Continental Mills

In the Matter Of CONTINENTAL MILLS and TEXTILE WORKERS UNION OF AMERICA (C. I. 0.) Case No. R4310 CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES - April 18, 1941 On March 6, 1941, the National Labor Relations Board issued its Decision and Direction of Election in the above-entitled proceeding.' Pursuant to the Direction of Election, an election by secret ballot was conducted on April 1, 1941, under the direction and supervision of the Regional Director for the First Region (Boston, Massachusetts). On April 3, 1941, the Regional Director acting pursuant to Article III, Section 9, of National Labor Relations Board Rules and Regulations- Series 2, as amended, issued an Election Report, copies of-which were .duly served upon the parties. - No objections to the conduct of the -ballot or the Election Report were filed by any of the parties. As to the balloting and the results thereof, the Regional Director reported as follows : - Total number eligible to vote_______________________________ 991 Total number of votes cast_________________________________ 886 Total number of valid votes cast____________________________ 879 Total number of votes for Textile Workers Union of America, affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations----- 605 Total number of votes against Textile Workers Union of Amer- ica, affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations- 274 Total number of blank ballots______________________________ 5 Total number of void ballots_______________________________ 0 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 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 Textile Workers Union of America, affil- iated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations, has been desig- nated and selected by a majority of all production and maintenance 130 N. L. R. B. 82. 31 N. L. R. B., No. 14. 57 58 DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD employees of Continental Mills, Lewiston, Maine, including watchmen, but excluding supervisory, laboratory, office, and clerical employees, 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, 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 with respect to rates of pay, wages, hours of employment, and other con- ditions of employment.