National Labor Relations Board v. Talladega Cotton Factory, Inc.

RIVES, Circuit Judge.

The petition for review presents the novel question of whether the Board may lawfully order reinstatement and back pay to supervisors discharged for failing at their employer’s behest to thwart a Union’s organizational efforts within a plant, 1 even though supervisors are expressly excluded from the definition of “employee” under the amended Act', because of the claimed restraint and coercive effect resulting from their discharge on the protected non-supervisory employees, in alleged violation of Section 8(a) (1) of the Act, 29 U.S.C.A. § 158(a) (1). Incidentally…