Blake, Moffitt & Towne

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Feb 15, 1938

5 N.L.R.B. 306 (N.L.R.B. 1938)

In the Matter of BLAKE, MOFFITT & TOWNE and INTERNATIONAL
LONGSHOREMEN'S AND 1VAREHOUSEMEN'S UNION NO. 134
Case No. R-423
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 15, 1938
On January 17, 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 elec-
tion by secret ballot be conducted among the warehouse employees of
Blake, Moffitt & Towne employed at its Los Angeles, California,
plant.
Pursuant to this Decision and Direction of Election, an election
by secret ballot has been conducted under the direction and supervi-
sion of Towne Nylander, the Regional Director for the Twenty-first
Region (Los Angeles, California) on January 31, 1938. Thereafter
the said 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 Intermedi-
ate Report have been filed by any of the parties.
As to the balloting and its results the Regional Director reported as
follows :
Total number of ballots cast____________________________________ 54
Total number of votes for International Longshoremen's and Ware-
housemen's Union, Local 1-26, C I O__________________________ 19
Total number of votes for General Warehousemen's Local Union,
chartered by Brotherhood of Teamsters, A. F. of L_____________ 29
Total number of votes for neither of above unions______________ 6
Total number of blank ballots_________________________________ 0
Total number of void ballots____________________________________ 0
Total number of challenged ballots______________________________ 0
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,
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DECISIONS AND ORDERS • 307
IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that General Warehousemen's Local Union,
chartered by Brotherhood of Teamsters, affiliated with the American
Federation of Labor, has been selected by a majority of the ware-
house employees of Blake, Moffitt & Towne at its Los Angeles, Cali-
fornia, plant as their representative for the purposes of collective
bargaining and that pursuant to Section 9 (a) of the Act, General
Warehousemen's Local Union, chartered by Brotherhood of Team-
sters, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, is the exclu-
sive 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.