Pramco, Inc. v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Cohen,

Appellants are forty-five employees of Pramco, Inc., (Company), a blouse manufacturer in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. The majority of the shareholders of Company also owned Monarch Mfg. Co., a New York partnership which manufactured blouses. As owners of Monarch, they signed an agreement with International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union (Union) not to subcontract work to any shop not organized by Union.

Company required all its employees to sign affidavits that they neither were nor would become Union members. In November, 1955, Union attempted to organize the…