Hickory Springs Manufacturing Company v. National Labor Relations Board

GEE, Circuit Judge:

Campaign tactics preceding a representation election held among twenty over-the-road truck drivers at the petitioning em ployer’s Fort Smith, Arkansas, facility draw before us two interesting questions of labor law. The first concerns the effect of “sincere-money” payments exacted by the union as a precondition to its organizing effort — a sort of Savair -in-reverse condition. 1 The second involves the effect on the election’s validity of pre-election threats of picket line violence, arguably made or adopted by the union, and of threats and misconduct by union supporters in…