Court Opinion

ID: 9640175
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 17:00:02.754322+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:10:27.924915
License: Public Domain

WOODROUGH, Circuit Judge
(concurring in part).
It appears to me that the corporation vested Miss Weitzel with such authority, actual and apparent, over the girls who worked under her that the evidence of the threats and coercion she employed towards them, as well as of the discharges made at her instigation, were competent against the corporation.
I can not concur in the court’s. comment upon the conduct of the examiner. It seems to me that it is the function of an examiner to earnestly try to find out the truth from the witnesses before him. It also seems to me that where, as in this case, the lawyer for the company union was suggested by the company’s managing officers, a shrewd question or two about that matter was fairly in order. I see no error in the Board’s conclusion as to reinstatement and back pay for the unlawfully discharged employees. They went on strike against unlawful action of the company and of course were unwilling to work for the company during the strike. But upon their vindication by the Board and this court, the remedy accorded them was proper.
In all other respects I concur in the court’s opinion and recognize the painstaking care that has been given to working out just solutions of the many difficult problems presented on the large record.