The Wadsworth Watch Case Co.

In the Matter.of-THE WADSWORTH,WATCH CASE COMPANY; and INTER- NATIONAL ASSN. of MACHINISTS, DIs!rmoT $k'34 Case No. R-1695 CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES April 17, 1940 On March 11, 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 March 29, 1940, under the direction and supervision of the 'Regional Director, for the Ninth Region (Cincinnati, Ohio). On April 3, 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 hereto an Election Report. 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 : Number of alleged eligible voters___________________________ 3,52 Number of ballots placed in ballot box _____________________ 339 Number of unchallenged ballots for The Wadsworth Watch Case Company Workers Alliance_________________________ 173 Number of unchallenged ballots for International Association of Machinists, District #34 (A. F. of L.) ----------------- 119 Number of unchallenged ballots for Neither________________ 12 Number of challenged ballots______________________________ 34 Number of blank ballots___________________________________ 1 Number of spoiled ballots --------------------------------- 0 The Regional Director made no recommendations on the challenged ballots, since they could not affect the result of the election. 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, 121N L.R.B 476. 22 N L. R B, No. 79. 1010 THE WADSWORTH WATCH CASE COMPANY 1011 IT IS HEREBY C RTiFIED that The Wadsworth Watch Case Company Workers Alliance has been designated and selected by a majority of all employees of The Wadsworth Watch Case Company, exclusive of officers of the Company, persons having the right to employ or dis- charge'-employees; those holding, purely supervisory positions, -those engaged in the Time Study Department, those engaged in the Cost Department, those engaged in clerical work in the general offices of the Company (except those engaged in clerical work in production departments of the Company), and all employees engaged in metal polishing, buffing, plating and the processes related thereto, as their representative for the purposes of collective bargaining and that, pursuant to Section 9 (a) of the National Labor Relations Act, The Wadsworth Watch Case Company Workers Alliance 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.