Mclain Fire Brick Comipany And United Brick Clay Workers Of America, Affiliated With The American Federation Of Labor, (1941)

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Mclain Fire Brick Comipany And United Brick Clay Workers Of America, Affiliated With The American Federation Of Labor, (1941)

RELATIONS BOARD In the Matter of McLAIN FIRE BRICK COMIPANY and UNITED BRICK CLAY WORKERS OF AMERICA, AFFILIATED WITH THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR Case No. C-1919.-Decided October 10, 1941 Jurisdiction: fire brick and clay products manufacturing industry.

Unfair Labor Practices.

Interference, Restraint, and Coercion: discriminatory enforcement of company rule forbidding union activity on company property while permitting similar activity by company-dominated union, held to constitute interference, restraint, and coercion.

Conmpany-Dominated Union: failure of employer to announce publicly and unequivocally to employees upon enactment of Act that it was severing all connection with labor organization established by Company prior to Act held to violate Section 8 (2) of Act.

Remedial Orders: disestablishment of dominated organization ordered.

Mr. Harry Brownstein, for the Board.

Reed, Smith, Shaw & McClay, by Mr. John C. Bane, Jr., and Mr.

Seward H. French, of Pittsburgh, Pa., for the respondent.

Mr. Robert A. Wilson, of Washington, D. C., for the Union.

Mr. Charles W. Schneider, of counsel to the Board.

DECISION AND ORDER STATEMENT OF THE CASE Upon an amended charge duly filed on May 6, 1941,1 by United Brick & Clay Workers of America, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, herein called the Union, the National Labor Relations Board, herein called the Board, by the Regional Director for the Sixth Region (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), issued its complaint dated May 8, 1941, against McLain Fi...

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