National Labor Relations Board v. S. E. Nichols Co.

FRIENDLY, Circuit Judge:

S. E. Nichols Company through its subsidiary Nichols Discount City operates a retail store in Elmira, N. Y. Four departments are leased to licensees ; while the licenses provide that each licensee shall hire its employees at its own expense, they contain provisions for Nichols’ control of wages, fringe benefits and other matters as well as a right to dismiss any employee and to intervene in any of the licensees’ labor disputes. This, along with evidence that all employees were treated as a single group, justified the Board in finding that Nichols, Discount City and the…