The Paraffine Companies, Inc.

In the Matter of THE PAR AFFINE COMPANIES, INC. and INTERNATIONAL LONGSHOREMEN'S AND WAREHOUSEMEN'S UNION, LOCAL 1-6 Case No. B-1921 CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES September 10, 1940 On July 22, 1940, the National Labor Relations Board, herein called the Board, issued its Decision and Direction of Elections 1 and on August 5, 1940, its Amendment to Direction of Elections in the above-entitled proceeding.2 Pursuant to the Direction of Elections, as amended, an election by secret ballot was conducted on August 8, 1940, under the direction and supervision of the Regional Director for the Twentieth Region (San Francisco, California). On August 12, 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. 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 eligible voters------------------------------- 214 Number of votes for International Longshoremen's Union, Local 1-6,,C. I 0----------------------------------------------- 169 Number of votes for International Brotherhood of Paper Makers, Bay Bridge Local 334, A. F. of L------------------- -------- 38 Number of votes for neither--------------------------------- 0 Total number of votes counted------------------------------- 207 There were no blank, void or challenged ballots. By virtue of and pursuant to the power vested in the National Labor Relations Board by Section 9 (c) of the National Labor Relations 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 International Longshoremen's and Ware- housemen's Union, Local 1-6, has been designated and selected by a, majority of the production employees of Paraffine Companies, Inc., 1 25 N. L R . B. 752. 226 N. L. R. B 132. 27 N. L. R. B., No. 43 197 198 DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD in the Felt Mill and Roofing. Department, including the slate depart- ment, machine operations, wrapping, capping, sample, and tape-room -work in the roofing department, and including the machine room, felt storage, re-winding, and rag- and beater-room work in the felt mill, and such maintenance employees whose duties are confined-exclusively to the felt mill, but excluding maintenance employees who work in departments other that the felt mill, and clerical and actual super- visory employees with the rank of supervisory foreman or above, as their representative for the purposes of collective bargaining, and that, pursuant to Section 9 (a) of the National Labor Relations Act, Inter- national Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, Local 1-6, is the exclusive representative of all such employees for the purposes of collective bargaining with respect to rates of pay, wages, hours of em- ployment, and other conditions of employment.