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...said Justice Harold H. Burton, writing the Supreme Court majority opinion (joined by Felix Frankfurter, Tom Clark, William Brennan, Charles Evans Whittaker and John Marshall Harlan). Even assuming that the Taft-Hartley Act permits the NLRB to assess unions for back pay in certain cases, that, said Burton, would not prevent a plaintiff from seeking full damages in state courts. To hold otherwise, he wrote, would "grant to unions a substantial immunity" from the consequences of illegal mass picketing or coercion...
...think even the committee was prepared for the shocking pattern of viciousness, lawlessness and disregard for the laws of the land to which many witnesses have testified here." Sample testimony: Nashville Teamsters negotiated contracts with pile-driving fists; Knoxville Teamsters dynamited truckers who refused to bargain without NLRB elections; Chattanooga Teamsters bombed, burned and escaped the consequences by passing $20.000 in bribes that, by strong inference, influenced the decision of the county judge trying the case...
...CARGO PACTS, by which common-carrier truck lines agree to boycott cargo going to or from any company that is branded "unfair" by Teamsters Union, are invalid. NLRB reversed its 1949 decision, said that such contracts are secondary boycotts in violation of Taft-Hartley...
ECONOMIC BOYCOTTS by unions representing only a minority of a company's workers are illegal, says NLRB. Board found such campaigns constitute the same kind of economic pressure as picketing by minority unions to force recognition, which NLRB also ruled unfair. Rulings are expected to upset nationwide boycott of O'Sullivan Rubber Corp. by United Rubber Workers, which recently lost right to represent O'Sullivan employees...
Kohler will appeal the ruling to the full NLRB. The company argued that some of the discharged workers were only temporary employees, working on Government contracts, who were laid off when the contracts were terminated. As for the wage raise, said Kohler, it was offered to the union and turned down before the strike. If the board rejects the appeal, Kohler will have to open some of its books to the U.A.W. and resume peace talks on the union's terms...