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

This case is before the Court upon the petition of the National Labor Relations Board, pursuant to Section 10(e) of the National Labor Relations Act, as amended, 29 U.S.C.A. § 160 (e), for the enforcement of the Board’s Order issued February 20,1957, against International Woodworkers of America, Local Union No. 13-433. This is the second time this case has been before the Court. On the first occasion (9 Cir., 238 F.2d 378 ), when the case was considered for summary entry of decree, the matter was remanded and the Board was directed to make a determination of the matter on the record. On remand the Board made new findings on the so-called “alternative” issues referred to by this Court in its opinion in N.L.R.B. v. Technicolor Motion Pictures Corp., 9 Cir., 248 F.2d 348 . A portion of the Board’s “Supplemental Decision” entered by it on February 24, 1958, after it had considered the record as directed by the remand order is as follows'.

Briefly stated the facts show that Ralph L. Smith Lumber Company was engaged in a logging operation near Anderson, California. The camp was unionized under a collective bargaining contract between the Union and the Lumber Company, the employer,…