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...aimed at curbing unionism among Deering Milliken's 19,000 other employees. The board ordered back pay (now an estimated $12 million), minus interim earnings, for Darlington's fired workers until they found equivalent jobs. The U.S. Court of Appeals in Richmond refused to enforce the NLRB order. The court said that Darlington had an "absolute prerogative" to quit business in whole or part at any time it wished. Having thus fairly ended the employment relationship, ruled the court, the company could not be held liable for union busting...
Chilling Unionism. When the NLRB appealed to the Supreme Court, Darlington hired an unusual advocate-North Carolina's Democratic Senator (and ex-State Supreme Court justice) Sam J. Ervin Jr. No law prevents members of the House or Senate from trying cases in any court except the U.S. Court of Claims, though purists looked askance at a U.S. Senator representing a private client against the U.S. Government-to say nothing of the fact that Ervin's constituents include thousands of North Carolina textile workers. Ervin, however, insisted that he was "fighting for the economic freedom of all Americans...
Work was resumed at noon yesterday on the new Radcliffe Study Center. According to a representative of the International Hod Carriers, Building, and Common Laborers Union, the jurisdictional dispute between the Laborers Union and the Plumbers Union will come up before the NLRB Tuesday...
...liable to prosecution under the Smith Act. Still other restrictions are placed on the functioning of a registered group; for example, mail sent by such a group must be labeled, "Disseminated by--, a Communist organization," and in the case of a labor union, the group loses its NLRB bargaining rights...
...NLRB's Frank McCulloch is a strong-minded Illinois Democrat, under whom the board has rarely risen above routine in handling the massive paper work of some 22,000 cases a year involving complaints of unfair labor practice and union jurisdictional disputes...