In Associated Grocers a striking employee made an obscene gesture to and hurled crude epithets at a supervising employee and strike-breaking accomplices.
Holding that "[t]he fact of discharge . . . does not depend on the use of formal words of firing. It is sufficient if the words or actions of the employer 'would logically lead a prudent person to believe his tenure had been terminated.'"
In National Labor Relations Board v. Anchor Rome Mills, supra, 228 F.2d 775, the Board had found a discriminatory failure to reemploy 35 former strikers.
Noting that, although it is true that when property on land exposed to grave peril is saved by a volunteer, no remuneration is given, "[l]et precisely the same service, at precisely the same hazard, [b]e rendered at sea, and a very ample reward will be bestowed in the courts of justice"