La Crosse Garment Industries

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Nov 20, 1937

4 N.L.R.B. 190 (N.L.R.B. 1937)

In the Matter of LA CROSSE GARMENT INDUSTRIES and FEDERAL LABOR
UNION No. 21186
Case No. R-388
Mr. Laurence Hunt, for the Board.
Mr. Walter Baeder and Mr. John Thayer, of La Crosse, Wis., for
the Company.
Mr. Jesse E. Higbie, of La Crosse, Wis., for Federal Labor Union
No. 21186.
Mr. Max Geline, of Milwaukee, Wis., for International Ladies'
Garment Workers' Union, Local No. 314.
Mr. Henry H. Foster, Jr., of counsel to the Board.
DIRECTION OF ELECTION
November 20, 1937
The National Labor Relations Board, having found upon examina-
tion of the record in the above matter that a question affecting com-
merce has arisen concerning the representation of employees of La
Crosse Garment Industries, La Crosse, Wisconsin, and that the pro-
duction employees exclusive of maintenance, office, and clerical work-
ers and all employees in administrative and supervisory positions,
including fore]adies and instructors, constitute a unit appropriate
for the purposes of collective bargaining within the meaning of
Section 9 (b) of the National Labor Relations Act, 49 Stat. 449, and
acting pursuant to the power vested in it by Section 9 (c) of said
Act, and pursuant to Article III, Section 8, of National Labor Re-
lations Board Rules and Regulations-Series 1, as amended, hereby
DIRECTS that, as part of the investigation ordered to ascertain
representatives for the purposes of collective bargaining with La
Crosse Garment Industries, La Crosse, Wisconsin, an election by
secret ballot shall be conducted within a period of seven (7) days
from the date of this Direction of Election, under the direction and
supervision of the Regional Director for the Twelfth Region, acting
in this matter as the agent of the National Labor Relations Board
and subject to Article III, Section 9, of said Rules and Regulations,
among the production employees of La Crosse Garment Industries,
exclusive of maintenance, office and clerical workers and all em-
ployees in administrative and supervisory positions, including fore-
ladies and instructors, to determine whether or not they desire to
be represented by Federal Labor Union No. 21186 or International
Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, Local No. 314, for the purposes of
collective bargaining, or by neither.
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