Southern Steamship Co. v. National Labor Relations Board

Upon the petition of a union not a party to the present suit, the National Labor Relations Board ordered an election among petitioner’s unlicensed employees to determine their collective bargaining representative. The elections were held on board seven of petitioner’s vessels during October, 1937. In the case of the election on board the S. S. City of Houston, the labor organizations involved objected to the presence of any representative of the petitioner during the voting, and consequently none was admitted by the Board. No such objection was raised with respect to the subsequent balloting,…