National Labor Relations Board v. United Mine Workers of America

The National Labor Relations Board has petitioned for the enforcement of an order issued by it against District 2 of the United Mine Workers of America and four of its officers and representatives. The Board found that the respondents in the course of an organizing drive which began in July, 1950 had violated Section 8(b)(1)(A) of the National Labor Relations Act, as amended, 29 U.S.C.A. § 158(b)(1)(A), by restraining and coercing the employees of Ziros Company, Mercury Mining and Construction Corporation and Pine Hill Coal Company, coal mining operators, and Richard H. Gaiser, a coal trucking contractor, from exercising the rights guaranteed to them by Section 7 of the act. The Board found that the restraint and coercion had involved mass invasions of the mining facilities of Ziros, Mercury and Pine Hill, threatening employees of those operators and of Gaiser with economic reprisals, force and violence, and barring their ingress or egress to and from work.