Diamond Coal Co.

In the- Matter of DIAMOND COAL COMPANY and UNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA DISTRICT #23 Case No. B-1859 CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES July 25, 1940 On June 12, 1940, the National Labor Relations Board, herein called the Board, issued a Decision and Direction of Election in the above-entitled proceeding.' Pursuant to the Direction of Election, an election by secret ballot was conducted on July 6, 1940, under the direction and supervision of the Regional Director for the Eleventh Region (Indianapolis, Indiana). On July 10, 1940, 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 on 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 : Total number of employees alleged eligible to vote------------ 337 Total number voted---------------------------------------- 325 Total number of valid votes cast---------------------------- Total number of votes for the United Mine Workers of 322 America, District No. 23, affiliated with the CIO ------------ 174 Total number of votes for the Progressive Mine Workers of America, District No. 5, affiliated with the AFL------------ 41 Total number of votes for neither organization--------------- 107 Total number of blank ballots------------------------------ 0 Total number of void ballots-------------------------------- 1 Total number of challenged ballots-------------------------- 2 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 Mine Workers of America, Dis- trict #23, affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations, 1 24 N L R B 611 25 N. L. R. B, No. 95. 857 858 DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD has been designated and selected by a majority of the production em- ployees in Mine 1 and Mine 2 of Diamond Coal Company, Provi- dence, Kentucky, excluding superintendents, mine foremen. section foremen, room bosses, face bosses, top bosses, entry bosses, electri- cians in a supervisory capacity, all other supervisory employees, guards, and watchmen, as their representative for the purposes of collective bargaining, and that, pursuant to Section 9 (a) of the Act, United Mine Workers of America, District #23, affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations, is the exclusive repre- sentative of all such employees for the purposes of collective bargain- ing in respect to rates of pay, wages, hours of employment, and other conditions of employment. MR. WILLIAM M. LEISERSON took no part in the consideration of the above Certification of Representatives.