NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD

54 THIRD ANNUAL REPORT OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
of Carlisle Lumber Company ' 2 the sales manager offered the union
leader a lucrative position in another city if he would abandon his
union activities; in Matter of Stack pole Carbon Company 38 the factory
manager promised two union officers a building, which they
could use for lousiness purposes, if they would quit the union. At
times, inducements have been proffered by the employer to thegeneral
body of employees. Thus, in Matter of McNeely & PriceCompany
14 the employees were offered vacations with pay for voting
• against representation by a union to which the company was opposed.
Similarly, in Matter of Jacob A. Hunkele 15 the company
undertook to increase substantially the employees' wages if they
would abandon the union.
3. INCITEMENT TO VIOLENCE AND VIOLENCE AGAINST UNION LEADERS, ORGANIZERS,
AND mEmBERs
In some cases the employer, for the purpose of disorganizing and
defeating union activity, has sought to instigate or cause the commission
of acts of violence against union organizers and leaders and union
members. In one case an overseer of the company offered to buy an
employee a gallon of whiskey if he would stamp hell out of' an
active union employee. 16 In another case, a forelady supplemented
her attempt to dissuade employees from accepting union pamphlets
by the following suggestion having reference to the organizer who
distributed the literature : "What do you say, girls, we ( rive her a
beating" 17 Marked conduct of this sort was revealed in Matter of
Clover Fork Coal Company. 18 The company and the Harlan County
Coal Operators' Association, an employer organization of which the
company was a prominent member, conducted a literal reign of terror
against unionization. Union organizers were ordered out of the
county at the point of guns ; one organizer's hotel room was flooded
with tear gas ; another organizer, a minister, was shot at. The general
superintendent of the mine told employees : "If one of my men
will pick up a stick and whip hell out of one of them organizers, I
will * * * see he don't put in a day in jail and I will pay the
fine." On another occasion he proposed that the men throw the union
organizers into the river.
In some strike cases, the employer not only sought to incite or did
incite violence against union organizers and members, but in connection
therewith sought to create a situation of general disorder in order
to demoralize the striking employees and to justify appeals to "law
12 Matter of Carlisle Lumber Company and Lumber and Sawmill Workers' Union, Local
251_1, 2 N. L. R. B. 248, order enforced in National Labor Relations Board v. Carlisle Lumber
Co., 94 F. (2d) 138 (C. C. A. 9th, 1937), certiorari denied, 304 U. S. 575.
"Matter of Stackpole Carbon Company and Electrical d Radio Workers of America,
Local No. 502, 6 N. L. R. B. 171.
"Matter of McNeely d Price Company and National Leather Workers Association,
6 N. L. R. B. 800.
"Matter of Jacob A. Hunkele and Local No. 40 United Laundry Workers Union, 7
N. L. R. B. 1276.
"Matter of Mansfield Mills, Inc., and Tecetile Workers Organizing Committee, 3 N. L. R. B.
901. See also Ma ter of United Carbon Company, Inc., and Oil Workers International
Union, 7 N. L. R. B. 598, where the plant superintendent proposed that an employee
start a fight with another employee who was active in the union so that the company could
discharge the latter.
17 Matter of Tiny Town Togs, Inc., and International Ladies' Garment Workers Union.
7 N. L. R. B. 54. See also Matter of Phillips Packing Company, Inc., and United.
Cannery, Agricultural, Packing and Allied Workers of America, 5 N. L. R. B. 272, where
two of the company's supervisors participated in an attempt to run an active union
member out of town.
"Matter of Clover Fork Coal Company and District 19, United Mine Workers of America,
4 N. L. R. B. 202.