Interlake Iron Corp.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Feb 25, 1942

39 N.L.R.B. 221 (N.L.R.B. 1942)

In the Matter of INTERLAKE IRON CORPORATION and LOCAL UNION
1957 , STEEL WORKERS ORGANIZING COMM ITTEE, C. I. O.
Case No. R-3255
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 25, 19.2
On January 10 and 30, 1942, respectively, the National Labor
Relations Board issued its Decision and Direction of Election 1 and
Amendment to Direction of Election 2 in the above-entitled pro-
ceeding. Pursuant to the Direction of Election, as amended, an
election by secret ballot was conducted on February 3, 1942, under
the direction and supervision of the Regional Director for the Thir-
teenth Region (Chicago, Illinois). On February 4, 1942, the Regional
Director, acting pursuant to Article III, Section 9, of National Labor
Relations Board Rules and Regulations-Series 2, as amended, issued
his Election Report, copies of which were duly served upon the
parties.' No objections to the conduct of the ballot or to 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 on eligibility list__________________________________ 799
Total number of ballots cast____________________________ 726
Total number of ballots challenged________________________ ' 19
Total number of blank ballots_____________________________ 1
Total number of void ballots_____________________________ .01
Total number of ballots cast for C. I 0. Union ------------- 429
Total number of ballots cast for Independent Union_________ 263
Ballots cast for neither__ _______________________ 14
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 Local Union 1657, Steel Workers
Organizing Committee, affiliated with the Congress of Industrial
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Organizations, has been designated and selected by a majority of all
employees paid on an hourly rate and, heaters paid on a monthly
rate, employed at the Chicago plant of Interlake Iron Corporation,
Chicago, Illinois, including laboratory samplers, but excluding super-
visory employees, cafeteria managers,' patrolmen and watchmen,
office employees, gate and first-aid men, _bus operators, chemists,
monthly paid yard clerks, and weighmasters, and the blueprint boy,
as their representative for the purposes of collective bargaining, and
that pursuant to the provisions of Section 9 (a) -of the Act, Local
Union 1657, Steel Workers Organizing Committee, affiliated with
the Congress of Industrial Organizations, is the exclusive repre-
sentative of all such-employees for the purposes of collective bargain-
ing with respect to rates of pay, wages, hours of employment, and
other conditions of employment.