Dant

The National Labor Relations Board, hereafter the Board, requests enforcement of its order against certain named individuáis doing business as Dant & Russell, Ltd., respondents. The Board found that Max Gassner and Henry J. Christopherson, employees of respondents, because of their union activities had been discriminatorily discharged in violation of § 8(a)(1) and (3) of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947, hereafter called the Act, 29 U.S.C.A. § 158 (a)(1) and (3).

We have for consideration the substantiality of the evidence supporting the Board’s order and apply the established rule that the evidence must be looked to as a whole in making our determination. The evidence credited by the trial examiner and relied on by the Board was in substance as follows:

Max Gassner was hired by respondents in December, 1944, and Henry Chris-topherson was hired in May, 1947, as contract lumber pilers. Their regular job was to stack piles of green lumber purchased by respondents from various saw mills and dumped in respondents’ yard. The work is done on a piece work basis by two-man teams. Gassner and Christopherson worked on different teams and only in emergencies did they work…