Relations Board (Board) to grant it, as a charging employer, an evidentiary hearing on its objections to an informal settlement agreement executed between the Regional Director and Leeds & Northrup Employees' Union (Union), under which agreement a complaint of unfair labor practices, initiated by the Company and issued by the Regional Director, was later withdrawn.


3
The controversy arises out of a plant strike by the Union between November 28th and December 13th, 1962.


4
The Company, with plants located at Philadelphia and North Wales and a sales office at Fort Washington, all in Pennsylvania, engages in the manufacture and sale of industrial and laboratory type electronic instruments, control systems, heat treatment furnaces, and heat measuring devices. The Union is the collective bargaining representative for certain of Company's employees and it authorizedunion trials; by the application of dues on account of fines to be imposed, as contrasted to the waiver of dues for strikers; and by the subsequent imposition of fines in amounts equal to such wages as were earned during the strike.


6
An investigation of the Company's charges was conducted by the Regional Director of the Fourth Region, pursuant to which he concluded on behalf of the Board's General Counsel that a complaint should issue. On May 31, 1963, a complaint was filed against the Union alleging unfair labor practices affecting commerce within the meaning of Section 8 (b) (1) (A) of the Act. A hearing before a trial examiner was set for July 22, 1963, and later rescheduled for September 30, 1963. However, on September 24, 1963, the