National Labor Relations Board v. Wine

The National Labor Relations Board petitions for enforcement of its order issued against respondent, Wine, Liquor & Distillery Workers Union, Local 1, Distillery, Rectifying and Wine Workers International Union of America, A.F. of L., pursuant to Section 10(e) of the National Labor Relations Act. Schenley Distillers, a Delaware corporation, is engaged in the manufacture and sale of whiskey and related products. It owns and operates approximately thirty distilleries located in various states other than New York, including one at Frankfort, Kentucky, operated by a wholly-owned subsidiary of Schenley, the George T. Stagg Company. Schenley maintains an office in New York City from which it sells its products to various distributors in the metropolitan area. The products are shipped directly to the distributors from the distilleries in states other than New York. The principal New York distributors receiving Schenley products are Jardine Liquor Corporation, Oxford Distributing Company, Peel, Richards, Ltd., McKesson & Robbins, Inc., Austin Nichols & Company, and Seggerman-Nixon Corporation, hereafter respectively referred to as Jardine, Oxford, Peel, McKesson, Austin, and Seggerman. The last three handle substantial quantities of liquor manufactured by other distillers, but the first three deal almost exclusively in Schenley products. No financial or corporate relationship exists between any of these distributors and Schenley, or among the various distributors. The monthly sales of each distributor are large. Those of Jardine alone have amounted to as much as $2,000,000, of which approximately 85% represented sales of Schenley products.