Montgomery Ward & Co., Inc.

In the Mattel Of MONTGOMERY WARD & CO , INCORPORATED and UNITED RETAIL , WHOLESALE AND DEPARTMENT STORE EMPLOYEES OF AMER- ICA, LOCAL No 269 Case No. R-3692 CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES- July 8, 1942 On May 20, 1942, the National Labor Relations Boaid issued a Decision and Direction of Election in the above-entitled proceeding 1 Pursuant to the Direction of Election, an election by secret ballot was conducted on June 18, 1942, under the direction and supervision of the Regional Director for the Twenty-second Region (Denver, Colorado) On June 20, 1942, the Regional Diiector, acting pursuant to Article III, Section 9, of National Labor Relations Boaid Rules and Regulations-Series 2, as amended, duly issued and served upon the parties an Election Report No objections to the conduct of the ballot or to the Election Report have been filed by any of the parties As to the balloting and the results thereof, the Regional Director reported as follows - Total eligible to vote------------------------------------- 270 Total ballots cast________________________________________ 123 Total ballots challenged---------------------------------- 1 Total blank ballots--------------------------------------- 1 Total void ballots---------------------------------------- I Total laud votes counted--------------------------------- 120 Total votes cast for United Retail, Wholesale and Depait- nient Stoic, Employees of Ameiica, Local No 269 --------- 110 Total votes cast against United Retail, Wholesale and De- paitment Store Employees of Ameiica, Local No 269 ----- 10 By virtue of and pursuant to the power vested in the National Labor Relations Board by Section 9 (c) of the National Labor Rela- tions Act, 49 Stat 449, and pursuant to Article III, Sections 8 and 9, of National Labor Relations Board Rules and Regulations-Series 2, as amended, IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that United Retail, Wholesale and Depart- ment Store Employees of America, Local No 269, has been designated 1 41N L R B 122 42N L R B, No 45 472514-42-vol 42-14 209 210 DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD and selected by a majority of all employees of the retail stole and retail warehouse of Montgomery Ward & Co, Incorporated, Denver, Colorado, excluding the manager, operating manages, merchandising manager, group merchandisers, department heads, supervisors, tem- poraiy pait-time employees, personnel-depaitment employees, leased- department employees, and detectives, as their representative for the purposes of collective bargaining, and that, pursuant to the provisions of Section 9 (a) of the National Labor Relations Act, United Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Employees of America, Local No 269, is the exclusive representative of all such employees for the pur- poses of collective bargaining'with respect to rates of pay, wages, hours of employment, and other conditions of employment.