National Labor Relations Board v. E. A. Holcombe and J. N. Holcombe, D/B/A Holcombe Armature

TUTTLE, Chief Judge:

This petition by the National Labor Relations Board is very small in substance. The Board charged the respondent with violating Sections 8(a) (3) and (1) of the Act by suspending eight employees because, after they had been told that a fellow employee, Barnes, had been discharged for cause, 1 they had walked off the job. Thereupon, respondent sent letters to the eight employees suspending them for the balance of the week.

During part of the time the eight employees were off, they formed a picket line. The day of the walk-out one Crouch was employed by the company for the…