Opinion ID: 1477516
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 5

Heading: Seymour, Indiana and Tyrone, Pennsylvania.

Text: Petitioner was found to have violated Sections 8(1) and (2) of the Act at each of these plants. At each place local business men became active in repelling the organization of the employees by Amalgamated. At Tyrone, a meeting of business men was attended by Plant Superintendent Kirby, at which it was suggested that the organizers be requested to leave town. They were subsequently questioned and told to get out of town. The supervisors in the plant were advised in the presence of Superintendent Kirby to keep their eyes and ears open and to report to him any union activity. When it was suggested to him that foremen were not supposed to have anything to do with it, Kirby replied: Theoretically we are not, but that is not practical. There is also evidence that Kirby told foremen that petitioner would not tolerate any union activity. At Seymour, a Citizens' Committee was organized whose activities in combatting the union were along the same lines as described heretofore at Columbus, and which also had petitioner's support. Personnel Manager Brown (over all of petitioner's plants), in talking to employees, referred to the Amalgamated as nothing but Communists and Reds and warned that if its organizers attended a Reliance picnic, they were likely to get hurt. One Crowmer, (referred to heretofore in our discussion concerning the Michigan City plant) for whose activities the Board properly found petitioner responsible, offered one union organizer $300 per month if he would report the names of the employees who had joined the union. At these plants, as at others, independent unions were formed shortly after the outside union commenced to organize. There is evidence that the organizers for the Independents were permitted to leave their work for the purpose of consulting attorneys concerning the organization of such unions and that petitioner's plants were shut down on several occasions for the purpose of enabling employees to attend such organization meetings. We think the Board was justified in finding that petitioner violated 8(1) and (2) of the Act.