A. L. Casady, Doing Business As Casady Coal Co. And United Mine Workers Of America, District 13, Subdistrict 1, 1245 (1942)

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A. L. Casady, Doing Business As Casady Coal Co. And United Mine Workers Of America, District 13, Subdistrict 1, 1245 (1942)

In the Matter of A. L. CASADY, DOING BUSINESS AS CASADY COAL Co.

and UNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA, DISTRICT 13, SUBDISTRICT 1 Case No. C-1989.-Decided February 16, 1942 Jurisdiction: coal mining industry.

Unfair Labor Practices Interference, Restraint and Coercion: anti-union statements and declaration of union preference by employer; entering into closed-shop contract with dominated union; attempts to learn union affiliations of employees; attempts to persuade employees to join dominated union.

Company-Dominated Unions: formation instigated and aided by agent of respondent who, though not a supervisory employee, was reasonably identified by the employees with respondent; opportunity of employees to select officers and to participate in management of affairs of organization greatly restricted;

employer held to have given support by inducing employees to join dominated organization, by signing closed-shop contract with check-off with it, and by expressing to employees his preference of it to bona fide union and his opinion that employees would benefit by joining.

Discrimination: discharge of employee because of refusal to join companydominated organization; charges of inferior work found to be without merit.

Remedial Orders: respondent ordered to cease and desist from unfair labor practices; to withdraw recognition from dominated union; to disestablish closed-shop contract with dominated union; to reimburse employees for amounts deducted from wages as fees and dues in dominated union, less any amount that may have been refunded by union; and to reinstate with back pay employee discriminatorily discharged.

Mr. Guy Farmer, for the Board.

Mr. Robert Valentine, of Centerville, Iowa, for the respondent.

Mr. James P. Agnessen, of Centerville, Iowa, for the Union.

Mr. William Hollenbeck, of Exline, Iowa, for the Alliance.

Miss Mary E. Perkins, of counsel to the Board.

DECISION AND ORDER STATEMENT OF THE CASE Upon an amended charge1 duly filed by United Mine Workers of America, District 13, Subdistrict 1, affiliated with the Congress of SA charge was filed on October 17, 1940, and the amended charge on February 10, 1941.

Industrial Organizations, herein called the Union, the National Labor Relations Board, herein called the Board, by the Regional Director for the Eighteenth Region (Minneapolis, Minnesota), issued its complaint dated August 29, 1941, against A. L. Casady, doing business as Casady Coal Co., Exline, Iowa, herein called the respondent, alleging that...

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