National Labor Relations Board v. International Rice Milling Co., Inc. et al. (341 U.S. 665)
U.S. Supreme Court · decided June 4, 1951 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Citation
- 341 U.S. 665 · 71 S. Ct. 961
- Docket
- No. 313
- Argued
- February 27, 1951
- Decided
- June 4, 1951
- Term
- October Term 1950
- Vote
- 9–0
- Majority author
- Justice Burton
- Issue area
- Unions
- Disposition
- Reversed
- Outcome
- Petitioning party won
- Ideological direction
- Liberal
How the Justices voted
- Majority
- Chief Justice Vinson, Justice Minton, Justice Clark, Justice Burton (wrote), Justice R. H. Jackson, Justice Douglas, Justice Frankfurter, Justice Reed, Justice Black
Opinion excerpt
Me. Justice Burton delivered the opinion of the Court. The question presented is whether a union violated § 8 (b) (4) of the National Labor Relations Act, 49 Stat. 449, 29 U. S. C. § 151, as amended by the Labor Management Relations Act, 1947, under the following circumstances: Although not certified or recognized as the representative of the employees of a certain mill engaged in interstate commerce, the agents of the union picketed the mill with the object of securing recognition of the unión as the collective bargaining representative of the mill employees. In the course of their picketing, the agents sought to influence, or in the language of the statute they “encouraged,” two men in charge of a truck of a neutral customer of the mill to refuse, in the course of their employment, to go to the mill for an order of goods. For the reasons hereinafter stated, we hold that such conduct did not violate § 8 (bj (4). This case was heard here with No. 393, Labor Board v. Denver Building Trades Council, post, p. 675; No. 108, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers v. Labor Board, post, p. 694; and No. 85, Local 74, United Brotherhood of Carpenters v. Labor Board, post, p. 707. Its facts, however, distinguish it from those cases. This review is confined to the single incident described in the complaint issued by the Acting Regional Director of the National Labor Relations…
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