Oliver Farm Equipment Co.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Dec 4, 1943

53 N.L.R.B. 1078 (N.L.R.B. 1943)

In the Matter of OLIVER FARM ' EQUIPMENT COMPANY and UNITED
FARM EQUIPMENT & METAL WORKERS OF AMERICA, C. I. O.
In the Matter of OLIVER FARM EQUIPMENT COMPANY and IiJNrrED
FARM EQUIPMENT & METAL WORKERS OF AMERICA; C. I. O.
Cases Nos. 13-R-1874 and 13-R-1921 respectively.Decided Decem-
ber 4, 1943
Messrs. Vincent O'Brien, John Baker, and John R. Covington, of
Chicago, Ill., for the Company.
Meyers & Meyers, by Mr. Ben Meyers, of Chicago, Ill., for the Union.
Mr. Joseph E. Gubbins, of counsel to the Board.
DECISION
DIRECTION OF ELECTIONS
AND
ORDER
STATEMENT OF THE CASE
Upon separate petitions duly filed by United Farm Equipment &
Metal Workers of America, affiliated with the C. I. 0., herein called
the Union, each alleging that a question affecting commerce had arisen
concerning the representation of employees of Oliver Farm Equip-
ment Company, South Bend, Indiana, herein called the Company,
the National Labor Relations Board provided for an appropriate
consolidated hearing upon due notice before Robert Ackerberg, Trial
Examiner . Said hearing was held at South Bend, Indiana, on Octo-
ber 12 and 13, 1943. The Company and the Union appeared, partici-
pated, and were afforded full opportunity to be heard, to examine
and cross-examine witnesses, and to introduce evidence bearing upon
the issues. The Union moved for dismissal of the petition in Case
No. 13-R-1921. The motion is hereby granted.' The Trial Examiner's
rulings made at the hearing are free from prejudicial error and are
1 Subsequent to the filing of the petition in Case No. 13-R-1921, and before the date of
present hearing , the Union and the Company agreed to include the patternsmiths in the
production and maintenance unit for which the Union is the recognized bargaining repre-
sentative under an existing contract.
53 N. L. R. B., No. 202.
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hereby affirmed. All parties were afforded opportunity to file briefs
with the Board.
Upon the entire record in the case, the Board makes the following :
FINDINGS OF FACT
1. THE BUSINESS OF THE COMPANY
Oliver Farm Equipment Company is a Delaware corporation en-
gaged in the manufacture and sale of farm equipment and war prod-
ucts. The Company operates plants at South Bend, Indiana; Battle
Creek, Michigan; Charles City, Iowa; and Springfield, Ohio; the
plant at South Bend, Indiana, is the only one involved herein. Dur-
ing the year 1942, the Company purchased raw materials valued at
$3,000,000 for its South Bend plant, approximately 50 percent of
which was shipped from points outside the State of Indiana. During
the same period, finished products valued at $5,500,000 were manu-
factured at the plant in question, approximately 80 percent of which
was shipped to points outside the State of Indiana. The Company
admits that it is engaged in commerce within the meaning of the Na-
tional Labor Relations Act.
II. THE ORGANIZATION INVOLVED
United Farm Equipment & Metal Workers of America, affiliated
with the Congress of Industrial Organizations, is a labor organization
admitting to membership employees of the Company.
III. THE QUESTIONS CONCERNING REPRESENTATION
On or about June 11, 1943, the Union requested recognition as the
exclusive bargaining agent for the Company's patternsmiths,2 clerical
and office employees, and certain technical employees. The Company
refused to grant such recognition in the absence of certification by
the Board. A statement prepared by the Acting Regional Director,
introduced in evidence, indicates that the Union represents a sub-
stantial number of the Company's employees in the units hereinafter
found to be appropriate.3
We find that questions affecting commerce have arisen concerning
the representation of employees of the Company, within the meaning
of Section 9 (c) and Section 2 (6) and (7) of the Act.
2 See footnote 1, supra.
2 The statement shows that the Union submitted 64 authorization cards , 59 of which
bear apparently genuine signatures, and 51 of which bear names of persons whose names
are listed on the Company 's pay roll of August 7, 1943 ; there are 140 employees in the
alleged appropriate units.
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IV. THE APPROPRIATE UNITS
The Union seeks a clerical unit comprising all employees of the
following departments at the South Bend Works of the Company,
namely : Timekeepers and miscellaneous factory clerks, Methods and
Standard Department, General Administrative Office, Accounting and
Cost Division, Purchasing Department, Sales Order and Billing De-
partment, Designing and Engineering Department, and Production
Department, excluding supervisory employees, Employment and Hos-
pital Division, employees of the South Bend Sales Branch, employees
of Plant #2 not on the pay roll of Plant #1, and the private secre-
taries of the Plant Manager and the Director of Industrial Relations.
While the Company agrees that certain of the foregoing clerical em-
ployees might constitute an appropriate bargaining unit, it contends
that such employees should not be represented by the same labor or-
ganization as represents the production and maintenance employees.
We And this contention to be without merit; we have frequently held
that clerical employees, although they are generally excluded from
units of production and maintenance workers, may constitute,sepa-
rate appropriate units.' In any such unit they may, of course, be
represented by whatever bargaining agency they choose.,'
With regard to the specific categories comprising an appropriate
clerical unit, the Union and the Company agree that the employees
listed in Appendix A should be included in the unit, and those listed
in Appendix D should be excluded. However, the Company would
exclude and the Union would include certain other employees who are
discussed below.
Employees whose exclusion is requested solely by reason of their
alleged supervisory status
Inventory Supervisors: These two employees supervise the com-
piling of a perpetual inventory of parts and stock in the Production
Department. They have directive authority over the inventory count-
ers who assist them. There is no evidence, however, that they have
authority to recommend or effect changes in the status of employees
under their direction. We shall include inventory supervisors in the
unit.
Shipping Clerk, Senior: This employee makes out bills of lading
and shipping orders, and contacts railroads and trucking companies
for the purpose of ordering cars or trucks needed for shipping the
Company's products. The senior clerk and two junior clerks, who,
* See Matter of Chrysler Corporation (Marysville Plant), 36 N. L. R B 157.
'See Matter of Dravo Corporation, 52 N. L. R. B. 322; Matter of Revere Copper and
Brass, Inc., 51 N. L. R. B. 350.
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assist him in the performance of his duties, comprise the personnel
of the Warehouse Division, under the supervision of a general super-
intendent. We find that the senior shipping clerk does not possess
sufficient supervisory authority with respect to other clerical employees
to warrant his exclusion ; we shall include him in the unit.
Receiving Clerks, Senior: These two employees receive all incoming
freight, express, parcel post, and local deliveries, and are under the
supervision of the Receiving Department foreman. They are assisted
in their, duties by six so-called junior clerks who, in fact, are produc-
tion employees, the majority of whose time is spent in manual labor.
While in the absence of the Receiving Department foreman these
employees assume added supervisory authority with respect to the
six junior clerks, it does not appear that they have any authority to
effect or recommend changes in the status of such employees. We
shall include the senior receiving clerks in the unit.
Checker and Unloading Clerk: This employee spot-checks incoming
materials for size, quantity and description against bills of lading;
he also assists the general foreman of the Receiving Department in
routine duties of a clerical nature. At the instance of the general
foreman of the Receiving Department, or the two senior receiving
clerks, he occasionally directs the six so-called junior clerks referred
to above; however, he has no authority to effect changes in their sta-
tus. We find that the checker and unloading clerk is not a supervisory
employee; we will include him in the unit.
Employees whose exclusion is requested by reason of their alleged
confidential relation to management and their alleged supervisory
status
Accountant, Senior=Pay-roll Department: This employee has su-
pervision of the pay roll, including the checking and auditing of all
labor tickets, the making of all pay-roll deductions, and the perform-
ance of various other duties relating to distribution and accounting.
He has direct supervision over eight senior and four junior clerks and
one addressograph operator, with authority to recommend hiring and
dismissal as to such employees. In view of his supervisory authority,
we shall exclude the senior accountant from the unit.
Accounts Payable Supervisor: This employee supervises all work
relative to accounts payable, computes excess costs of purchased ma-
terials, distributes freight bills and invoices to the proper accounts, and
has access to information consisting of prices and discounts, standards
costs, and balance sheets. He has directive authority over one book-
keeping machine operator. The information which this employee,
may possess in no instance relates directly to the problem of labor
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relations; the possession of important information is of itself insuf-
ficient to justify exclusion from the right to collective bargaining.'
Nor does it appear that this employee possesses authority to effect or
recommend changes in the status of the bookkeeping machine operator.
We shall, accordingly, include him in the unit.
Supervisor-Stores Order Department: This employee keeps a
complete record of supply orders, watches stock balances, and com-
putes costs for pricing withdrawal requisitions; he has access to cost
prices and values of all supplies purchased for the Company. He
is assisted by and directs the work of one clerk. We find that this
employee has neither a confidential relationship to management with
respect to labor relations, nor a supervisory status with respect to the
clerk under his direction. We shall include him in the unit.
Cashier-Bookkeeper: The duties of this employee have to 'do with
the handling of the official and supervisory pay roll and the keeping
of the petty cash account, as well as the keeping of the general ledger
for the Indiana Northern Railway Corporation. He also supervises
the work of the general bookkeeper and has access to salary data,
balance sheets, and other similar records. Since the information to
which this employee has access does not pertain to labor relations, and
since it does not appear that he has authority to effect changes in the
status of the general bookkeeper, we shall include him in the unit.
Assistant Time-study Supervisor:. It is the duty of this employee
to assist the time-study supervisor in the supervision and direction
of time-study and process record operations in the Methods and
Standards Department. He analyzes and investigates excessive
operative expense and devises ways and means of improving methods
to reduce expenses. As assistant to the head of the Methods and
Standards Department, he has effective supervisory authority over
all employees of that department, including time-study men, process
clerks, typists, timekeepers, and secretaries. In view of his super-
visory authority, we shall exclude the assistant time-study supervisor
from the unit.
Time-study Men, Senior: These employees, of whom there are
seven, conduct time-studies of all piece work operations performed
in the plant and establish piece rates, formulate ways and means of
eliminating waste and fatigue, develop formulas and chart data for
planning use, and estimate and compile costs on new parts for use in
ascertaining the proper bidding and selling price. The wage rates
fixed by them are accepted by the Company without submission for
approval to any supervisor or official of the Company. Time-study
men also participate in collective bargaining conferences for the
purpose of advising as to wage rates which are the subject of the
60See Matter of Creamery Package Mfg. Co , 34 N. L R. B. 108.
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negotiations. They have directive authority over all supervisors
and foremen in the factory on matters pertaining to methods and
wage rates, as well as over certain typists and process clerks in the
Methods and Standards Department. Inasmuch as the time-study
men possess authority to affect the status of employees under their
supervision, as well as assist in the establishment of time-study
values and production methods, set wage rates, and participate in
bargaining conferences, we find that they are not only supervisory em-
ployees but enjoy a confidential status closely related to management.
We shall exclude time-study men from the unit .7
Head Process Clerk: This employee is under the supervision of the
time-study and the assistant time-study supervisors. His duties con-
sist of directing and assigning the work in the Methods and Standards
Department to several process clerks and typists. Although he has
directive authority as to these employees, it does not appear that he
possesses authority to effect changes in their status. Nor does the
evidence show that this employee has access to information pertaining
to labor relations. Under the circumstances, we find that the head
process clerk has neither supervisory status nor a confidential relation-
ship with respect to management. He will, accordingly, be included
in the unit.
Process Clerk, Senior and Junior: Under the supervision of the
head process clerk, the senior process clerk ascertains average earnings,
computes direct and total costs, keeps piece-rate files, and compiles
necessary data for the Specification Department; two junior process
clerks assist him in these duties. The senior and junior process clerks
are assisted by typists and clerks. We find that both classifications
of process clerks have neither a confidential relationship with respect
to management nor a supervisory status with respect to other clerical
employees. We shall include them in the unit.
Time-study Rate Clerk: This employee compiles time-studies sub-
mitted by the time-study men and maintains a complete file of such
studies. He has access to information pertaining to day and piece
rates, average earnings of the Company, and manufacturing and stand-
ards costs. On occasion, he is assisted by typists who are subject to
his supervision. We find that the time-study rate clerk has neither
a confidential relationship to management with respect to labor rela-
tions, nor a supervisory status within our customary definition. We
shall include him in the unit.
Timekeepers, Senior and Junior: The four senior timekeepers su-
pervise the work of timekeeping for the various divisions of the Com-
pany and are charged with the duty of computing hourly and daily
I See Matter of Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., 45 N L. It. B. 826; Matter
of Gar Wood Industries, Inc., 41 N. L. It. B. 1157.
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earnings of the employees in those divisions. They direct from one
to three junior timekeepers who assist them in the performance of
their duties. We find that the timekeepers in question have neither a
supervisory status nor a confidential relation to management with
respect to labor relations. We shall include senior and junior time-
keepers in the unit.
Controlled Material Analyst: This employee studies the regulations
issued by the War Production Board, analyzing the requirements of
such regulations, establishes and maintains a complete record for the
control of purchases according to allotment, prepares and submits
various monthly and quarterly Government reports, and has access
to information regarding all phases of plant production, inventories,
purchase prices, and contracts. The only person over whom he ex-
ercises supervisory authority is his secretary. The record shows that
the employee in question does not possess authority to effect or recom-
mend changes in the status of his secretary, and since the information
he has access to does not directly pertain to labor relations, we shall
include him in the unit.
Assistant Manager-Service Department: It is the duty of this em-
ployee to assist the service manager in the supervision of service work.
The Service Department's personnel consists of the service manager,
the employee in question, and the secretary to the service manager.
The assistant service manager is assisted on occasion by several junior
clerks. He has access to retail selling prices and discounts, and the
financial status of dealers. We find that the assistant service manager
does not enjoy a confidential relationship to management with regard
to labor relations, nor does he have sufficient supervisory authority
with respect to other clerical employees to warrant his exclusion. He
will, accordingly, be included in the unit.
Assistant Supervisor;, Sales Order Department, and Billing De-
partment Supervisor: The duties of the assistant supervisor consist
in contacting the branch offices, dealers, and outside concerns relative
to matters of shipping. He has access to information regarding
customer accounts and discounts, manufacturing and standards costs,
and the salary rates of his subordinates; he has approximately seven
clerks under his supervision. The Billing Department supervisor
contacts dealers on matters of correction and adjustment, and has
access to all manufacturing costs 'and records pertaining to sales; he
supervises the work of approximately six clerks. The evidence shows
that the supervisors in question have authority to recommend changes
in the status of employees under their supervision. We shall.exclude
them from the unit.
Jobbing Order Clerk, Senior; Pricing Department Supervisor;
Accountant (returned goods); and Billing Clerk, Senior: These four
employees work in the Sales Order and Billing Department, under
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the supervision of the assistant supervisor of the Sales Order De-
partment and Billing Department supervisor, and have clerical duties
of a similar nature. They have access to information which has to
do with manufacturing costs, retail prices, and piece-work and day-
work rates of numerous factory employees. They are assisted by
typists, office machine operators, and junior clerks. Since the type
of information that these employees have access to does not pertain
to labor relations and, since the record shows that their supervisory
authority is not such that they can affect the status of any of the
clerical employees in the department, we shall include them in the
unit.
Head Specification Clerk and Specification Clerk, Senior: These
two employees work in the Engineering Department. The head
specification clerk, with the assistance of the senior specification clerk,
assembles engineering specifications from drawing furnished by the
designing engineers and keeps records of such specifications. No
technical knowledge is necessary for the performance of these duties.
While they have access to all designs and specifications of new imple-
ments, which the Company considers to be of a highly confidential
nature, none of this data relates to labor relations. ^ They have no
employees under their supervision. We shall include them in the
unit.
Assistant Purchasing Agents: These two employees determine the
source of supply, interview salesmen, and assist in the general super-
vision of the Purchasing Department. They have access to all price
and discount data, contracts, and other information relative to pur-
chases of materials. They have directive authority over three minor
clerical employees in their department. We find that the assistant
purchasing agents have neither a confidential relationship to manage-
ment with respect to labor relations, nor a supervisory status with
respect to the other clerical employees whom they direct. We shall,
accordingly, include them within the appropriate unit.
Assistant Production Supervisors: The Company employs 2 assistant
production supervisors, one of whom has supervision over the Ware-
house and Shipping Division, and the other has supervision over the
Fabricating and Scheduling Division. The assistant in charge of the
Warehouse and Shipping Division analyzes warehouse records, de-
termines disposition of branch surplus stock, and advises the Sales
Order Department as to shipping dates; he has 8 'employees under
his supervision. The other assistant supervisor analyzes the shipping
quotas and production schedules which determine the method of
scheduling for fabrication; he has 13 employees under his super-
vision. Both assistant production supervisors assist the production
manager in their respective divisions. The record shows that both
supervisors have the authority to make effective recommendations as
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to changes in status of the clerical employees under their supervision.
In view of their supervisory status, we shall exclude the assistant
production supervisors from the unit.
Production Section Heads; Production Schedule Clerk; and Quota
and Shipping Clerk: Production section heads work in the Produc-
tion Department under the supervision of the assistant production
supervisors. Their duties consist of analyzing records for schedule
requirements, issuing purchase requisitions, making up future esti-
mates, and performing other routine work in that department; they
have access to all production information relative to amounts and
type of products furnished on defense contracts, and have directive
authority with respect to the typists and clerks in the Production
Department. The production schedule clerk and the quota and ship-
ping clerk perform duties similar in nature to those of the production
section heads; they likewise have access to piece-work rates, standards
costs, and all other production and schedule information, and also
have directive authority over typists and clerks in the Production
Department. We find that production section heads, the production
schedule clerk, and the quota and shipping clerk have neither a con-
fidential relationship with respect to management nor a supervisory
status with respect to clerical employees under their direction. We
shall include them in the unit.
Employees whose exclusion is requested solely by reason of their
alleged, confidential relationship to management
Secretaries to Department Heads: The secretaries to the depart-
ment heads, listed in Appendix B, have the customary duties usually
associated with such positions. It does not appear that in the course
of their duties these secretaries have access to information of a suffi-
ciently confidential character relating to the labor relations of the
Company to warrant their exclusion. We shall include them within
the appropriate unit.
Miscellaneous Classifications: The various clerical employees, listed
in Appendix C, have access to information consisting of pay-roll
records, prices, costs of production, annual earnings, wage rates, and
various financial data. Such information, however, does not relate
directly to the problem of labor relations. Accordingly, we find that
these employees do not have a confidential status; we shall include
them i n the unit.
The Company contends that technical employees should be placed
in a separate unit. The Union takes no definite position with respect
to the appropriateness of a separate unit composed of such employees,
but does seek to represent them. We have on occasion excluded
technical employees from a unit of clerical employees on the ground
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that such employees are usually college trained and have interests
and functions differing from those of clerical employees.,, We are
of the opinion , therefore , that the technical employees of the Com-
pany appropriately constitute a separate bargaining unit. The par-
ties agree that the chief designing engineer, assistant chief designing
engineer, and the chief process engineer should be excluded from
any unit found appropriate by the Board . The Company contends,
however, that senior designing engineers , process engineers , and the
metallurgist should be excluded from the technical unit on the ground
that they are supervisory employees ; the Union desires their inclusion.
The senior designing engineers have directive authority over one
junior engineer and one draftsman ; the two process engineers have
directive authority over one draftsman . It does not appear that
either the senior designing engineers or the process engineers can
effect or recommend changes in the status of the employees subject to
their direction . The metallurgist , however , as head of the laboratory
Department , has supervisory authority over the laboratory assistant
and can make recommendations affecting his employee status. We
shall exclude the metallurgist from the unit and include the design-
ing engineers and the process engineers.
We find that the following groups of the Company's employees
constitute units appropriate for the purposes of collective bargaining,
within the meaning of Section 9 (b) and Section 2 (6) and (7) of the
Act.
(1) All office and clerical employees of South Bend Plant #1 of
Oliver Farm Equipment Company , employed in the General Admin-
istrative Office , Accounting and Cost Division , Methods and Standards
Department , Production Department , Purchasing Department, Sales
Order and Billing Department , Service Department, Warehouse Divi-
sion, Receiving Division , Inspection Department , and Foundry Divi-
sion, including all employees listed in Appendices A, B, and C,
inventory supervisors , senior shipping clerk , senior receiving clerks,
checker and unloading clerk , accounts payable supervisor , stores order
department supervisor , cashier-bookkeeper , head process clerk , senior
and junior process clerks , time-study rate clerk, senior and junior
timekeepers , controlled material analyst, assistant manager of the
service department , senior jobbing order clerk , pricing department
supervisor , accountant ( returned goods ), senior billing clerk, head
specification clerk , senior specification clerk, assistant purchasing
agents, production section heads , production schedule clerk , and quota
and shipping clerk, but excluding employees at Plant #2 who are
not on the pay roll of Plant #1, all employees listed in Appendix D,
senior accountant in pay -roll department, assistant time-study super-
8
Matter of Curtiss-Wright Corporation (Airplane Division, Louisville, Kentucky),
52 N. L. R. B. 805; Matter of Boston Edison Company, 51 N. L. R. B. 186.
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visor, time-study men, assistant supervisor in the Sales Order Depart-
ment, Billing Department supervisor, assistant production super-
visors, and all other supervisory employees with authority to hire,
promote, discharge, discipline;or otherwise effect changes in the status
of employees, or effectively recommend such action, and ,
(2) All technical employees of South Bend Plant #1 of Oliver
Farm Equipment Company, including process engineers, senior and
junior designing engineers, draftsmen, and laboratory assistants, but
excluding the chief designing engineer, assistant chief designing
engineer, chief process engineer, metallurgist, and all other super-
visory employees with authority to hire, promote, discharge, disci-
pline, or otherwise effect changes in the status of employees, or effec-
tively recommend such action.
V. THE DETERMINATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
There is pending before the Board'a proceeding against the Com-,
pany upon' charges alleging unfair labor practices; however, the Union
desires an early election and has formally waived the right to'protest
an election in this case on any grounds set forth in that proceeding.'
We shall direct that the question concerning representation which
has 'arisen be resolved by an election by secret ballot among the
employees in the appropriate unit who were employed during the
pay-roll period immediately preceding the date of our Direction of
Elections herein, subject to the limitations and additions set forth in
said Direction.
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, Section 9, of National Labor Relations
Board Rules and Regulations-Series 3, it is hereby'
DIRECTED that, as part of the investigation to ascertain representa-
tives for the purposes of collective bargaining with Oliver Farm
Equipment Company, South Bend, Indiana, elections by secret ballot
shall be conducted as early as possible, but not later than thirty (30)
days from the date of this Direction, under the direction and super-
vision of the Regional Director for the Thirteenth Region, acting in
this matter as agent for the National Labor Relations Board, and
subject to Article III, Sections 10 and 11, of said Rules and Regula-
tions, among the employees in the units found appropriate in Section
IV, above, who were employed during the pay-roll period immediately
preceding the date of this Direction, including employees who did not'
9 Case No. 13-C-2181.
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work'during said pay-roll period because they were ill or on vacation
or temporarily laid off, and including employees in the armed forces
of the United States who present themselves in person at the polls,
but excluding any who have since quit or been discharged for cause
and have not been rehired or reinstated prior to the date of the election,
to determine whether or not they desire to be represented by United
Farm Equipment & Metal Workers of America, affiliated with the
C. I .0., for the purposes of collective bargaining.
ORDER
IT Is HEREBY ORDERED that the petition for investigation and certi-
fication of representatives of all patternsmiths of Oliver Farm Equip-
ment Company, South Bend, Indiana, filed by the United Farm
Equipment & Metal Workers of America, affiliated with the C. I. 0.,
be, and it hereby is, dismissed. ` •
APPENDIX A
General Administration Office
Mail Clerk Messenger
Accounting and Cost Division
Stores Record Clerk
Stores Order Clerk
Production Department'
Typist Clerks
Production Order Clerks
Production Record Clerks
Shortage Clerk
Production Spot Checkers
Inventory Counters
Purchasing Department
Priorities Clerk
Typist Clerk
Sales Order and Billing Department
Order Clerks, Sr.
Comptometer Operator
Ditto Operator
Order Editor
Order Specification Clerk
Billing Machine Operators
Typist Clerk
Warehouse Division
Shipping Clerks, Jr.
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Inspection Department
Inspection Department Clerk
Forge Division
Schedule and Dispatch Clerk
Factory
Schedule and Dispatch Clerk
Production Record Clerk
APPENDIX B
General Bookkeeper-Assistant Cashier and Secretary to Office
Manager
Secretary to Traffic Manager
Secretary to Works Accountant
Secretary to Time-Study Supervisor
Secretary to Assistant Time-Study Super=visor and Divisional
Superintendents
Secretary to Production Manager
Secretary to Purchasing Agent
Secretary to Director of Purchasing
Secretary to Controlled Material Analyst
Secretary to Manager of Sales Order and Billing Department
Secretary to Service Manager
Secretary and Assistant, to Chief Designing Engineer
APPENDIX C
General Administrative Office
Bookkeeping Machine Operator
Switchboard Operator
Accounting and Cost Division
Cost Clerk, Senior
Budget Analyst
Cost (detail) Clerk, Senior
Accountant, Senior
Pay-roll Clerks, Senior and Junior
•Addressograph Operator and Clerk
Ditto Machine Operator
Methods and Standards Division
Typist Clerk
Purchasing Department
Stenographer Clerk
Sales Order and Billing Department
Billing Recap Clerk
Foundry Division
Chief Foundry Clerk
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APPENDIX D
General Administration Office
Plant Manager
Secretary to, Plant Manager
Office Manager
General Traffic Manager and Assistant Office Manager
Traffic Manager
Accounting and Cost Division
Cost Department Supervisor
Works Accountant
Methods and Standards Department
Time-Study Supervisor
Production Department
Production Manager
Purchasing Department
Purchasing Agent
Sales Order and Billing Department
Department Manager
Employment Department
Personnel Director
Secretary to Personnel Director
Employment Interviewer
Typist Clerks
Industrial Nurses
Safety Clerk
Service Department
Service Manager
Warehouse Division
Superintendent of Warehouse and Shipping
Receiving Division
Receiving Department Foreman
Inspection Department
Chief Inspector
Forge Division
Superintendent of Forge Division
Factory
Supervisor of Fabricated Parts Stock
Foundry Division
Superintendent of Foundry Division