Hearst Publications, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board

The question here is whether these adult news vendors, miscalled boys, are employee selling agents of the publishers or independent contractors, who obtain title when a certain sum is charged against them on their receipt of the papers from the publishers. If I were free to draw my own inferences from the testimony, I would decide that they were independent contractors, engaged in their own businesses on their respective spots. •

However, we are not free to draw our own inferences, and the sole question before us is whether the Board reasonably could infer from the varied incidents of the…