National Labor Relations Board v. United Mine Workers of America

This is a petition for enforcement of an order of the National Labor Relations Board issued against respondents.

On June 29 and 30, 1949, a crowd varying in number from 1,000 to 2,500 members of respondent unions, led by Suver and Chaney, union agents, visited six nonunion mines in Western Kentucky for the purpose, as stated by Suver, of unionizing “all the non-union mines in the territory.” The union agents demanded that the mines be shut down and the miners called out so that the union men might talk to them. The groups varied from 50 to 250 men in the six mines. The immediate cause for…