J. F. Hoff Electric Company v. National Labor Relations Board, Local Union 323, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Intervenor

*1268WALD, Circuit Judge:

This case poses the problem of whether a “neutral gate,” set up by a construction contractor to insulate neutral employers at a common site from the impact of union picketing, lost its protected status when supplies, intended to be used by the primary employer1 but ordered and owned by the owner of the construction project, were delivered through the gate. The primary employer, J. F. Hoff Electric Company, filed an unfair labor practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board when the Local 323, Int’l Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, picketed the gate, charging…