—membership on board a company's boats, while permitting a rival organization to solicit there, the Board found that the necessary effects of impeding employees in the free choice of representatives was a violation of the law.

This is the usual form of order, and has frequently been employed in cases where this Court has sustained Board orders

In these cases strikers, who by the terms of the act were employees, were not required to apply first for renewal of their jobs to an employer whose discrimination made applications useless, in order to be reinstated with back pay by order of the board.

—the preferential contract, which presumably was made by a statutory representative, was found not to call for the practices for which the employer was held liable.

In addition, striking employees may be relieved of the necessity of applying for reinstatement where the evidence indicates that the employer has a well defined policy of notifying employees to return to work

Custom and Usage An employee's relationship is not terminated at the termination of a voyage where the custom in the industry is that unless he is discharged or resigns he is given an opportunity to sign on again.

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