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Show HLRB Council CllesUMW Unit as Unfair WASHINGTON, June 29 UP) Robert N. Denham, National Labor La-bor Relations board general counsel, coun-sel, issued an unfair labor practice prac-tice complaint Tuesday against district 31 'of John L. Lewis' United Mine vfcrker of America. Denham charged that; UMW members obstructed entrance of four West Virginia coal mines and refused to let nonunion workers eome up from underground until they signed UMW membership cards. The incident occurred during the ix-week mine shutdown over the miners pension dispute in March. The complaint is based on charges filed by four firms Ruth-bell Ruth-bell Coal Co, Hartman Coal Co Eorgman Coal Co. and George Kef over Coal Co. The complaint, issued at Pittsburgh, Pitts-burgh, charges the union forced the mines to shut down by closing up the exits and permitted , the nonunion workers to come up only if they signed UMW union membership mem-bership applications. I As a condition of release from detention," the complaint said, i "the employes were required to sign aplications for membership in In the union." All four coal mines are in Preston Pres-ton county, W. Vs. A hearing on the complaint will be held before tnNLRB trial examiner Aug. 10 at Kingwood, W. Vs. The UM Ws district 31 also is accused in the complaint of violating violat-ing the Taft-Hartley labor act at the four mines by conducting mass picketing and beating up nonunion workers, in seeking to compel them to cease work and Join the union. |