Howard Arthur Mills

In the Matter Of HOWARD ARTHUR MILLS and TEXTILE WORKERS UNION OF AMERICA (CIO) In the Matter of LUTHER MANUFACTURING COMPANY and TEXTILE WORKERS.UNION OF AMERICA (CIO) In the Matter Of PEPPERELL MANUFACTURING COMPANY and TEXTILE WORKERS UNION OF AMERICA (CIO) In the Matter of\ BOURNE MILLS and TEXTILE WORKERS UNION OF AMERICA (CIO) Cases Nos. R-41004 to R-4007, inclusive, respectively CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES August W, 1942 On July 15, 1942; the National Labor Relations ,Board issued a Decision and Direction of 'E] ections in the above-entitled proceed- ing.' , On July 28, 1942, the Board issued an Amendment to Direction of Elections.2 Pursuant to the Direction of Elections, as amended, elections by secret ballot were conducted on August 11, 1942, under ,the direction and supervision of the .Regional Director for the First Region (Boston, Massachusetts). On August 13, 1942, the Regional Director, acting pursuant to Article III, Section 9, of National Labor Relations Board Rules and Regulations-Series 2, as amended,-issued and duly served upon the parties an Election Report upon the ballot. No objections to the conduct of the ballot or the Election Report have been filed by any of the parties. As to the balloting and its results, the Regional Director reported as follows : Howard Arthur Mills Total on eligibility list_______________ ----- ------------- 560` Total ballots cast______________________________________ 457 Total ballots,challenged -------------------------------- - 111, Total blank ballots -------- ----------------------------- 1 Total void ballots----! -------------------------------- 0. Total valid votes counted_______________________________ 455 'Votes, cast for United Textile Workers of America (AFL)__ - 160 ,,Votes:cast for Textile Workers'Union of -America (CIO)__ 292 Votes cast for neither ---------- ----- --------------------- - 3 142N L.R.B 518 2 42 N. L. it. B. 524. 43 N. L. R. B., No. 107. 692 HOWARD ARTHUR MILLS 693 Luther Manufacturing Company. Total on eligibility list ------ _____-___________. __________ 431 Total ballots cast____________________________________ , 352 Total ballots challenged________________________________ 10 Total blank ballots_______________________ -------------- 0 Total void ballots____________ r ------------------------ 1 Total valid, votes counted_______________________________ 351, Votes, cast" foi United Textile Workers of, America' ('AFL) -185. ,. Votes cast for Textile Workers Union of America (CIO) 165 Votes cast for neither__________________________________ 1 Pepperell Manufacturing Company Total on eligibility list_________________________________ 869 Total ballots cast______________________________________ 654 Total ballots challenged_____________ ____________ 0 Total blank ballots_________________ ------------------------------------ 0 Total void ballots '_________________________ ______ 3 Total valid vote's counted_____________________________ 651 Votes cast for United Textile Workers of America (AFL) - _ 346 Votes cast for Textile Workers Union of America (CIO) 300 Votes cast for neither_______________ 5 Bourne Mills Total on eligibility list_______________,__________________ 972 Total ballots cast -------------------------------------- 810 Total ballots challenged __________________ -------------------------------- 3 Total blank ballots ____________________________________ '0 Total void ballots ------------------------------------- - 2 Total valid votes counted_______________________________ 805 Votes cast for United Textile Workers of America (AFL)__ 314 Votes cast for. Textile Workers Union of America (CIO)-- 483 Votes cast for neither _________________________'_________ 8 By virtue of and pursuant to the power vested in the, National Labor Relations Board by Section 9 (c) of the National Labor Re- lations 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 Textile Workers Union of America,' affiliated with the Congress` of Industrial Organizations, has been designated and selected by a majority of all production and mainte- nance employees of Howard Arthur Mills, Fall River, Massachu- setts, excluding executive, supervisory, office, and clerical employees, as their representative for the purposes of collective bargaining, and that, pursuant to Section 9 (a) of the Act, Textile Workers Union of America, affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations, is the exclusive representative of all such employees for the ,purposes of collective bargaining in respect to rates of pay, wages, hours of employment, and, other conditions of employment. 694 DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that United Textile Workers of America, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, has been designated and selected by a majority of all production and maintenance em- ployees of Luther Manufacturing Company, Fall River, , Massachu- setts, excluding executive, supervisory , office, and clerical , employees, as their representative for the purposes of collective bargaining, and that, pursuant to Section 9 (a) of the Act, United Textile Workers of America, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, is the exclusive representative of all such employees for the purposes of collective bargaining in respect to rates of pay, wages , hours of em- ployment, and other conditions of employment. IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that United Textile Workers of America,' affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, has been designated and selected by a majority of all production and maintenance employ- ees of Pepperell Manufacturing Company, Fall River, Massachusetts, 'excluding executive , supervisory, office, and clerical employees, as their representative for the purposes of collective bargaining, and that, pursuant to Section 9 (a) of the Act, United Textile Workers of America, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, is the exclusive representative of all such employees for the purposes of collective bargaining in respect to rates of pay, wages, hours of employment, and other conditions of employment. , IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that Textile Workers Union of America, affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations, has been designated and selected by a majority of all production and mainte- nance employees of Bourne Mills, Fall River , Massachusetts, exclud- ing executive , supervisory, office, and clerical employees , as their representative for the purposes of collective bargaining , and that, pursuant to,Section 9 (a) of the Act, Textile Workers Union 'of America, affiliated with the Congress of.Industrial Organizations, is the exclusive representative of all such employees for the purposes of collective bargaining in respect to rates of pay, wages , hours of- employment, and other conditions of employment.