Georgia Duck & Cordage Mill

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Aug 27, 1937

3 N.L.R.B. 443 (N.L.R.B. 1937)

In the Matter of GEORGIA DUCK & CORDAGE MILL and TEXTILE
WORKERS ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Case No. R-245
Mr. Walter G. Cooper, Jr., for the Board.
Weekes & Candler, by Mr. John Wesley Weekes and Mr. Murphy
Candler, Jr., of Decatur, Ga., for the Company.
Mr. Frank A. Constangy, of Atlanta, Ga., for Textile Workers
Organizing Committee.
Mr. Abraham L. Kaminstein, of counsel to the Board.
DIRECTION OF ELECTION
August 27, 1937
The National Labor Relations Board, having found that a question
affecting commerce has arisen concerning the representation of the
production and maintenance employees of Georgia Duck & Cordage
Mill, Scottdale, Georgia, and that such employees, exclusive of
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 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 Regulations-Series 1,
as amended, hereby
DIRECTS that, as part of the investigation authorized by the Board
to ascertain representatives for the purposes of collective bargaining
with Georgia Duck & Cordage Mill, 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 Tenth 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, as amended,
among the production and maintenance employees of Georgia Duck
& Cordage Mill, exclusive of clerical and supervisory employees, on
the pay roll of Georgia Duck & Cordage Mill for the week ending on
July 17, 1937, to determine whether they desire to be represented by
Textile Workers Organizing Committee for the purposes of collective
bargaining.
MR. EDWIN S. SMITH took no part in the consideration of the above
Direction of Election.
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444 NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
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AMENDMENT TO DIRECTION OF ELECTION
September 1, 1937
On August 27, 1937, the National Labor Relations Board, herein
called the Board, issued a Direction of Election in the above-entitled
case, the election to be held within ten (10) days from the date of the
Direction. Thereafter the Board was advised that the Company had
temporarily ceased production,.but that it would resume normal op-
erations, on September 7, 1937.,
All of the parties having agreed to a postponement of., the election
until such resumption of normal operations, and having also stipu-
lated that all employees working at any time during the week
including July 27, 1937, shall be eligible to vote in said election, but
that employees whose employment has permanently terminated since
July 31, 1937, shall not be eligible to vote in said election, we hereby
amend the Direction of Election issued on August 27, 1937, by strik-
ing therefrom the words "within ten (10) days from the date of this
Direction," and substituting therefor the Words, "within twenty (20)
days from the date of this Direction," and also by striking therefrom
the words "on the pay roll of Georgia Duck & Cordage Mill for the
week ending on July 17, 1937," and substituting therefor the words
"who 'have worked for Georgia Duck & Cordage Mill at any time
during the week including July 27, 1937, exclusive of those whose
employment has permanently terminated since July 31, 1937."
Mr. EDWIN S. SMITI-I took no part in the consideration of the above
Amendment to Direction of Election.