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194 THIRD ANNUAL REPORT OF <strong>NATIONAL</strong> <strong>LABOR</strong> <strong>RELATIONS</strong> <strong>BOARD</strong><br />

In Matter of Stack pole Carbon Company, 66 the employer moved one<br />

department of its factory to a town eight miles away from the town<br />

in which the balance of the factory was located. The Board said :<br />

The removal of its volume control department to Johnsonburg, approximately<br />

8 miles from St. Marys, cannot be said to have destroyed that mutuality of<br />

interest between production employees of that department and production employees<br />

of other departments in the respondent's plant which existed before<br />

the removal. It does not appear that the problems of the production employees<br />

of the volume control department are different in Johnsonburg from what they<br />

were in St. Marys.<br />

It was therefore held that prior to the removal, the appropriate unit<br />

was limited to employees in the one town, whereas thereafter, it<br />

included employees in both towns.<br />

(I) SEPARATE COMPANIES AND SUBCoN TRACTORS<br />

The Board has held in several cases that the employees of separate<br />

companies, whose only relationship to one another is the fact that they<br />

are competitors, did not constitute a single appropriate unit. In<br />

Matter of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studiosr a proceeding which involved<br />

a large number of companies, it was contended by one union<br />

that the employees of those companies which were members of an<br />

association, which had been made a party to the proceeding, should<br />

be considered as one unit: After discussing the extent to which the<br />

association had acted for its members in the past, the Board said :<br />

The foregoing shows that, in certain instances, the Association has negotiated<br />

on behalf of various motion picture companies as regards the employment conditions<br />

of certain occupational groups in the motion picture industry. The<br />

evidence does not disclose whether in negotiating particular agreements the<br />

Association represented companies other than those constituting its membership<br />

or whether it represented its entire membership. Nor is the extent or the character<br />

of the Association's participation revealed in most instances. The record<br />

does not show that. the Association is authorized generally to control labor<br />

policies or to handle employment problems of members of the Association.<br />

Clearly, it cannot be concluded on the basis of the evidence now before the<br />

Board that the Association is an employer within the meaning of the Act or<br />

that screen writers employed by companies which are members of the Association<br />

should be included within a single bargaining unit.'<br />

In one town, within a radius of 3i mile) ; Matter of United Shipyards, Inc. and Locals<br />

No, 12, No, 13, No. 15 of the Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of<br />

America, 5 N. L. R. B. 742 (situation similar to that in the Todd case above) ; Matter of<br />

Standard Oil Company of California and Oil Workers International Union, Local 299,<br />

5 N. L. R. B. 750 (three refineries in one State) ; Matter of American Steel & Wire Company<br />

and Steel and Wire Workers Protective Association, 5 N. L. R. B. 871 (twelve widely<br />

distributed plants of one employer) ; Matter of C. A. Lund Company and Novelty Workers<br />

Union, Local 1366 (A. F. of L.) successor, 6 N. L. R. B. 423 (two plants 20 milcs<br />

apart) ; Matter of Aluminum Company of America and Its Wholly Owned Subsidiaries.<br />

The Aluminum Cooking Utensil Company and The Aluminum Seal Company and International<br />

Union Aluminum Workers of America, 6 N. L. R. B. 444 (five plants of which one<br />

was 1 mile away from the others) ; Hatter of Phelps Dodge Corporation United Verde<br />

Branch and International Association of Machinists, Local No. 220; International Brotherhood<br />

of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders and Helpers, Local No. .406; International<br />

Brotherhood of Electrical 1Vorkers. Loral No. B 657: and International Brotherhood of Carpenters<br />

and Joiners, Local No. 1061, 6 N. L. R. B. 624 (mine and smelter, 7 miles apart)<br />

Matter of Waggoner Refining Company, Inc.. and W. T. Waggoner Estate and International<br />

Association of Oil Field, Gas Well and Refinery Workers of America,- 6 N. L. R. B. 731<br />

(refinery and oil well 21 miles apart) ; and Matter of American Oil Company and Oil<br />

Workers' International Union, 7 N. L. B. B. 210 (two plants 3 miles apart).<br />

6° Matter of Stackpole Carbon Company and United Electrical & Radio Workers of<br />

America, Local No. 502, 6 N. L. R. B. 171.<br />

67 Matter of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, and Motion Picture Producers Assn., et al.,<br />

and Screen Writers' Guild. Inc., 7 N. L. R. B. 662.<br />

See also : Matter of Des Moines Steel Company and Lodge 2071, Amalgamated Association<br />

of Iron, Steel & Tin Workers of North America, through Steel Workers Organizing<br />

Committee, affiliated with C. 1. 0., 6 N. L. R. B. 532; and Matter of Alaska Packers Association<br />

and Alaska Cannery Workers Union Local No. 5, Committee for Industrial Organization,<br />

7 N. L. R. B. 141.

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