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tne socat from functioning as aj labor union unless It complied, isf "Inconsistent with the Iederallyj! protegied process of coliective bar gainirg." Spstlfically, the Court did not ob- ject to the regulation that local Junions fle reports, but rather to the sanction imposed. Two Alabama cases, fled by the jAFL and CIO, were dismizsed by |the court in opinions read by Chief Justice Stone. The Alabama (Brad- ford) Act does not provide any pen- alty that would prohibit s union or a union omcial from functioning as such in event of non-compliance.! It simply provides criminal penal tles, and the unioms did not chaj- lenge the right of the state ip refulate labor unions. Jine Supreme Court akso amrmed,: 8 to`1, 4 lower court decision that a National Labor Relatlons Board certincation of a union as bargain- ing agent may not be reviewed by Federal court. The ruling was made in a tom. plaint fled by fve AFL locai taw- mil unions over an NLRB order certllying rival CIO untons as the bargaining agent for the employes Jof five lumber plants at Potlatch Forests, Inc., Lewiston, Idaho. The high court meanwhile lowed the back overtime wage caims of maintenance employes in one New Yorr City omce bullding, but rejected the claims of those in another building.d Th) court, in a 7 to 3 yerdict, Lowej] claims by employes of' + Borgen Buiiding (350 Madtson Ayt.) on grounds housed central omces of plants en- raged in Interstate Commercea other cities.d