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156: FOURTH ANNUAL REPORt-OF NATIONALLABOR RELATIONS BOARDcultural labor from employees engaged in agricultural processingand justifying the inclusion of the latter group within the scope ofthe act and brief studies relating to the question of appropriatebargaining unit, particularly the difficulty of defining the term"craft."'Publications and other general material.—Materials preparedoriginally for a specific case or group of cases were in a number ofinstances enlarged and edited for general use. Data which had beenprepared to justify the Board's assumption of jurisdiction in a wireservice case and in a number of newspaper cases were edited andextended for general use in the form of Bulletin No. 3, "CollectiveBargaining in the Newspaper Industry." Similarly, material preparedas exhibits and as a basis for testimony in the Inland Steel 18ease was amplified for general use in cases involving the relationshipof the written agreement to the collective bargaining process. Theoutline and bibliography entitled "Effective Collective Bargaining,"and the research memoranda entitled "Union-Employer Responsibility"and "The Role of Supervisory Employees in Spreading EmployerViews" were outgrowths of work done in connection with• specific cases, released in mimeographed form because of theirgeneral application.Another type of general material was that prepared by the Divisionin anticipation of cases involving a common issue, e. g.,material prepared on the status of the insurance agent within themeaning of the Act and background and interpretative material onindependent unions for use in all Board cases in which there wereallegations of employer domination of such organizations.Direct requests for publications of the Division were continuallyreceived from libraries, employers, unions, professors, students, andothers. These requests were filled to the extent that the supplywould permit Among the publications sent out in answer torequests, the following were released during the last fiscal year:BulletinsNo. 3. Collective Bargaining in the Newspaper Industry, October 1938.Research MemorandaNo. 3. Role of Supervisory Employees in Spreading Employer Views. Z-358.November 8, 1938.No. 4. Union-Employer Responsibility. ED-2. Lyle Cooper, January 16, 1939:No. 6. Brief in Support of the Allegations in the Complaint. Z-316. In theMatter of The Western Union Telegraph Company, a corporationand American Communications Association. David J. Saposs, KatherineP. Ellickson, and Will Maslow.No. 7. Savings Resulting from the Effective Operation of the National LaborRelations Act in 1938, Compared with Costs of Its Operation. Z-531.David J. Saposs and Morris Weisz, June 15, 1939.No. 8. Structure of A. F. L. Unions. David J. Saposs and Sol Davison. (Printedin Labor Relations Reporter, May 15, 1939.)No. 9. Rapid Increase in Contracts. David J. Saposs and Sara Gamin. (Printed',in Labor Relations Reporter, June 12, 1939.)Research. OutlineNo. 7. Effective Collective Bargaining: Outline and Bibliography. Z-395. David!- J. Saposs and Lyle Cooper, December 14, 1938.18 9'14. L. R. B. 483..