National Labor Relations Board v. Sun Co. Of San Bernardino, California

The Board found violations of § 8(a) (1) and § 8(a) (3) of the National Labor Relations Act, 29 U.S.C.A. § 158 (a), (1, 3), to have been committed by respondent company. It entered certain orders.

In considering the request of the Board to enforce its orders we are confronted with the task, usually present in N. L. R. B. enforcement cases, of determining whether the record discloses substantial evidence to support the Board’s findings. Preliminarily it may be stated that we have found it helpful in evaluating the evidence to keep in mind that the labor record of the respondent company is not one of outright antagonism to labor unions. In some of its departments the employees were members of and represented by a Union. Its top officials did have, for reasons which do not clearly appear, an unfriendly attitude toward the International Typographical Union. The Typographical Union attempted to organize the composing room employees whereupon certain company officers became active in opposition thereto. Mr. Guthrie, the president, called a meeting of the composing room employees on January 24, 1952, at which meeting he said, among other things: “I am prohibited by law from telling you…