Crucible Steel Co. of America

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Apr 16, 1936

1 N.L.R.B. 545 (N.L.R.B. 1936)

In the Matter Of CRUCIBLE STEEL COMPANY OF AMERICA and STRIP
STEEL AND WIRE WORKERS UNION, LOCAL No. 20084, A. F. OF L.
Case No. R-25
Iron and Steel Industry-Unit Appropriate for Collective Bargaining : produc
tion employees ; plant-Election Ordered.
DIRECTION FOR ELECTION
April 16, 1936
The National Labor Relations Board, having found that a question
affecting commerce has arisen concerning the representation of the
employees in the production department of the Spaulding and Jen-
nings Works of the Crucible Steel Corporation, Jersey City, New
Jersey, and that said employees constitute a unit appropriate for the
purposes of collective bargaining, as hereinafter set forth, within the
meaning of Section 9 (b) of the National Labor Relations Act, and
acting pursuant to the power vested in the National Labor Relations
Board by Section 9(c) of said Act, and pursuant to Article III,
Section 8 of National Labor Relations Board Rules and Regula-
tions-Series 1, hereby
DIRECTS that as part of the investigation authorized by the
Board to ascertain representatives for the purposes of collective bar-
gaining with the Crucible Steel Corporation, an election by secret
ballot shall be conducted within a period of ten days after the pro-
.duction by the Crucible Steel Corporation of a list of its employees
in accordance with the subpena issued by the Board on April 16,
1936, under the direction and supervision of the Regional Director
for the Second Region, acting in this matter as the agent of the
National Labor Relations Board and subject to Article III, Section 9
of said Rules and Regulations-Series 1, among those production
employees of the Spaulding and Jennings Works, who were em-
ployees on the date of this Direction For Election, including those
laid off allegedly because of the slackness of work, among them being
Alva Kocher and John Lutz, excepting clerical and supervisory
workers, power-house men, engineers, firemen, watchmen, gas pro-
ducers, and all maintenance workers; to determine whether or not
they desire to be represented by the Spaulding and Jennings Works
Council or the Strip Steel and Wire Workers Union, Local No. 20084,
of the American Federation of Labor.
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