National Labor Relations Board v. Pierce Bros. National Labor Relations Board v. Forest Lawn Memorial-Park Ass'n, Inc

Involved here are petitions for enforcement of Board orders based on findings of violations of § 8(a) (1) and (3) of the National Labor Relations Act, 29 U.S.C.A. § 158 (a) (1, 3). The cases will be disposed of in a single opinion inasmuch as the businesses in which the respondents are engaged are substantially the same and the questions raised are identical.

Respondent Pierce Brothers is a California corporation engaged in the undertaking business. During the year in which the practices occurred it purchased equipment, materials and supplies of which a substantial amount was shipped to it either directly from outstate or was originally manufactured outside the state, though purchased and shipped locally. It provided mortuary services in a very large number of cases, and received approximately a quarter million dollars for services and supplies furnished in connection with 544 bodies which it shipped for burial to points outside California. It received approximately $42,000 for services in 178 cases where bodies were later cremated by a wholly-owned subsidiary and the remains thereafter shipped out of the state.

Respondent Forest Lawn is a non-stock, non-profit cemetery…