Cuban Cigar Co.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Feb 6, 1942

38 N.L.R.B. 982 (N.L.R.B. 1942)

In the-Matter of CUBAN CIGAR COMPANY and CIGAR MAKERS INTER-
NATIONAL UNION, ArFIraATED WITH THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF
LABOR
'Case No.•R-3272
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 6, 1942
On December 22, 1941, the National Labor Relations Board issued
its Decision and Direction of Election in the above-entitled pro-
ceeding.' Pursuant to the Direction of Election, an election by secret
ballot was conducted on January 20, 1942, under the direction and
supervision of the Regional Director for the Seventeenth Region
(Kansas City, Missouri). On January 23, 1942, the Regional Direc-
tor, acting pursuant to Article III, Section 9, of National Labor
Relations Board Rules and Regulations-Series 2, as amended, issued
and duly served upon the parties his Election Report. No objections
to the conduct of the ballot or the Election Report have been filed by
any of the parties.
As to the balloting and the results thereof, the Regional Director
reported as follows :
Total on eligibility list_ _____________________________________ 144
Total ballots cast__________________________________________ 138
Total ballots challenged_____________________________________ 1
Total blank ballots__________________________________________ 0
Total void ballots___________________________________________ 0
Total valid votes counted___________________________________ 137
Votes cast for Cigar Makers International Union, Local 24, affili-
ated with A F. of L_______________________________________ 51
Votes cast for Tobacco Workers Association of Joplin, Mo_____ 82
Votes cast for neither of the two labor organizations---------- 4
By virtue of and pursuant to the power vested in the National La-
bor 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 2,
as amended,
1 37 N. L. R. B 833.
38 N. L. R. B., No. 180.
982
CUBAN CIGAR COMPANY 983
IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that Tobacco Workers Association of Joplin,
Missouri, has been designated and selected by a majority of all em-
ployees of Cuban Cigar Company, Joplin, Missouri, excluding office
personnel, watchmen, salesmen, employees having authority to hire
and discharge, Samuel J. Herman, Abe Kippur, Harry Lemmerhart,
Billy Noel, Harry Hudson, Arthur Nichols, Iva Atkins, Roxy Hag-
gart, Ruth Harmon, Ernie Wilcoxen, and Mabel Shouse as their rep-
resentative for the purposes of collective bargaining, and that, pur-
suant to the provisions of Section 9 (a) of the National Labor Rela-
tions Act, Tobacco Workers Association of Joplin, Missouri, is the
exclusive representative of all such employees for the purposes of col-
lective bargaining with respect to rates of pay, wages, hours of employ-
ment, and other conditions of employment.