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

politan Device Corporation, 3s supervisory employees made anti union<br />

statements and advised employees not to join the United Electrical<br />

and Radio Workers. The Board ordered the employer to :<br />

Instruct all of their officials and agents, including their superintendents, foremen,<br />

and other supervisory employees, that they shall not in any manner approach<br />

employees concerning, or discuss with the employees, the question of<br />

their labor affiliation or threaten employees in any manner because of their<br />

membership in any labor organization in general, or the United Electrical and<br />

Radio Workers of America, Local 1203, in particular.<br />

Other affirmative orders have been issued in cases in which the<br />

Board found that the employer discriminated in his treatment of two<br />

labor organizations by granting special privileges to one of them and<br />

not to the other. In flatter of Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company,<br />

33 the employer allowed the Juneau Mine Workers Association<br />

to post notices on its bulletin boards but denied that privilege to the<br />

International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, Local 203.<br />

The Board ordered the employer to "prohibit the use of its bulletin<br />

boards for posting of notices by the Juneau Mine Workers Association<br />

[found to be employer-dominated] or any other labor organization<br />

of its employees unless free and unconditional privileges as to<br />

the use thereof shall be equally extended to International Union of<br />

Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, Local 203, and to any other labor<br />

organization of its employees." 40 In Matter of Waterman Steamship<br />

C,orporation,41 the employer refused to grant passes to authorized representatives<br />

of the National Maritime Union of America, for the same<br />

purpose and under the same conditions as it granted passes to representatives<br />

of the International Seamen's Union of America. The<br />

Board ordered the employer to cease and desist "from refusing to issue<br />

passes to authorized representatives of the National Maritime Union<br />

of America in equal numbers and under the same conditions as it<br />

grants passes to representatives of the International Seamen's Union<br />

of America or its successor."<br />

Additional affirmative action required by the Board to be taken in<br />

cases in which it has found that a. strike was caused or prolonged<br />

by an employer's unfair labor practices under section 8 (1) is discussed<br />

elsewhere in this section.'<br />

IS Matter of Engineering Company and Metropolitan Device Corporation and United<br />

Electrical and Radio Workers of America. Local No. 1203, 4 N. L. R. B. 542.<br />

so Matter of Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company and International Union of Mine, Mill.<br />

and Smelter Workers, Local 203, 2 N. L. R. B. 125.<br />

" See also Matter of Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Ir,c., et al. and United<br />

Electrical and Radio Workers of America, affiliated with the Committee for Industrial<br />

Organization, 4 N. L. R. B. 71, order enforced in Consolidated Edison Co. v. National Labor<br />

Relations Board, 95 F. (2d) 390 (C. C. A. 2d). certiorari granted, 58 S. Ct. 1038, where<br />

the Board ordered the employer to cease and desist from "permitting organizers and collectors<br />

of dues for International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers [favored labor organization]<br />

or any other labor organization to engage in activities among the employees in<br />

behalf of such labor organizations during working hours or on the respondent's property.<br />

unless similar privileges are granted to United Electrical and Radio workers of America<br />

and all other labor organizations of their employees." U. S. Sup. Ct., decided Dec. 5, 1938.<br />

' 41 Matter of Waterman Steamship Corporation and National Maritime Union of America,<br />

Engine Division, Mobile Branch, Mobile, Alabama, 7 N. L. R. B. 237.<br />

" See p. 209, infra.

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