Marshall Field Sheeting Mill

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Mar 22, 1938

6 N.L.R.B. 108 (N.L.R.B. 1938)

In the Matter Of MARSHALL FIELD SHEETING MILL and TEXTILE
WORKERS ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Case No. R-534
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
March 22, 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 Marshall
Field & Company who were on the pay roll of the Company at its
Marshall Field & Company Sheeting Mill,2 Draper, North Carolina,
during the pay-roll period next preceding the filing of the petition; ex-
clusive 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 2, 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------------------------------- 553
Total Number of Ballots Cast------------------------------- 509
Total Number of Ballots Cast for Textile Workers Organizing
Committee ----------------------------------------------- 310
Total Number of Ballots Cast against Textile Workers Organ-
izing Committee------------------------------------------ 196
Total Number of Blank Ballots------------------------------ 1
Total Number of Void Ballots------------------------------- 2
Total Number of Challenged Votes-------------------------- 0
15 N L. R. B. 393.
2 Erroneously designated as Marshall Field Sheeting Mill in the Order of Consolidation
and Directing Investigation and Hearing.
108
DECISIONS AND ORDERS 109
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, Section 8, of
National Labor Relations Board Rules and Regulations-Series 1, as
amended,
IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that Textile Workers Organizing Commit-
tee has been designated and selected by a majority of all employees of
Marshall Field & Company at its Marshall Field & Company Sheet-
ing Mill, Draper, North Carolina, excluding clerical, sales, and super-
visory 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 Organizing Com-
mittee 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.