Cudahy Packing Co.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Oct 28, 1937

3 N.L.R.B. 936 (N.L.R.B. 1937)

In the Matter of CUDAHY PACKING COMPANY and PACKING HOUSE
WORKERS UNION LOCAL No. 5, ANIALGAMATED MEAT CUTTERS AND
BUTCHER WORKMEN OF NORTH AMERICA
Case No. R-318
Mr. Charles A. Graham, for the Board.
Milton, McNulty cC Augelli, by Mr. Thomas McNulty, of Jersey
City, N. J., and Mr. Thomas Creegh, of Chicago, Ill., for Cudahy
Packing Company.
Mr. Louis Waldman, by Mr. David I. Ash,e, of New York City,
for Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North
America.
Mr. James S. Brown, of Hoboken, N. J., for Independent Pack-
ing House Workers Union of Jersey City.
Mr. Rawlings Ragland, of counsel to the Board.
DIRECTION OF ELECTION
October 28, 1937
The National Labor Relations Board, having found that a ques-
tion affecting commerce has ,.risen concerning the representation
of employees of the Cudahy Packing Company, at its Jersey City,
New Jersey, plant, and that all employees of Cudahy Packing Com-
pany at its Jersey City, New Jersey, plant, excluding mechanical
employees, teamsters, clerical, and supervisory employees, constitute
a unit appropriate for the purposes of collective bargaining, within
the meaning of Section 9 (b) of the National Labor Relations Act,
49 Stat. 449, and acting pursuant to the power vested in it by Sec-
tion 9 (c) of said Act, and pursuant to Article III, Section 8, of
National Labor Relations Board Rules and Regulations-Series 1,
as amended, hereby
DIRECTS that, as part of its investigation to ascertain representa-
tives for the purposes of collective bargaining with the Cudahy
Packing Company, an election by secret ballot shall be conducted
within a period of ten (10) days after the date of this Direction
of Election, 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, among all the employees
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of Cudahy Packing Company at its Jersey City, New Jersey, plant
who were on its pay roll as of July 27, 1937, excluding mechanical
employees, teamsters, clerical and supervisory employees, and ex-
cluding those employees who since have quit or have been discharged
for cause, to determine whether they desire to be represented by
Packing House Workers Union Local No. 5, Amalgamated Meat
Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America, or Independent
Packing House Workers Union of Jersey City, for the purposes of
collective bargaining, or by neither.