National Labor Relations Board v. Holtville Ice & Cold Storage Co.

Upon charges filed by a local union affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, and following the usual procedure under § 10 of the National Labor Relations Act, 1 the petitioner issued its decision and order directed toward the respondents and now asks our decree of enforcement.

The respondent Holtville Ice Company ■manufactures and distributes ice. During 1941 and 1942 it sold nearly all its product to vegetable packers in the Imperial Valley, California. It owns packing sheds there and leases them to purchasers of its ice. In these sheds the vegetables are packed and placed in railroad refrigerator cars for shipment. > In 1942 not less than 75'% of the cars of vegetables iced with the Company’s product were shipped in interstate commerce. Respondent Associated Farmers is a nonprofit corporation composed of *169 farmers, business and professional people of Imperial Valley. Respondent Osborne is its Secretary-Manager. The purpose of Associated Farmers, according to its articles of incorporation, is to preserve American institutions and ideals, combat subversive doctrines and the dictatorship of individuals or groups, and to promote and protect the economic and agricultural…