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On March 25, 1936, certain Locals of the International Union of Mine', Mill & Smelter Workers filed a charge with the National Labor Relations Board alleging unfair labor practices affecting interstate commerce in violation of the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 1 by the Eagle-Picher Lead Company and the Eagle-Picher Mining & Smelting Company.

On May 5, 1936, the Board issued its complaint against the Companies in which it alleged: That the Mining Company is a Delaware corporation engaged in the business of mining lead and zinc ores and smelting and refining lead and zinc concentrates and secondary lead bearing materials; that it owns and operates lead and zinc mines in Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma; that it engages in mining and concentrating gold, silver, lead and zinc ores at Ruby, Arizona; that it owns and operates mines of barytes at Mineral Point, Missouri; that it owns and operates a mill at Picher, Oklahoma, in which it mills the ores from its mines; that it owns and operates a plant at Galena, Kansas, in which it smelts lead concentrates and secondary lead bearing materials and manufactures pig lead, sublimed white and sublimed blue lead; that it operates a…