National Labor Relations Board v. T. W. Phillips Gas & Oil Co‪.‬

The respondent, T. W. Phillips Gas & Oil Company, is a Pennsylvania corporation which has its principal office and place of business at Butler, Pennsylvania.It is engaged in the business of producing, selling and distibuting natural gas and crude oil. In 1942 it produced natural gas of a value in excess of $3,750,000. At least fifty percent of the gas it produced was transmitted and sold by it to copanies engaged in interstate commerce. These companies were American Rolling Mills Company, Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Company, Allegheny-Ludlum Steel Corporation, Aluminum Company of America, Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation, and United Engineering & Foundry Company. The balance of the gas was transmitted to other gas companies for consumption within Pennsylvania, to the United States Post Office Department, to telephone and telegraph offices, department stores, motion picture theatres and other small commercial and residential consumers, primarily for heating purposes. During 1942 the respondent produced crude oil valued at more than $40,000. About half of this was sold to South Penn Oil Company, Valvoline Pipe Lines Company, and Pennsylvania Refining Company. The other half was sold to Quaker State Refining Corporation which is engaged in interstate commerce. The respondent expends about $100,000 annually for equipment and supplies and about $10,000 of this is sold to it by vendors outside the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.