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and if he believes there is violation
he can ask for Federal court in
junction right away.
The injunction would block the
strike while the NLRB proceeded to
study the dispute and decide which
union ought to handle the work.
Jurisdictional strikes are to get
priority under the board rules and
in general the procedure for ham
ding them will be as follows:
When charge is filed in re-
glonal Office the regional director
makes q quick investigation and, il
he thinks further proceedings are
IN order, he holds hearing within
10 days. The parties have this 10
days to settle their own dispute or
arrange for settlement. II they
don't, ID hearing Is held to get the
pertinent facts" on the record.
Procedure on Charges.
The board III Washington receives
this record and makes decision
as to which employees shall perform
a particular work.
Then the regional director con-
fers with the parties and if salts
fled they will comply, he diSmisses
the charge, and the case is over.
II the parties are not complying
with the boards verdict, the re-
gional director issues formal COM
plant against the noncomplying un-
ion and from then on it is handled
like any other unfair labor prac-
tice" case-With ultimate court en-
forcement If necessary.
At any time in the procedure, the
regional director may ask for tenn
porary injunction.
The board also announced that
whenever union files a charge
against an employer it must present
with the charge, or within 10 DAYS
afterWard, letter from the Labor
Department showing that the union
and all its parent organizations have
registered.
Where Appeals Go.
1t was decided, too, that when
ever a union appeals from the ad.
verse decision of a regional direc.
tor:
If it is a charge against an EN-.
ployer for an unfair" practice, the
appeal goes to the general counsel ir
Washington.
But II it is union petition fol
plant election, the appeal goes te
the board in Washington.
A few cases under the new Law
began trickling into the % NTIRE
field offices yesterday. The pattern
probably won't be clear for severa.
days at least.
Robert N. Denham, NLRB general
counsel, told a reporter, we're open
for business. He said he is salts
fed with the, NLRB staff and setup
but nobody has yet nailed up a
sign saying success He refused
to make any predictions.
The strike figures quoted by the
Labor Department, an official tolc
a reporter, included every work
stoppage in the country with several
involving only five or six workers.
The department will know Mon
day, this official said, how many
strikes were settled before all sec
tions OF the new law became oper-
ative.
Eleventh Hour Settlement.
Howard T. Colvin, acting director
of the Federal Mediation and Con-
ciliation Service, said that as OF
August 13 Federal conciliators were
attempting to settle 156 strikes in
volving $4,000 workers.
This represented a sizable de-
crease from the figure for the pre-
vious week, when Government medi.
ators sought settlements of Is;
strikes which kept $500 worker!
off their job.
Mr.. Colvin's figures, the Labol
Department emphasized, included
only those work stoppages which
mediation officials were attempting
to settle.
The department has reports, al
official said, that several settle
ments were reached at the eleventh
hour"
In one or two cases, this of1icia
added, union and management Off
cials used the legislative maneuvel
of stopping the clock" until fina
settlements were agreed on. H,
refused to discuss specific incidents
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