Amendments to the National Labor Relations Act: Hearings Before the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Eightieth Congress, First Session, on H. R. 8, by Mr. Smith of Virginia; H. R. 725, by Mr. Case of South Dakota; H. R. 880, by Mr. Hoffman; and H. R. 1095 and H. R. 1096, by Mr. Landis, Bills to Amend and Repeal the National Labor Relations Act, and for Other Purposes ...

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Page 11 - labor organization" means any organization of any kind, or any agency or employee representation committee or plan, in which employees participate and which exists for the purpose, in whole or in part, of dealing with employers concerning grievances, labor disputes, wages, rates of pay, hours of employment, or conditions of work.
Page 817 - person" includes one or more individuals, partnerships, associations, corporations, legal representatives, trustees, trustees in bankruptcy, or receivers. 2. The term "employer" includes any person acting in the interest of an employer, directly or indirectly...
Page 17 - ... (c) For the purposes of actions and proceedings by or against labor organizations in the district courts of the United States, district courts shall be deemed to have jurisdiction of a labor organization (1) in the district in which such organization maintains its principal office, or (2) in any district in which its duly authorized officers or agents are engaged in representing or acting for employee members.
Page 12 - Nothing in this Act shall be construed to require an individual employee to render labor or service without his consent...
Page 813 - Experience has proved that protection by law of the right of employees to organize and bargain collectively safeguards commerce from injury, impairment or interruption, and promotes the flow of commerce by removing certain recognized sources of industrial strife and unrest...
Page 16 - Provided, That (A) such payments are held in trust for the purpose of paying, either from principal or income or both, for the benefit of employees, their families and dependents...
Page 16 - ... for the sole and exclusive benefit of the employees of such employer, and their families and dependents (or of such employees, families, and dependents jointly with the employees of other employers making 'similar payments, and their families and dependents...
Page 16 - Produced" means produced, manufactured, mined, handled, or in any other manner worked on in any State ; and for the purposes of this Act an employee shall be deemed to have been engaged in the production of goods if such employee was employed in producing, manufacturing, mining, handling, transporting, or in any other manner working on such goods, or in any process or occupation necessary to the production thereof, in any State.
Page 817 - The Board shall decide in each case whether, in order to assure to employees the fullest freedom in exercising the rights guaranteed by this Act, the unit appropriate for the purposes of collective bargaining shall be the employer unit, craft unit, plant unit, or subdivision thereof...
Page 11 - Act explicitly states otherwise, and shall include any individual whose work has ceased as a consequence of, or in connection with, any current labor dispute...