NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD

194 THIRD ANNUAL REPORT OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
In Matter of Stack pole Carbon Company, 66 the employer moved one
department of its factory to a town eight miles away from the town
in which the balance of the factory was located. The Board said :
The removal of its volume control department to Johnsonburg, approximately
8 miles from St. Marys, cannot be said to have destroyed that mutuality of
interest between production employees of that department and production employees
of other departments in the respondent's plant which existed before
the removal. It does not appear that the problems of the production employees
of the volume control department are different in Johnsonburg from what they
were in St. Marys.
It was therefore held that prior to the removal, the appropriate unit
was limited to employees in the one town, whereas thereafter, it
included employees in both towns.
(I) SEPARATE COMPANIES AND SUBCoN TRACTORS
The Board has held in several cases that the employees of separate
companies, whose only relationship to one another is the fact that they
are competitors, did not constitute a single appropriate unit. In
Matter of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studiosr a proceeding which involved
a large number of companies, it was contended by one union
that the employees of those companies which were members of an
association, which had been made a party to the proceeding, should
be considered as one unit: After discussing the extent to which the
association had acted for its members in the past, the Board said :
The foregoing shows that, in certain instances, the Association has negotiated
on behalf of various motion picture companies as regards the employment conditions
of certain occupational groups in the motion picture industry. The
evidence does not disclose whether in negotiating particular agreements the
Association represented companies other than those constituting its membership
or whether it represented its entire membership. Nor is the extent or the character
of the Association's participation revealed in most instances. The record
does not show that. the Association is authorized generally to control labor
policies or to handle employment problems of members of the Association.
Clearly, it cannot be concluded on the basis of the evidence now before the
Board that the Association is an employer within the meaning of the Act or
that screen writers employed by companies which are members of the Association
should be included within a single bargaining unit.'
In one town, within a radius of 3i mile) ; Matter of United Shipyards, Inc. and Locals
No, 12, No, 13, No. 15 of the Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of
America, 5 N. L. R. B. 742 (situation similar to that in the Todd case above) ; Matter of
Standard Oil Company of California and Oil Workers International Union, Local 299,
5 N. L. R. B. 750 (three refineries in one State) ; Matter of American Steel & Wire Company
and Steel and Wire Workers Protective Association, 5 N. L. R. B. 871 (twelve widely
distributed plants of one employer) ; Matter of C. A. Lund Company and Novelty Workers
Union, Local 1366 (A. F. of L.) successor, 6 N. L. R. B. 423 (two plants 20 milcs
apart) ; Matter of Aluminum Company of America and Its Wholly Owned Subsidiaries.
The Aluminum Cooking Utensil Company and The Aluminum Seal Company and International
Union Aluminum Workers of America, 6 N. L. R. B. 444 (five plants of which one
was 1 mile away from the others) ; Hatter of Phelps Dodge Corporation United Verde
Branch and International Association of Machinists, Local No. 220; International Brotherhood
of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders and Helpers, Local No. .406; International
Brotherhood of Electrical 1Vorkers. Loral No. B 657: and International Brotherhood of Carpenters
and Joiners, Local No. 1061, 6 N. L. R. B. 624 (mine and smelter, 7 miles apart)
Matter of Waggoner Refining Company, Inc.. and W. T. Waggoner Estate and International
Association of Oil Field, Gas Well and Refinery Workers of America,- 6 N. L. R. B. 731
(refinery and oil well 21 miles apart) ; and Matter of American Oil Company and Oil
Workers' International Union, 7 N. L. B. B. 210 (two plants 3 miles apart).
6° Matter of Stackpole Carbon Company and United Electrical & Radio Workers of
America, Local No. 502, 6 N. L. R. B. 171.
67 Matter of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, and Motion Picture Producers Assn., et al.,
and Screen Writers' Guild. Inc., 7 N. L. R. B. 662.
See also : Matter of Des Moines Steel Company and Lodge 2071, Amalgamated Association
of Iron, Steel & Tin Workers of North America, through Steel Workers Organizing
Committee, affiliated with C. 1. 0., 6 N. L. R. B. 532; and Matter of Alaska Packers Association
and Alaska Cannery Workers Union Local No. 5, Committee for Industrial Organization,
7 N. L. R. B. 141.