National Labor Relations Board v. Montgomery Ward & Co.

GARRECHT, Circuit Judge.

Montgomery Ward & Company, herein referred to as “Wards”, is an Illinois corporation, having its principal offices in Chicago, Illinois. At the time of the Labor Board hearing it operated, in its business of selling merchandise at retail, nine mail order houses, 650 retail stores, and 206 mail order sales units, in various cities and towns in the United States. In Portland, Oregon, Wards operated a mail order house and a retail store. Approximately ninety per cent, of the merchandise distributed by the Portland establishments was shipped to Portland from states outside…