National Labor Relations Board v. Weyerhaeuser Timber Co.

This is a petition of the National Labor Relations Board for the enforcement of its order directed against the respondent, Weyerhaeuser Timber Company, predicated on *235 the allegedly discriminatory discharge of two employees of the latter.

Respondent is a corporation engaged in the business of logging and manufacturing lumber and timber products in the State of Washington. Approximately 85% of the product of its lumber mills is sold to customers in states other than Washington. A still larger percentage of the output of its pulp mills is disposed of to customers outside that state. Its business is thus substantially of an interstate character. 2 The case involves the operations of what is known as the Clemons branch. This branch is owned by and is a part of respondent company and is directly under the supervision and management of respondent’s officers and directors, although its operations are in general entrusted to a branch manager. We agree with the Board that the operations of the Clemons branch are not to be considered as something separate and apart from other divisions of respondent’s business; hence the jurisdiction of the Board is clear.

During 1940 the…