SMITH'S REVIEW. LEGAL GEM SERIES. LABOR LAW. FOR LAW SCHOOL AND BAR EXAMINATIONS.

By Myron G. Hill Jr., Howard M. Rossen, andWilton S. Sogg '56. St. Paul (Minn.): WestPublishing Company, 1971. 194 pp. $5.

Offering a lucid outline of labor law, this compact volume will be valuable to general readers as well as to law students and lawyers who do not specialize in the subject.

It opens with 13 pages of introduction, analysis, and terminology, all keyed to later sections of the book. Placed in perspective are the roles of federal statutes and the decisions of the National Labor Relations Board as reviewed by the federal courts of appeals and the United States Supreme Court. A chart organizes the kinds of cases heard by the Board. The different kinds of unfair labor practices are therein noted together with references in each instance to the governing section of the Act, to the pages of the book at which the matter is discussed, and, at appropriate points, to digests of leading cases. Sixty-one such digests are seeded throughout the book. Highly readable, they state the facts simply, ask the principal question, and then go on with the Court's answer and an explanation of the rule.

Another introductory chart identifies, with a key to the statute, the six types of petitions which may be filed with the Board, whether by unions, employers, or individual employees, in representation matters.

A separate chapter on representation appears at the end of the book. It describes election procedures before the Board and discusses related problems such as the Board's determination of what is an appropriate bargaining unit, judicial review, and reasons for setting aside an election.

The introductory material is followed by an historical sketch of a development away from the treatment of labor organization as a criminal conspiracy to the present statutory regulations, the Wagner Act, the Taft-Hartley, and Landrum-Griffin Acts.

Following chapters discuss the Board's procedure; employer unfair labor practices; the obligation to bargain in good faith; the collective bargaining agreement, including the arbitration clause; union unfair labor practices; picketing and boycotts; and other rights of employees, including rights with respect to the union. A table of cases and an index complete the volume, a handy direction finder in the field.

Mr. Rossen and Mr. Sogg are also authors of the 1970 Revised Edition of Agency andPartnership, and of the 1971 Revised Edition of Corporations, two more volumes in the Legal Gem Series.

Mr. Sylvester, a graduate of Columbia LawSchool, is Assistant Attorney General of theState of New York.