American Ship Building Co. v. National Labor Relations Board

The American Ship Building Company seeks review of a decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit enforcing an order of the National Labor Relations Board which found that the company had committed an unfair labor practice under §§8(a)(1) and (3) of the National Labor Relations Act.1 The question presented is that expressly reserved in Labor Board v. Truck Drivers Local Union, 353 U. S. 87, 93; namely, whether an employer commits an unfair labor practice under these sections of the Act when he temporarily lays off or “locks out” his employees during a…