The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1936-05-22

By A. #. OF l.. News Service.
Washington, d. C.-Recent orders
issued by the National Labor Rela-
tions Board requiring three concerns
to end their violations of the Wag-
ner-C Connery labor disputes act are
outstanding illustrations of the con-
tinuance of anti-union policies by GER
tain employers regardless of Statutory
provisions outlawing such practices.
The Wagner -Connery act makes it
illegal to interfere with the right OF
employees to organize in bona flde
trade union and carry on normal trade
union activities and prohibits en-
ployers from discriminating against
employees because of their trade union
membership and from refusing to
bargain collectively with representa-
tives of employees. In the three cases
under consideration the board found
the employers guilty of these illegal
practices and ordered their immediate
cessation
Union Boycotted, Strikers Blacklisted
The Rollway Bearing Co, Inc, OF
Syracuse, N. Y, according to the re-
port of the board, discharged 20 en-
ployes last July and August under
pretense of reducing output. Most
of the employees were members and
officers of Federal Labor Union
1882, affiliated with the American
Federation of Labor In addition,
company officials refused to meet
and bargain with union representa-
tives. Following this, the union called
a strike, which was ended the latter
part Of October. From the beginning
of the controversy the company en-
ployed new workers and refused to
employ the strikers.
The board ordered the company to
offer employment to all the strikers
who have not obtained equivalent jobs
elsewhere in cases where the posi-
tions formerly held by such strikers
are now filled by persons who have
been employed subsequent to the
strike, and to reinstate with adjusted
back pay three members of the union
who were discharged previous to the
strike because of their union mem
bership and activity. To protect the
employees in their right to organize
the board instructed the company tt
cease and desist from discouraging
membership in the union and from IN
terfering in any other manner witt
or coercing its employees in the exer
else of their rights to organize anc
bargain collectively guaranteed by
the national labor relations act.
Refuses to Bargain Collectively
The case of the Jeffery-DeWitt In
sulator Company of Kenoba, w Va.
is another striking illustration of VIC
lation of the Wagner-Connery act
According to the decision of tn,
board, local of the United Brick ant
Clay Workers of America was organ
lied in the company's plant in 1888
In 1885 a strike occurred following
the failure Of the company and TIL
union to reach an agreement concern
ing seniority, union shop and check
off
Despite the intervention of fedora
and state conciliators the compan
refused to meet a committee of tn
striking employees, although they wer
still employees of the company accord
ing to the terms of the Wagner bill.
The board found that the company
refusal to negotiate with the striker
through the conciliators was merel
the final expression of its determine
ton not to bargain collectively" an
was consequently a violation of tn
act.
Ordered to Deal With Union
To remedy this injustice the boar
ordered the company to offer re-en
ployment to the striking employe
where the positions held by such pei
sons before the strike are now filled b
persons who were first employed b