Dant

The National Labor Relations Board has petitioned this court to enforce an order issued by the Board in a proceeding against respondents, Thomas W. Dant and others, partners doing business as Dant & Russell, Limited. Answering the petition, respondents pray that it be denied and that the order be vacated.

The proceeding was initiated by International Woodworkers of America, Local 6-7, a labor organization hereafter called the union, which was at all pertinent times an affiliate of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, a national labor organization hereafter called the C.I.O. The union initiated the proceeding on August 3, 1949, by making and filing with the Board a charge under subsection (b) of § 10 of the National Labor Relations Act, as amended, 29 U.S. C.A. § 160, thereby charging that respondents had engaged and. were engaging in unfair labor practices listed in § 8 of the Act, as amended, 29 U.S.C.A. § 158 . On March 28, 1950, the Board issued a complaint pursuant to the charge. On that complaint, after notice and hearing, the Board issued the order here sought to be enforced.

Subsection (h) of § 9 of the Act, 29 U.S. C.A. § il59, provides that “no complaint shall be…