Fopd Motor Company And United Automobile Workers Of America, Local 440, 732 (1940)

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Fopd Motor Company And United Automobile Workers Of America, Local 440, 732 (1940)

In the Matter of FOpD MOTOR COMPANY and UNITED AUTOMOBILE WORKERS OF AMERICA, LOCAL 440 Case No. C-398.-Decided January 20, 1940 Automobile Manufacturing Industry-Interference, Restraint, and Coercion:

distributing anti-union literature to employees; questioning, advising, warning, and threatening employees with respect to the union and disparaging the effectiveness of the union as a bargaining agent; reporting union leader to immigration authorities in order to raise obstacles to his continued union activities; maintaining surveillance of a union meeting; charges of interference with distribution of union circulars, not sustained-Discrimination: charges of, as to 23 employees, not sustained.

Mr. Edward Schneider, for the Board.

Putnam, Bell, Dutch & Santry, by Mr. Arthur J. Santry, Mr.

Charles F. Dutch, and Mr. Roscoe Cross, of Boston, Mass., and Cravath, DeGersdorff, Swaine & Wood, by Mr. Frederick H. Wood and Mr. Alfred McCormack, of New York City, for the respondent.

Mr. Samuel Angoff, of Boston, Mass., and Davidow & Davidow, by Mr. Larry S. Davidow, of Detroit, Mich., for the Union.

Mr. Theodore W. Kheel, of counsel to the Board.

DECISION AND ORDER STATEMENT OF THE CASE Charges and amended charges having been filed by United Automobile Workers of America, Local 440,1 herein called the Union, the National Labor Relations Board, herein called the Board, by A.

Howard Myers, Regional Director for the First Region (Boston,

Massachusetts), issued its complaint dated September 3, 1937, against Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan, herein called the respondent, alleging that the respondent, at its Somerville, Massachusetts, plant, had engaged in and was engaging in unfair labor practices affecting commerce, within the meaning of Section 8 (1) and (3) and Section 2 (6) and (7) of the National Labor Relations Act, 49 Stat. 449, herein called the Act.

SThe second amended charge was filed by the United Automobile Workers of America.

732 With respect to the unfair labor practices, the complaint, as amended, alleged that-the respondent (1) distributed among its employees pamphlets and circulars disparaging labor organizations and advising them not to join such o...

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