Hamilton

This is an appeal from an order of the district court directing appellant to comply with a subpena duces tecum issued by the National Labor Relations Board in a pending proceeding involving alleged unfair labor practices occurring in July and August of 1946. Appellant is an employee of one of the parties to the proceeding and admittedly has in her custody certain records and documents of that party germane to the inquiry. She declined to respond to the Board’s subpena on the ground that the Board lacks jurisdiction of the proceeding inasmuch as the practices occurred more than six months prior to the lodging of the charges. See § 10(b) of the Act as amended by the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947, 29 U.S.C.A. § 160 (b). Jurisdiction is lacking, she says, on the further ground that the labor organization concerned, and its officers, were not shown to have complied with the requirements of § 9(f), (g), and (h) of the amended Act, 29 U.S.C.A. § 159 (f-h), nor did the Board’s complaint allege compliance.

The Board had jurisdiction to issue the complaint and to conduct the proceeding. It had power to hear and determine in the first instance the various legal questions that might…