National Labor Relations Board v. P. Lorillard Co.

The Board found that the respondent, P. Lorillard Company, had committed an unfair labor practice within the meaning of § 8 (5) of the National Labor Relations Act, 49 Stat. 449, 453, by refusing to bargain collectively with Pioneer Tobacco Workers’ Local Industrial Union No. 55, which was at the time the duly selected bargaining representative of a majority of Lorillard’s employees. The Board affirmatively ordered Lorillard to bargain collec tively with Local No. 55. On the Board’s petition for enforcement the court below sustained the Board’s finding, but, expressing the belief that because…