National Labor Relations Board v. Alaska S. S. Co.

' The National Labor Relations Board petitions for enforcement of its order issued against Alaska Steamship Company (hereafter the Company) and American Radio Association, CIO (hereafter the Union).

The order proceeds on findings that the Company violated § 8(a) (3) and (1) of the Act by discriminatorily denying employment to one Horace Underwood, and that the Union violated § 8(b) (1) (A) 'and (2) by causing the Company to do so. The Company is a member of the Pacific Maritime Association and was a member of its predecessor, Pacific American Shipowners Association, referred to in the record as PASA. In December of 1948 PASA and the Union executed a bargaining agreement under which members of the PASA (including, of course, the Company) agreed among other things that the offices of the Union should be the central clearing bureaus through which all arrangements in connection with the employment of radio officers should be made, and that-when filling vacancies preference of employment was to be given to members of the Union.

Upon the making of this contract the Union adopted rules and procedure for carrying it into effect with respect to the assignment of radio officers to…