Woodside Cotton Mills Co.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Jul 26, 1938

8 N.L.R.B. 619 (N.L.R.B. 1938)

In the Matter Of WOODSIDE COTTON MILLS COMPANY and TEXTILE
WORKERS ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Case No. R-709
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
July 06, 1938
On June 16, 1938, the National Labor Relations Board, herein called
the Board, issued a Direction of Election 1 in the above-entitled
case, directing that an election by secret ballot be conducted among
the production and maintenance employees of Woodside Cotton Mills
Company, at its Greenville Plant, Greenville, South Carolina, ex-
cluding clerical and supervisory employees and watchmen, to de-
termine whether or not they desire to be represented by Textile
Workers Organizing Committee for the purpose of collective
bargaining.
Pursuant to the Direction, an election by secret ballot was conducted
on June 27, 1938, at Greenville, South Carolina, under the direction
and supervision of the Regional Director for the Tenth Region (At-
lanta, Georgia). Full opportunity was accorded to all the parties
to this investigation to participate in the conduct of the secret ballot
and to make challenges. On July 1, 1938, the Regional Director,
acting pursuant to Article III, Section 9, of National Labor Rela-
tions Board Rules and Regulations-Series 1, as amended, issued and
duly served upon the parties an Intermediate Report upon the secret
ballot. No 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---------------------------------------- 958
Total ballots cast------------------------------------------- 903
Total number of blank ballots-------------------------------- 1
Total number of void ballots--------------------------------- 13
Total number of challenged ballots---------------------------
Total number of ballots cast for the Textile Workers Organizing
13
Committee ( affiliated with C. I. O.)------------------------ 507
Total number of ballots cast against the Textile Workers Organ-
izing Committee ( affiliated with C. I. 0.) ----------_------_- 369
17 N. L. R B. 960.
8 N. L. R. B., No. 65.
619
620 NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS ]BOARD
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 1,
as amended,
IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that Textile Workers Organizing Committee
has been designated and selected by a majority of the production
and maintenance employees of Woodside Cotton Mills Company, at
its Greenville Plant, Greenville , South Carolina , excluding clerical
and supervisory employees and watchmen , as their representative
for the purposes of collective bargaining and that, pursuant to Sec-
tion 9 (a) of the National 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.