NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BD. v. BOTANY WORSTED MILLS

Nos. 6708, 6890.

106 F.2d 263 (1939)

NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD v. BOTANY WORSTED MILLS, Inc. BOTANY WORSTED MILLS v. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

August 3, 1939.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles Fahy, General Counsel, Robert B. Watts, Associate General Counsel, Laurence A. Knapp, Mortimer B. Wolf and Samuel Edes, all of Washington, D. C., for National Labor Relations Board.

Putney, Twombly & Hall, of New York City (Louis H. Hall, Lemuel Skidmore, and Frederic R. Sanborn, all of New York City, of counsel), for Botany Worsted Mills.

Before BIGGS, MARIS, and CLARK, Circuit Judges.


CLARK, Circuit Judge.

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