Loose-Wiles Biscuit Co., Inc.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Dec 23, 1937

4 N.L.R.B. 714 (N.L.R.B. 1937)

In the Matter of LoosE-WII.Es BISCUIT Co., INC. and UNITED BAKERY
AND CONFECTIONERY WORKERS
Case No. R-389
Mr. Henry H. Foster, Jr., for the Board.
Mr. Richard T. Brewster of Kansas City, Mo., 'and Mr. W. A.
Ferguson of New York City,-for the Company.
Maloney, Schwimmer c Bredeho f t, by Mr. Henry I. Schwimmer
of Kansas City, Mo., for the United Bakery and Confectionery
Workers.
Mr. Frederick E. Whitten, of Kansas City, Mo., for the Employees'
Independent Union.
Mr. George Turitz, of counsel to the Board. • .
DIRECTION -OF ELECTION - '
December 23, 1937
The National Labor Relations. Board, having found upon exam-
ination of the record - in the- above matter that a :question, affecting
commerce has arisen concerning the representation of employees of
Loose-Wiles Biscuit Co., Ii c., a Missouri corporation, and that all
the employees of the Company at its Kansas City,,' Missouri, plant
of the classifications listed in Schedule "C" of Board Exhibit No. fi
admitted in evidence at, the ;hearing in the .above-entitled matter held
October 25 and 26, 1937, exclusive of (a) temporary employees, (b)
engineers, firemen and other persons employed in and about the power
plant, (c) supervisors and assistant supervisors; including working
supervisors, (d) office employees, '(e) sales managers,-assistant sales
managers and salesmen;,'(f)7'nur'se, (g)' stationery worker, (h) watch-
men, and (i) matrons, 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 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
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DIRECTS that, as part of 'its' investigation to ascertain representa=
tives for the purposes of collective bargaining with the Loose-Wiles
Biscuit Co., Inc.,' an election by secret ballot shall be 'conducted
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DECISIONS AND ORDERS 715
within a period of fifteen (15) days from the date of this Direction
of Election, under the direction and supervision of the Regional
Director for the Seventeenth 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 em-
ployees of the Company at its Kansas City, Missouri, plant as of
August 10, 1937, of the classifications listed in Schedule "C" of Board
Exhibit No. 6 admitted in evidence at the hearing in the above-
entitled matter held October 25 and 26, 1937, exclusive of (a) tem-
porary employees, (b) engineers, firemen and other persons employed
in and about the power plant, (c) supervisors and assistant super-
visors, including working supervisors, (d) office employees , (e) sales
managers , assistant sales managers and salesmen, (f) nurse, (g)
stationery worker, (h) watchmen, and (i) matrons, to determine
whether they desire to be represented by United Bakery and Confec-
tionery Workers or by the Employees' Independent Union for the
purposes of collective bargaining, or by neither.
MR. DONALD WAKEFIELD SMITH took no part in the consideration
of the above Direction of Election.