National Labor Relations Board v. Roberts Brothers

STEPHENS, Circuit Judge.

Respondent Roberts Brothers is an Oregon corporation which owns and operates a chain of department stores in the principal cities of Oregon. On December 3, 1952, Local 201 of the Retail Clerks’ International Association AFL advised respondents by letter that they represented a majority of the employees in respondent’s Eugene store. Before the start of work on December 6, the employees of the Eugene store were called together and were addressed by the store manager who told them that the company was aware that the union was attempting to organize the employees, that the…