Dreamland Bedding & Upholstery Co.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Apr 19, 1940

22 N.L.R.B. 1120 (N.L.R.B. 1940)

In the Matter of DREAMLAND BEDDING & UPHOLSTERY Co., JOHN HOEY
COMPANY, PACIFIC FELT COMPANY, ROME CO., INC., RUTHERFORD &
HOOD, SAN FRANCISCO BEDDING COMPANY, SUNSET FEATHER COM-
PANY, WILSON & JANSEN and UNITED FURNITURE WORKERS OF
AMERICA, C. I. 0., #262, FURNITURE WORKERS UNION #1541,
A. F. OF L.
Cases Nos. RE-7 to RE-13, inclusive. Decided April 19, 1940
Mattress , Bedding, Upholsteiy , and Furniture Manufacturing Industry-
Investigation of Representatives : separate petitions filed by employer Com-
panies ; controversies concerning representation of employees of respective Com-
panies ; conflicting claims by two rival labor organizations to representation of
a majority of employees in each of the units claimed to be appropriate ; pos-
sibly outstanding closed-shop contract of employer association , consisting in
part of the Companies, with one union , covering employees of all Companies
and other employees , no bar to separate elections among employees of each
Company where opposing union notified Companies prior to date of automatic
renewal of such contract of its claims to representation , and where all parties
stipulated that such elections should be held-Units Appropriate for Collective
Bargaining : all employees of each of the Companies at San r 'rancisco, Cali-
fornia, engaged ' in the fabricating , repairing , renovating , assembling, or handling
of furniture and bedding or parts thereof , including foremen engaged generally
as working foremen, helpers , apprentices , maintenance men, and all other
workers, but excluding executives , salesmen , truck drivers , general office em-
ployees, shipping clerks, non -working foremen engaged generally in supervisory
non-working duties, and foremen who take no part in the fabricating, repairing,
renovating , assembling , or handling of furniture , bedding or , parts thereof ;
stipulation as to-Elections Ordered: separate elections among employees of
respective Companies ; on stipulation , eligibility determined by pay roll of
each Company last preceding date of hearing.
Mr. Leslie Lubliner, for the Board.
Chapman and Woollacott, by Mr. James F. Woollacott, of Los
Angeles, Calif., for the Companies.
Gladstein, Grossman, and Margolis, by Mr. Richard Gladstein, of
San Francisco, Calif., for the United.
Mr. Matthew 0. Tobriner and Mr. Charles J. Janigan, of San
Francisco, Calif., for the Furniture Workers.
Mr. Louis S. Penfield, of counsel to the Board.
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DECISION
AND
DIRECTION OF ELECTIONS
STATEMENT OF THE CASE
On November 28, 1939, Paul Spagnoli, an individual doing busi-
ness as Dreamland Bedding & Upholstery Co.; John Hoey Com-
pany; Pacific Felt Company, a corporation; Premier Bed and Spring
Company, a corporation doing business under the trade name of Rome
Co., Inc. ; Rutherford & Hood, a copartnership ; Albert Strauch, an in-
dividual doing business as San Francisco Bedding Company ; Sun-
set Feather Company, a corporation; and Wilson & Jansen, a co-
partnership, all of San Francisco, California, and, excepting John
Hoey Company,' collectively referred to as the Companies, filed here-
in with the Regional Director for the Twentieth Region (San Fran-
cisco, California) separate petitions alleging that questions affect-
ing commerce had arisen concerning the representation of the respec-
tive employees of the Companies, and requesting investigations and
certifications pursuant to Section 9 (c) of the National Labor Rela-
tions Act, 49 Stat. 449, herein called the Act. On February 16, 1940,
the National Labor Relations Board, herein called the Board, acting
pursuant to Section 9 (c) of the Act and Article III, Sections 3 and
10 (c) (2), of National Labor Relations Board Rules and Regula-
tions-Series 2, as amended, ordered an investigation upon the peti-
tions and authorized the Regional Director to conduct it and to pro-
vide for an appropriate hearing on due notice, and further ordered
that the above-entitled cases be consolidated.
On February 26, 1940, the Regional Director issued a notice of
hearing in the consolidated cases, and on February 28 and March 9,
1940, he issued notices of postponement of'hearing, copies of each of
which were duly served upon each of the Companies and upon United
Furniture Workers of America, Local #262, affiliated with the
C. 1. 0., herein called the United, and Furniture Workers Union, Local
#1541, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America,
A. F. of L., herein called the Furniture Workers, labor organizations
claiming to represent employees directly affected by the investigation.
On March 7, 1940, the Board acting pursuant to Article III, Sec-
tion 10 (c) (4), of National Labor Relations Board Rules and Reg-
ulations-Series 2, as amended, ordered that the case of John Hoeg
Company be severed from the above-mentioned consolidated cases
and further that the petition of John Hoey Company be dismissed.
' As set forth below, the petition of John Hoey Company has been dismissed.
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Copies of this order were duly served upon each of the Companies,
by their counsel, upon the United, and upon the Furniture Workers.
Pursuant to notice, a hearing in the consolidated cases was held on
March 21 and 22, 1940, in San Francisco, California, before Albert
L. Lohm, the Trial Examiner duly designated by the Board. The
Board, the Companies, the United, and the Furniture Workers ap-
peared and were represented by counsel and participated in the
hearing. Full opportunity to be heard, to examine and cross-examine
witnesses, and to introduce evidence bearing on the issues was af-
forded all parties. During the course of the hearing, and after some
evidence bearing on the issues had been adduced, the Companies, the
United, and the Furniture Workers entered into certain separate
stipulations and agreements which were accepted by the Trial Ex-
aminer. By these stipulations and agreements all said parties agreed
that separate elections should be conducted among certain desig-
nated employees of the respective Companies to ascertain representa-
tives for the purposes of collective bargaining with each of these
Companies. It was further stipulated and agreed that eligibility to
vote should be determined by the names appearing on the pay rolls
of the respective Companies last preceding the date of the hearing.
In view of these stipulations and agreements, we hold that a motion
made earlier at the hearing, by the Furniture Workers to dismiss
the petitions was abandoned by it upon entering into the stipula-
tions and agreements. During the course of the hearing the Trial
Examiner made several rulings on motions and on objections to the
admission of evidence. The Board has reviewed such rulings and
finds that no prejudicial errors were committed. The rulings are
hereby affirmed.
Upon the entire record in the cases, the Board makes the following :
FINDINGS OF FACT
I. THE BUSINESSES OF THE COMPANIES
A. Dreamland Bedding d Upholstery Co.
Dreamland Bedding & Upholstery Co. is an individual proprietor-
ship owned and operated by Paul Spagnoli who conducts the busi-
ness under that trade name. He maintains an office and principal
place of business in connection with this enterprise at San Francisco,
California, where he engages in the manufacture, sale, and repair of
mattresses, box springs, pillows, cushions, and couches. In the nor-
mal course of the business Spagnoli purchases and uses in connection
with the manufacture of the afore-mentioned products, the follow-
ing raw°riiaterials: cotton, cotton linters, kapok fibers, springs, and
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coverings. In the first 10 months of 1939, $74,682 in value of such
raw materials were so used, of which $23,897 in value were trans-
ported to the San Francisco place of business from points outside
the State of California. During the year 1939 the total gross sales
of finished products amounted to $199,794, none of which was trans-
ported from the San Francisco place of business to points outside
the State of California. During 1940 Spagnoli anticipates that 10
per cent of the products produced, in San Francisco in connection
with this enterprise will be sold and shipped to points outside the
State of California.
This proceeding is concerned solely with approximately 47 persons
employed at the San Francisco place of business.
B. The Pacific Felt Company
Pacific Felt Company is a California corporation with its office and
principal place of business in San Francisco, California, where it
engages^in the manufacture and sale of cotton and wool batting and
upholstery felt. In the normal course of this business Pacific Felt
Company purchases and uses in connection with the manufacture of
the afore-mentioned products, the following raw materials : kapok
fibers, cotton, and cotton linters. In 1939, $340,000 in value of such
raw materials were so used, of which $245,000 in value were trans-
ported to the San Francisco place of business from points outside the
State of California. During the year 1939 the total gross sales of
finished products amounted to $297,037.70. During this same year,
the total value of goods transported from the San Francisco place of
business to points outside the State of California was $90,000.
This proceeding is concerned solely with 33 persons employed at the
San Francisco place of business.
C. Rome Co., Inc.
The Premier Bed and Spring Company is a California corporation
doing business under the trade name of Rome Co., Inc. It maintains
its office, and principal place of business in San Francisco, California,
where it engages in the manufacture, sale, and repair of beds, springs,
couches, chairs, etc. In the normal course of this business the
Premier Bed and Spring Company, doing business under the trade
name of Rome Co., Inc., purchases and uses in connection with the
manufacture of the afore-mentioned products the following raw ma-
terials : cotton, cotton linters, kapok, spring parts, and coverings. In
the first 10 months 9f 1939, $226,645.11 in value were so used, of which
$113,322 in value were transported to the San Francisco place of
business from points outside the State of California. During the
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first 10 months of 1939, the total gross sales of finished products
amounted to $253,100. During this same period the total value of
goods transported from the San Francisco place of business to points
outside the State of California was $126,500.
This proceeding is concerned solely with approximately 122 persons
employed at the San Francisco place of business.
D. Rutherford cC Hood
Roy F. Rutherford and William Hood are copartners doing busi-
ness under the trade name of Rutherford & Hood. They maintain
their principal place of business in San Francisco, California, where
they engage in the manufacture, sale, and repair of mattresses, box
springs, couches, pillows, and cushions. In the normal course of this
business the copartnership purchases and uses in connection with the
manufacture of the afore-mentioned products the following raw ma-
terials : cotton, cotton linters, fibers, spring parts, and covering. In
the first 11 months of 1939, $47,247 in value of such raw materials
were so used, of which $28,723 in value were transported to the San
Francisco place of business from points outside the State of Cali-
fornia. During the first 11 months of 1939 the total gross sales of
finished products amounted to $94,296. During this same period the
total value of the goods transported from the San Francisco place of
business to points outside the State of California was $156.
This proceeding is concerned solely with approximately 16 persons
employed at the San Francisco place of business.
E. San Francisco Bedding Company
San Francisco Bedding Company, is an individual proprietorship
owned and operated by Albert Strauch who conducts the business
under that trade name. He maintains his office and principal place
of business in connection with this enterprise at San Francisco, Cali-
fornia, where he engages in the manufacture, sale, and repair of
mattresses and couches. In the normal course of this business Strauch
purchases and uses in connection with the manufacture of the afore-
mentioned products the following raw materials: cotton, cotton lin-
ters, kapok, lumber, springs, and coverings. In the first 10 months
of 1939, $60,000 in value of such raw materials were so used, of which
$27,500 in value were transported to the San Francisco place of busi-
ness from points outside the State of California. During the year
1939 the total gross sales of the finished products amounted to
$100,000. During this same period the total value of goods trans-
ported from the San Francisco place of business to points outside the
State of California was $15,000.
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This proceeding is concerned solely with approximately 17 persons
employed at the San Francisco place of business.
F. Sunset Feather Company
Sunset Feather Company is a California corporation with its prin-
cipal office and place of business in San Francisco, California, where
it engages in the manufacture and sale of feather pillows. In the
normal course of this business the Sunset Feather Company pur-
chases and uses in connection with the manufacture of the afore-
mentioned product, the following raw materials: feathers, down,
ticking, and coverings. In 1939, $112,737.60 in value of such raw
materials were so used, of which $78,941 in value were transported
to the San Francisco place of business from points outside the State
of California. During the first 9 months of 1939 the total gross sales
of the finished product amounted to $187,896.46. During this same
period the total value of the goods transported from the San Fran-
cisco place of business to points outside the State of California was
$78X3.
This proceeding is concerned solely with approximately 25 persons
employed by the company at its San Francisco place of business.
G. Wilson c0 Jansen
Horace A. Wilson and Phillip R. Jansen are copartners doing busi-
ness under the trade name of Wilson & Jansen. They maintain an
office and principal place of business in San Francisco, California,
where they are engaged in the manufacture of mattresses and box
springs. In the normal course of this business the copartnership pur-
chases and uses in connection with the manufacture of the afore-
mentioned products the following raw materials : cotton, cotton lin-
ters, springs, and coverings. In the first 11 months of 1939, $84,585.09
in value of such raw materials were so used, of which $58,906 in value
were transported to the San Francisco place of business from points
outside the State of California. During the first 11 months of 1939
the total gross sales of the finished products amounted to $168,934.64.
During this same period the total value of the goods transported
from the San Francisco place of business to points outside the State
of California was $2,100.
This proceeding is concerned solely with approximately 26 persons
employed at the San Francisco place of business.
II. THE ORGANIZATIONS INVOLVED
United Furniture Workers of America, Local #262, affiliated with
the C. I. 0., is a labor organization admitting to membership
employees of the Companies.
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Furniture Workers Union, Local #1541, United Brotherhood of
Carpenters and Joiners of America, A. F. of L., is a labor organiza-
tion admitting to membership employees of the Companies.
III. THE QUESTIONS CONCERNING REPRESENTATION
In view of the stipulations and agreements afore-mentioned re-
garding the conduct of elections to determine a statutory representa-
tive for employees of each of the Companies, it becomes unnecessary
to review, except in one respect, the history of collective bargaining
between these Companies and their employees.
On July 16, 1938, Furniture and Bedding Manufacturers of San
Francisco, an employer association including among its membership
the Companies, entered into a collective agreement with the Furniture
Workers, providing for recognition of the Furniture Workers as sole
collective bargaining agency of all employees within certain work
classifications 2 of employer members of the association, for a closed
shop in favor of that union, for preferential hiring of union-members
by association members, and for wages, hours of service, and other
working conditions of these employees. By its terms the agreement
was to remain in effect to and including December 31, 1939, and
"thereafter from year to year unless either party shall give written
notice to the other of at least forty-five (45) days prior to such
expiration date of such desire to amend or terminate this agree-
ment ..."
On November 6, 1939, prior to the expiration of the time within
which notice of termination could be given under the above-men-
tioned contract, the United notified in writing the Companies, re-
spectivel5, that it was the statutory representative of all production
and maintenance workers employed by the Companies, respectively,
and requested a meeting for collective bargaining purposes looking
toward the making of collective agreements with the United to
succeed the above-mentioned contract between the association mem-
bers and the Furniture Workers in so far as that contract affected
these workers. On November 15, 1939, the Furniture Workers' noti-
fied in writing the Companies, respectively, that it desired to amend
the above-mentioned agreement between itself and the association
members in accordance with the terms thereof, and requested a meet-
ing to discuss matters pertinent thereto. On November 28, 1938, the
Companies filed their respective petitions herein for investigations
and certification of representatives, alleging that each had received
written demands from both the United and the Furniture Workers
that each union was the exclusive collective bargaining representa-
2 These classifications of employees are substantially the same as those contained within
the units hereinafter found to be appropriate for collective bargaining.
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tive of employees of such company. On December 11, 1939, the
Furniture Workers sent each of the Companies a so-called "with-
drawal of notice to amend," stating that it "rescinds, cancels, and
withdraws" the notice of November 15, 1939, and that the terms of
the above-mentioned agreement of July 16, 1938, were in full force and
effect. .. Assuming, without deciding, that such a showing would be
relevant, there is no showing-, that such unilateral' action by the
Furniture Workers was agreed to by the Companies.
Irrespective of whether the agreement between the association
members ,and the Furniture Workers remained in effect after the giv-
ing of the notice, as above stated, the agreement clearly constitutes
no ground for our not proceeding to the elections and certification of
representatives. The United notified the Company of its claim to
representation prior to the time for automatic renewal of the con-
tract.' Moreover, all parties have stipulated that elections should
be held.4
We find that questions have arisen concerning representation of
employees of the Companies.
IV. THE EFFECT OF THE QUESTIONS CONCERNING REPRESENTATION UPON
COMMERCE
We find that each of the questions concerning representation which
has arisen, occurring in connection with the respective operations
of each of the Companies described in Section I above, has a close,
intimate,- and, substantial relation, to trade, traffic, and commerce
among the several States, and tends to lead to labor disputes burden-
ing and obstructing commerce and the free flow of commerce.
V. THE APPROPRIATE UNIT
The petitions respectively allege that a unit appropriate for the
purposes of collective bargaining with each of the respective Com-
panies consists of "all production employees in the employ" of such
company •at its San Francisco' place of business' "excepting executives,
supervisors, clerical [sic] and"f6amsters." At the hearing the Com-
panies, the Furniture Workers, the United, and the Board stipulated
and agreed that the employees of the respective Companies in the
categories hereinafter in this paragraph named constituted units
appropriate for the purposes of collective bargaining. Upon the
3 Matter of Pacific Greyhound Lines and Amalgamated Association of Street, Electric
Railway and ' Motor Coach Employees of America , 9 N L R. B 557 ; Matter of Colonic
Fibre Company, Inc and Cohoes Knit Goods Workers Union No. 21514 , A. F L, 9 N. L.
R B 658; Unit Cast Corporation and Steel JVorkers Organizing Committee, 9 N. L R B
129
4 Cf. Matter of American France Line et al and International Seaman's Union of
America, 3 N L R B. 64.
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basis of these stipulations and agreements, we find that the employees
of each of the Companies, respectively, engaged in the fabricating,
repairing, renovating, assembling, or handling of furniture and
bedding or parts thereof, including foremen engaged generally as
working foremen, helpers, apprentices, maintenance men, and all
other workers, but excluding executives, salesmen, truck drivers, gen-
eral office employees, shipping clerks, non-working foremen engaged
generally in supervisory non-working duties, and foremen who take
no part in the fabricating, repairing, renovating, assembling, or
handling of furniture, bedding, or parts thereof, constitute a separate
unit appropriate for the purposes of collective bargaining and that
such unit will insure to employees of such company the full benefit
of their right to self-organization and to collective bargaining and
otherwise effectuate the policies of the Act; provided, however, that
in respect to the unit composed of employees of Paul Spagnoli, an
individual doing busines as Dreamland Bedding & Upholstery Co.,
employees listed in Appendix A5 are not included in said unit.
VI. THE DETERMINATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
The United and the Furniture Workers made a showing at the
hearing of substantial membership in their respective organizations
among employees of the several Companies within the units we have
found to be appropriate. The parties, as above set forth, have stipu-
lated and agreed that separate elections should be held among em-
ployees of each of the Companies within the respective appropriate
units to ascertain their choice of representatives for the purposes of
collective bargaining. We find that the questions which have arisen
concerning representation can best be resolved by separate elections
by secret ballot. We accordingly shall direct that such elections be
held.
The parties also stipulated and agreed that all employees in the
appropriate units whose names appear on the respective pay rolls of
the Companies last preceding the date of the hearing should be eligible
to vote in the elections. Accordingly employees whose names appear
on the pay roll of each company last preceding the date of the hearing
shall be eligible to vote in the respective election, subject to such limi-
tations and additions as are set forth in the Direction of Elections.
Upon the basis of the above findings of fact and upon the entire
record in the cases, the Board makes the following :
8 The parties stipulated and agreed that the 19 employees hereinafter listed in Appendix
A should be excluded from the appropriate unit because said employees are covered by a
separate written contract with Upholsters ' Union, Local 28, AFL.
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CoNCLusIoNs of LAW
1. Questions affecting commerce have arisen concerning the repre-
sentation of employees of Paul Spagnoli, an individual doing busi-
ness as Dreamland Bedding & Upholstery Co.; Pacific Felt Company,
a corporation; Premier Bed and Spring Company, a corporation doing
business under the trade name of Rome Co., Inc.; Rutherford & Hood,
a copartnership ; Albert Strauch, an individual doing business as San
Francisco Bedding Company; Sunset Feather Company, a corpora-
tion; and Wilson & Jansen, a copartnership, respectively, all of San
Francisco, California, within the meaning of Section 9 (c) and Sec-
tion 2 (6) and (7) of the National Labor Relations Act.
2. All employees of each of the Companies engaged in the fabri-
cating, repairing, renovating, assembling, or handling of furniture
and bedding or parts thereof, including foremen engaged generally as
working foremen, helpers, apprentices, maintenance men, and all other
workers, but excluding executives, salesmen, truck drivers, general
office employees, shipping clerks, non-working formen engaged gen-
erally in supervisory non-working duties, and foremen who take no
part in the fabricating, repairing, renovating, assembling, or handling
of furniture, bedding, or parts thereof, constitute a separate unit ap-
propriate for the purposes of collective bargaining with such company,
within the meaning of Section 9 (b) of the National Labor Relations
Act, provided, however, that in respect to the unit composed of em-
ployees of Paul Spagnoli, an individual doing business as Dreamland
Bedding & Upholstery Co., the employees listed in Appendix A 6 are
not included in said unit.
DIRECTION OF ELECTIONS
By virtue of and pursuant to the power vested in the National Labor
Relations Board by Section 9 (c) of the National Labor Relations Act,
and pursuant to Article III, Sections 8 and 9, of National Labor
Relations Board Rules and Regulations-Series 2, as amended, it is
hereby
DIRECTED that, as part of the investigations authorized by the
Board to ascertain representatives for the purposes of collective
bargaining, separate elections by secret ballot shall be conducted as
early as possible but not later than thirty (30) days from the date
of this Direction of Elections, under the direction and supervision
of the Regional Director for the Twentieth Region, acting in this
matter as agent for the National Labor Relations Board and subject
to Article III, Section 9, of said Rules and Regulations, among em-
ployees in each of the following described groups who were employed
° See footnote 5, supra.
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by the respectively named employer, during the pay-roll period of
such employer last preceding the date of the hearing, including
employees who did not work during such pay-roll period because
they were ill or on vacation, or who were then or have since been
temporarily laid off, but excluding those persons who have since
quit or been discharged for cause,7 to determine whether such em-
ployees desire to be represented by,-United Furniture Workers of
America, Local #262, C. I. 0., or by Furniture Workers Union,
Local #1541, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of
America, A. F. of L., for the purposes of collective bargaining, or
by neither :
(1) All employees of Paul Spagnoli, an individual doing business
as Dreamland Bedding & Upholstery Co., San Francisco, Cali-
fornia, engaged in the fabricating, repairing, renovating, assembling,
or-handling of furniture and bedding or parts thereof, including
foremen engaged generally as working foremen, helpers, apprentices,
maintenance men, and all other workers, but excluding employees
listed in Appendix A,8 executives;,^s<>lesmen, truck drivers, general
office employees, shipping clerks, non-working foremen -engaged gen-
erally in supervisory non-working duties, and foremen who take
no part in the fabricating, repairing, renovating, assembling, or
handling of furniture, bedding, or parts thereof ;
(2) All employees of Pacific Felt Company, San Francisco, Cali-
fornia, a corporation, engaged in the fabricating, repairing, renovat-
ing, assembling,, or. handling of furniture and bedding or parts
thereof, including foremen engaged generally as working foremen,
helpers, apprentices, maintenance-men, and all other -.workers; but
excluding executives, salesmen,' truck drivers, general office em-
ployees, shipping clerks, non-working foremen engaged generally
in supervisory non-working duties, and foremen who take no part
in the fabricating, repairing, renovating, assembling, or handling
of furniture, bedding, or parts thereof;
(3) All employees of Premier Bed and Spring Company, a cor-
poration doing business under the trade name of Rome Co., Inc.,
San Francisco, California, engaged in the fabricating, repairing,
renovating, assembling, or handling of furniture and bedding or
parts thereof, including foremen engaged generally as working
foremen, helpers, apprentices, maintenance men, and -all -other
workers, but excluding executives, salesmen, truck drivers, general
office employees, shipping clerks, non-working foremen engaged
generally in supervisory non=working duties, and foremen who take
'In the absence of a request to the contrary we construe the stipulations and agree-
ments as to eligibility to vote to contemplate the inclusion of employees ill or on vacation,
and the exclusion of persons who have since quit or been discharged for. cause.
8 See footnote 5, supra. I . -
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no part in the fabricating, repairing, renovating, assembling, or
handling of furniture, bedding, or parts thereof ;
(4) All employees of Rutherford & Hood, San Francisco, Cali-
fornia, a copartnership, engaged in the fabricating, repairing,
renovating, assembling, or handling of furniture and bedding or
parts thereof, including foremen engaged generally as working
foremen, helpers, apprentices, maintenance men, and all other
workers, but excluding executives, salesmen, truck drivers, general
office employees, shipping clerks, non-working foremen engaged
generally in supervisory non-working duties, and foremen who take
no part in the' fabricating, repairing, renovating, assembling, or
handling of furniture, bedding, or parts thereof;
(5) All employees of Albert Strauch, an individual doing business
as San Francisco Bedding Company, San Francisco, California, en-
gaged in the fabricating, repairing, renovating, assembling, or han-
dling of furniture and bedding or parts thereof, including foremen
engaged generally as working foremen, helpers, apprentices, main-
tenance-men, and all other workers, -but excluding executives, sales-
men, truck drivers, general office employees, shipping clerks, non-
working foremen engaged generally in supervisory non-working
duties, and foremen who take no part in the fabricating, repairing,
renovating, assembling, or handling of furniture, bedding, or parts
thereof ;
(6) All employees of Sunset Feather Company, San Francisco,
California, a corporation, engaged in the fabricating, repairing,
renovating, assembling, or handling of furniture and bedding or parts
thereof, • including foremen engaged generally as working foremen,
helpers, apprentices, maintenance men, and all other workers, but ex-
cluding executives, salesmen, truck drivers, general office employees,
shipping clerks, non-working foremen engaged generally in super-
visory non-working duties, and foremen who take no part in the
fabricating, repairing, renovating, assembling, or handling of fur-
niture, bedding, or parts thereof;
(7) All employees of Wilson & Jansen, San Francisco, California,
a copartnership, engaged in the fabricating, repairing, renovating,
assembling, or handling of furniture and bedding or parts thereof,
including foremen 'engaged generally as,,working foremen,- -helpers,
apprentices, maintenance men, and all other workers, but excluding
executives, salesmen, truck drivers, general office employees, shipping
clerks, non-working foremen engaged generally in supervisory non-
working duties, and foremen who take no part in the fabricating,
repairing, renovating, assembling, or handling of furniture, bedding,
or parts thereof.
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APPENDIX A
L. Andremi
R. Andremi
Pete Bacigalupi
P. Barreras
T. Chiesa
N. Copeland
Ed. Cuaresina
T. Dabster
M. Dudimer
G. Gasper
K. Gibbons
J. Gladyzs
A. Hallstrom
M. Hitt
Wm. Kennaugh
E. Lagorio
R. Landree
N. Rozinko
A. Waite