30, 1959.  In May of 1959, before its expiration, a group of employees who had not joined the Union formed an anti-union committee to procure signatures for a petition for decertification of the Union as collective bargaining representative.  The committee employed counsel who assisted them in drafting anti-union circulars and a decertification petition.  These circulars, which the committee distributed to all employees in June 1959, advised the employees that they could resign from the Union when the collective bargaining contract terminated on June 30.  Between June 12 and 27, the committee received seventeen resignations from the Union which were turned over to the committee's counsel.  On Jule 29, the counsel had a deputy sheriff deliver a copy of each of these resignations tothe Union and to the Company.


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Upon the expiration of the contract on June 30, 1959, the Union commenced a strike which lasted some six months and was not settled until the following January.  During the entire period of the strike the Company continued operations with non-union employees and new employees.  During this period the antiunion committee also remained active seeking union members to drop their membership and return to work.  A committee circular advised employees that if they returned to work during the strike without resigning from the Union they would be liable to Union charges.  While the strike was thus in progress, nineteen employees signed resignations which were turned over to the committee; the latter, in turn, mailed one copy to the Union