Workers
of America, 4 N. L. R. B. 65; Matter of Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company and Federation
of Flat Glass Workers of America, 4 N. L. R. B. 193; and Matter of Cutler-Hammer, Incorporated
and Local No. 278, International Union, U. A. W. A., affiliated with the
C. I. 0., 7 N. L. R. B. 471.
• The expression of a desire to be separated from other employees must be free and
untrammeled. Where it appears that the employer has participated too extensively in
discovering the will for separation, the Board will not give it great weight. Matter of
Fleischer Studios, Inc. and Commercial Artists & Designers Union—American Federation
of Labor, 3 N. L. R. B. 207; and Matters of Rossie Velvet Company and Charles B. Rayhall
and Textile Workers Organizing Committee of the Committee for Industrial Organization,
3 N. L. It. B. 804.
12 Hatter of News Syndicate Co., Inc. and Newspaper Guild of New York, 4 N. L. R. B.
1071; Matter of Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. and American Radio Telegraphists
Association, 6 N. L. R. B. 166; and Matter of Tennessee Electric Power Company and
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, 7 N. L. R. B. 24.
• Matter of Ohio Foundry Company and International Molders' Union of North America.
Local No. 218. and Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, cf Tin Workers of North
America, Local No. 1596, 3 N. L. R. B. 701.
14 See also Matters of Rossie Velvet Company Charles B. Ray/call and Textile Workers
Organizing Committee of the Committee for Industrial Organization, 3 N. L. R. B. 804;
Matter of Combustion Engineering Company, Inc. and Steel Workers Organizing Committee.
etc., 5 N. L. R. B. 344; and Matter of Fairbanks, Morse & Company and Pattern Makers
Association of Beloit. 7 N. L. It. B. 229.
15 Matter of America Sugar Refining Company and Committee for Industrial Organization,
4 N. L. R. B. 897.
" See also : Matter of American France Line at a/. and International Seamen's Union of
America, 2 N. L. R. B. 64; Matter of General Mills, Inc., doing business under the trade
name of Washburn Crosby Company and Flour, Feed, and Cereal Workers Federal Union
No. 19184, etc., 3 N. L. R. B. 730; Matter of Marlin-Rockwell Corporation and Local No.
ass, United Automobile Workers of America, 5 N. L. R. B. 206; Matter of Paragon Rubber
Co.-American Character Doll Company and Toy cE Novelty Workers Organizing Committee
of the C. I. 0., 6 N. L. R. B. 23; and Matter of Keystone Manufacturing Company
and United Toy and IC ovelty Workers Local Industrial Union No. 538 or the C. I. 0., 7 N.
L. R. B. 17