Buzza-Cardozo

The National Labor Relations Board petitions for enforcement of its order requiring reinstatement of a group of 11 employees found to have been discriminatorily discharged by respondent.

Respondent is engaged in the manufacture and sale of greeting cards. In the au tumn of 1950 it instituted a bonus-incentive wage plan. This plan was not satisfactory to the employees in its silk-screen department, and, on January 17, 1951, these employees met with the management and demanded a wage increase. When the demand was refused they informed the management that they would stay away from work the next day, and the next day 11 of the employees in that department did not report for work. Those not reporting were immediately discharged and were so informed. Subsequently others were hired in their stead.

The Board found that in discharging the employees the respondent had violated § 8 (a)(1) and (3) of the Act, 29 U.S.C.A. § 158 (a)(1,3). As respects the § 8(a)(1) violation, it was found that the strike was an economic strike, that the employees had engaged in concerted activities for their mutual aid and'protection and that in discharging them respondent had interfered with the employees in…