Show N L R B 6 Sets Study of Proposal To Let Employers Ask Election V WASHINGTON ASHINGTON May 12 UP p- p The national labor relations board Friday scheduled a hearing for May 19 on a proposal to permit employers to question the majority majority majority major major- ity of a union and ask for Cor an elec elec- tion If adopted it would apply only to wartime disputes While the board would not say the labor-employer labor hearing was prompted by the Montgomery Ward Yard dispute the issue was Wa a major factor in the Chicago con con- Sewell Avery head of the mail order firm challenged the unions union's majority and refused to extend a contract with the C United ClO I 1 Mail Order Warehouse Warehouse Ware Ware- house and Retail The war labor board asked the union itself to petition the N L R B for another election which it won Tuesday with the result that the government returned the seized properties s to the company Next weeks week's hearing will be on the question of whether it should supplement its rules and regulations regulations regulations regula regula- so as to permit employers involved in labor disputes pending before any federal agency to file petitions with the N NLRB L R B for the investigation and certification of representatives |