Ingram Manufacturing Co.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

May 25, 1938

7 N.L.R.B. 429 (N.L.R.B. 1938)

In the Matter Of INGRAM MANUFACTURING COMPANY and TEXTILE
WORKERS ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Cases Nos. C-335 and R-234
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
May ^?5, 1938
On March 11, 1938, the National Labor Relations Board, herein
called the Board, issued a Decision, Order, and Direction of Elec-
tion in the above-entitled proceeding.' On March 30, 1938, the Board
issued- an,Amen'dment to Direction of Election.2 ' On April-8, 1938;
the Board issued a Supplemental Decision and Second Amendment
to Direction of Election.' On April 28, 1938, the Board issued a Third
Amendment to Direction of Election.4 The Direction of Election, as
amended, directed that an election by secret ballot be conducted
among the production employees of Ingram Manufacturing Com-
pany, Nashville, Tennessee, who were on the pay roll as of December
18, 1937, excluding foremen, supervisory employees, and clerical em-
ployees, and those employees who have since quit or been discharged
for cause, and excluding also all workers in the Rug Department, to
determine whether or not they desire to be represented by Textile
Workers Organizing Committee, affiliated with the Committee for
Industrial Organization, for the purposes of collective bargaining.
Pursuant to the Decision, Order, and Direction of Election,, as
amended and supplemented, an election by secret ballot has been con-
ducted under the direction and supervision of Charles N. Feidelson,
the Regional Director for the Tenth Region (Atlanta, Georgia),
among the eligible employees of Ingram Manufacturing Company.
On May 10, 1938, the said Regional Director, acting pursuant to
Article III, Section 9, of National Labor Relations Board Rules and
Regulations-Series 1, as amended, issued and duly served upon the
parties an Intermediate Report on the election. No objections or
exceptions to the Intermediate Report have been filed by any of the
parties.
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As to the balloting and its results, the Regional Director reported
as follows :
Total number eligible to vote------------------------------- 334
Total number of ballots cast-------------------------------- 272
Total number of ballots cast for Textile Workers Organizing
Committee ----------------------------------------------- 158
Total number of ballots cast against Textile Workers Organ-
izing Committee------------------------------------------- 89
Total number of challenged ballots--------------------------- 24
Total number of void ballots--------------------------------- 1
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, 49 Stat. 449, and pursuant to Article III, Sections 8
and 9, of National Labor Relations Board Rules and Regulations-
Series 1, as amended,
IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that Textile Workers Organizing Committee,
affiliated with the Committee for Industrial Organization, has been
designated and selected by a majority of the production employees of
Ingram Manufacturing Company, Nashville, Tennessee, excluding
foremen, supervisory employees, clerical employees, and all workers
in the Rug Department, as their representative for the purposes of
collective bargaining, and that, pursuant to the provisions of Section
9 (a) of the National Labor Relations Act, Textile Workers Organ-
izing Committee is the exclusive representative of all such employees
for the purposes of collective bargaining in respect to rates of
pay, wages, hours of employment, and other conditions of employment.