National Labor Relations Board v. International Woodworkers of America, Afl-Cio, Local Union No. 13-433

National Labor Relations Board has petitioned this Court for summary entry of a decree enforcing its order in this case. Respondent International Woodworkers has filed a reply to the petition for summary entry of the decree, wherein it is set up that the Board affirmed the findings of the Intermediate Report and Recommended Order of the Trial Examiner without any consideration of the merits on the points raised in the exceptions of respondent thereto. It is also alleged that the Board did not make this summary adoption of the recommended order of the Trial Examiner for a week after it had actually received the exceptions of respondent thereto. The ground that the Board took was that the exceptions of respondent were not before it inasmuch as time was extended to respondent to have the exceptions in Washington on January 20, 1956, whereas the exceptions were not delivered to the Board until January 23, 1956. Respondent alleges on information and belief that respondent’s exceptions actually were in Washington on January 20, 1956, but that they were not delivered to the office of the Board on that day because the office of the Board had closed at 4:00 p. m., on January 20, 1956, and…