Lonsdal Co.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Nov 16, 1940

28 N.L.R.B. 1 (N.L.R.B. 1940)

DECISIONS AND ORDERS OF THE NATIONAL LABOR
RELATIONS BOARD
In the Matter of LONSDALE COMPANY (RE LINCOLN BLEACHERY & DYE
WORKS DIVISION) and LINCOLN MUTUAL BENEFIT ASSOCIATION
Case No. R-004'
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
November 16, 1940
On October 17, i940, the National Labor Relations Board, herein
called the Board, issued a Decision and Direction of Election in tho'
above-entitled proceedings.' Pursuant to the Direction of Election,
an election by secret ballot was conducted on October 31, 1940, under
the direction and supervision of the Regional Director for the First
Region (Boston, Massachusetts). On November 1, 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 on the ballot.
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 eligible to vote-------------------------------- 207
Total number of votes cast--------------------------------- 192
Total number of valid votes cast----------------------------- 186
Total number, of ballots marked for Lincoln Mutual Benefit
Association --------------- L ------------------------------ 83
Total number of ballots marked for Federation of Dyers, Print-
ers, Finishers & Bleachers of America (C. I 0.) ------------ 98'
Total number of ballots marked "Neither"-------------------- 5
Total number of void ballots--------------------------------- 1
Total number of challenged ballots--------------------------- 5
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 Federation of Dyers, Printers, Finishers
& Bleachers of America, affiliated with the Congress of Industrial
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Organizations, has been designated and selected by a majority of all
employees at the Lincoln Bleachery & Dye Works Division of Lons-
dale Company, Lonsdale, Rhode Island, including employees in the
bin-stock, box-shop, and shipping departments, truckers, elevator men,
laboratory employees, and yardmen, but excluding -supervisory and
clerical employees, watchmen, truck drivers, electricians, carpenters,
pipers, helpers, employees in the power plant, and employees in the
machine shop, as their representative for the purposes of collective
bargaining, and that, pursuant to Section 9 (a) of the Act, Federation
of Dyers, Printers, Finishers & Bleachers'of America, affiliated with
the Congress of Industrial Organizations, is the exclusive representa-
tive of all such employees for the purposes of collective bargaining in
respect to rates of pay, wages, hours of employment, and -other con-
ditions of employment.