Marshall Field Blanket Mill

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Mar 22, 1938

6 N.L.R.B. 106 (N.L.R.B. 1938)

In the Matter Of MARSHALL FIELD BLANKET MILL and TEXTILE
WORKERS ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Case No. R-533
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
March 02, 1938
On February 18, 1938, the National Labor Relations Board, herein
called the Board, issued a Decision and Direction of Election in the
above-entitled case.,. The Direction of Election directed that an
election by secret ballot be conducted among all employees of Mar-
shall Field R Company who were on the pay roll of the Company
at its Marshall Field Blanket Mill, Draper, North Carolina, during
the pay-roll period next preceding the filing of the petition, exclu-
sive of clerical, sales, and supervisory employees and except those who
have quit or have been discharged for cause between that period and
the date of the election, to determine whether or not they desire to
be represented by Textile Workers Organizing Committee, for the
purposes of collective bargaining.
Pursuant to the Direction, an election by secret ballot was con-
ducted on March 1, 1938, under the direction and supervision of the
Regional Director for the Fifth Region (Baltimore, Maryland).
Thereafter, on March 7, 1938, the Regional Director, acting pursuant
to Article III, Section 9, of National Labor Relations Board Rules
and Regulations-Series 1, as amended, issued and duly served upon
the parties an Intermediate Report on the election. No objections
or exceptions to the Intermediate 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------------------------------ 982
Total Number of Ballots Cast------------------------------ 893
Total Number of Ballots Cast for Textile Workers Organizing
Committee------------------------------------------------ 506
Total Number of Ballots Cast against Textile Workers Or-
ganizing Committee ---------------------------------------- 372
Total Number of Blank Ballots----------------------------- 1
Total Number of Void Ballots------------------------------ 2
Total Number of Challenged Votes-------------------------- 12
1 5 N. L It. B. 393.
106
DECISIONS AND ORDERS 107
By virtue of and pursuant to the, power vested in the National
Labor Relations Board by Section 9 (c) of the National Labor Re-
lations Act, 49 Stat . 449, and pursuant to Article III, Section 8, of
National Labor Relations Board Rules and Regulations-Series 1,
as amended,
IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that Textile Workers Organizing Committee
has been designated and selected by a majority of all employees of
Marshall Field & Company at its Marshall Field Blanket Mill, Dra-
per, North Carolina , excluding clerical , sales, and supervisory em-
ployees , as their representative for the purposes of collective bargain-
ing and that , pursuant to the provisions of Section 9 (a) of the Na-
tional Labor Relations Act, Textile Workers Organizing Committee
is the exclusive representative of all such employees for the purposes
of collective bargaining in respect to rates of pay, wages , hours of
employment, and other conditions of employment.