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> Ruled that U.S. labor laws do not apply to foreign-flag ships even when they are controlled by U.S. corporations. At the request of the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s National Maritime Union, the National Labor Relations Board had ordered a representation election among the crewmen of ships flying the flag of Honduras and manned by Hondurans, but under the control of Boston's United Fruit Co. Said the majority opinion, written by Justice Clark: the NLRB order violated "the well-established rule of international law that the law of the flag state ordinarily governs the internal affairs of a ship."