SINCE the enactment of the National Labor Relations Act' on July 5, 1935, the National Labor Relations Board appointed pursuant to Sec. 3 (a) has rendered more than one hundred decisions. The constitutionality of the act has been submitted to the Supreme Court for decision2 and may soon be determined; but even if the act is held invalid, the body of decisions handed down by the Board is an important source of precedent and experience for possible future administrative and legislative action. This comment will not discuss the constitutionality of the act (treated elsewhere in this issue3), the right of employers to restrain administrative hearings by the Board, or the problems attending enforcement of the Board's orders. It is proposed to discuss here the Board's substantive interpretation of the act insofar as it appears from the Board's decisions.4
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