National Labor Relations Board v. Englander Co.

The National Labor Relations Board, hereinafter called the Board, has petitioned this court for the enforcement of its order against Respondent Company, the Englander Company, Inc., its officers, agents, successors and assigns, hereinafter called Englander, and Respondent Union, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Ware-housemen and Helpers of America, Ware-housemen’s Local Union No. 117, its officers, agents, successors and assigns, hereinafter called Teamsters.

This court has jurisdiction by virtue of Section 10(e) of the National Labor Relations Act as amended, 29 U.S.C.A. § 160 (e).

The proceedings before the Board arose generally as follows. Englander had furniture manufacturing plants in Oakland and Los Angeles. Prior to January, 1956, it did not have a plant in Seattle. In December, 1955, John Spar-rowk, general manager of Englander’s western division with headquarters at Oakland, learned of the possibility of acquiring the plant in Seattle of Craftmas-ter, Inc., and went to Seattle to investigate. Negotiations for the purchase of the plant began, and culminated some weeks later on January 16, 1956, with the purchase by Englander of a portion of the…