Republic Aviation Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board

L. HAND, Circuit Judge.

This case raises two questions. The first is whether the Board has power to forbid an employer, who has promulgated a rule, generally forbidding solicitation of any kind in his plant, to apply it to prevent electioneering for a union during the lunch hour. The second is whether the Board may compel an employer whose plant has not yet been “organized,” to allow employees to wear “shop steward” buttons while at work, or whether he may confine the wearing of such buttons to those who are “stewards” of a union of his own employees. The first question is to be distinguished…