Retail Fruit & Vegetable Clerks Union, Local 1017 v. National Labor Relations Board

• Petitioners bring the instant proceeding to this Court for review and seek an order setting aside an order of the National Labor Relations Board (herein “Board”) issued against petitioners on August 24, 1956. Board in its answer requested enforcement of its order.

This case arose when negotiations between Retail Grocery Clerks Union, Local 648 (herein “Local 648”), and the Retail Grocers Association of San Francisco 1 (herein “Association”) resulted in a failure of the parties to agree on a collective bargaining agreement. On or about February 3, 1955, Local 648 picketed two stores operated by members of Association, and Association members responded by a “lockout” on the theory that a “strike” against one is a strike against all members of Association.

Association bargained for the member firm of J. M. Long and Co., Inc. (herein “Long”). Long owned and operated a property called the Crystal Palace Market (herein “Market”) in San Francisco. Long not only owned and managed the Market building as a whole, but directly operated several departments therein: a grocery, an appliance store, a sport shop, a housewares department, two liquor, tobacco and magazine departments, a grocery…