NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD

192 THIRD ANNUAL REPORT OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
the fact that two plants owned by a company cooperate in the manufacture
of some of the company's products supports a finding of one
unit for the employees at both plants."' In Matter of Waggoner Refuming
Company, Inc., 51 the fact that the operations of the respondent's
refinery were entirely dependent on those of its other departments
was held to support a finding that the refinery employees, although
situated 21 miles away from the respondent's oil fields, belonged in
the same unit with the oil field employees.
In Matter of Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc.,52 the company
operated a Nation-wide broadcasting system. One union claimed that
the company's radio technicians and engineers in New York constituted
an appropriate unit, while another contended that a unit limited
to one portion of the company's system was not appropriate. In
sustaining the contention of the latter, the Board said :
As is generally true in the communications industry, and in radio broadcasting
in particular, the work at the various stations must be perfectly coordinated.
To distribute satisfactorily radio programs to an international audience requires
instantaneous functional coherence throughout the Company's system. Such
coherence is made possible by constant intercommunication among the technicians
and engineers by direct wires connecting the stations. The elimination of time
and distance. by the use of radio and the wire line results in all the technicians
associated with • a program, wherever located, working together as a closely
coordinated unit.
The Board has also held that a system-wide unit for employees of a
telegraph and radio communication company was appropriate," and
that, where one of two unions had organized on a system-wide basis,
units limited to one portion of the system of a gas and electric 54 or of
an electric 5 6 utility company were not appropriate.
A total lack of functional coherence between two departments of a
company tends to indicate that a single unit for the employees in both
departments is not appropriate. Thus, where a company's enameling
plant was in no way related to its two foundries," or where a company's
foundry was operated entirely seParately from its other manufacturing
departments, 57 or where a power-house was similarly separated
from a company's manufacturing plant, 58 the Board has .found
that separate units were appropriate.
paper Guild of New York, 4 N. L. It. B. 1071 ; Matter of McKesson & Robbins, Inc.,
Blumauer Frank Drug Division and International Longshoremen S Warehousemens Union,
Local 9, District 1, affiliated with the C. I. 0., 5 N. L. R. B. 70; and Matter of Lidz Brothers,
Incorporated and United Wholesale Einplo.yees, (Loco/ No. 65), 5 N. L. R. B. 757.
50 Matter of Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company of California and United Rubber
Workers of America, Local 131, 3 N. L. R. B. 431; Matter of Ohio Foundry Company and
International Molders' Union of North America, Local No. 218, and Amalgamated Association
of Iron, Steel, & Tin Workers of North America, Local No. 1596, 3 N. L. R. B. 701; and
Matters of Rossie Velvet Company and Charles B. Rayhall and Textile Workers Organizing
Committee of the Committee for industrial Organization, 3 N. L. R. B. 804.
51 Matter of Waggoner Refining Company, Inc., and TV. T. Waggoner Estate and International
Association of Oil Field, Gas Well and Refinery Workers of America, 6 N. L.
R. B. 731.
52 Matter of Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. and American Radio Telegraphists
Association, 6 N. L. R. B. 166. .
53 Matter or Mackay Radio Corporation. of Delaware. Inc. and Mackay Radio & Telegraph
Company, a Corporation and American Radio Telegraphists' Association, 5 N. L. R. B. 657.
54 Matter of Wisconsin Power and Light Company and United Electrical, Radio & Machine
Workers of America, Local No. 1134, 6 N. L. R. B. 320.
5° Matter of Tennessee Electric Power Company and International Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers, 7 N. L. R. B. 24.
50 Matter of Ohio Foundry Company and International Molders' Union of North America,
Local No. 218, and Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, & Tin Workers of North
America, Local No. 1596, 3 N. L. R. B. 701.
Matter ofCombustion Engineering Company, Inc. and Steel Workers Organizing Committee,
for and in behalf of Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers of
North America, 5 N. L. R. B. 344.
5° Matter of The IVarfie/d Company, a corporation formerly known as The Thomson
Taylor Company and International Union of Operating Engineers, Local No. 399, and
International Brotherhood of Firemen and Oilers, Local No. 7, 6 N. L. R. B. 58.