Rossie Velvet Co.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Nov 17, 1937

4 N.L.R.B. 140 (N.L.R.B. 1937)

In the Matter Of ROSSIE VELVET COMPANY and CHARLES B. RAYHALL
and TEXTILE WORKERS ORGANIZING COMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE
FOR INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION
Cases Nos. R-247 and R-248
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
November 17, 1937
On June 24, 1937, and July 7, 1937, respectively, Charles B. Ray-
hall and Textile Workers Organizing Committee of the Committee
for Industrial Organization, herein called the Union, each filed with
the Regional Director for the First Region (Boston, Massachusetts),
a petition alleging that a question affecting commerce had arisen
concerning the representation of production and maintenance em-
ployees of Rossie Velvet Company, herein called the Company, in its
plants at Willimantic, Connecticut, and Mystic, Connecticut. Both
petitions requested an investigation and certification of representa-
tives pursuant to Section 9 (c) of the National Labor RelatioLs Act,
49 Stat. 449, herein called the Act. On July 23, 1937, 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 1, as amended, consolidated the cases for the purposes
of hearing and authorized the Regional Director to conduct an
investigation and to provide for an appropriate hearing.
Pursuant to a notice duly issued and served by the Regional
Director upon the Company, the Union, and Rayhall, a hearing was
held at New London, Connecticut, on August 23 and 24, 1937, before
Henry J. Kent, the Trial Examiner duly designated by the Board.
At the hearing, the Board and the Union were represented by counsel,
the Company appeared by its treasurer, Frank R. Wheeler, and Ray-
hall appeared in his own behalf. Full opportunity to be heard, to
examine and cross-examine witnesses, and to introduce evidence bear-
ing upon the issues was afforded to all parties.
On October 7, 1937, the Board issued a Decision and Direction of
Election' which provided that an election by secret ballot be held
among all the production and maintenance employees of the Company
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DECISIONS AND ORDERS 141
in its Willimantic, Connecticut, and Mystic, Connecticut, plants, who
were employed in said plants on July 7, 1937, except supervisory and
clerical employees, and those who had since quit or been discharged
for cause, to determine whether they desire to be represented by the
Union for the purposes of collective bargaining.
Pursuant to the Direction, balloting was conducted on October 21,
1937. Full opportunity was accorded to all parties to this investiga-
tion to participate in the conduct of the secret ballot and to make
challenges.
On October 22, 1937, the 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 to the proceeding his Intermediate Report on the ballot. No
exceptions to the Intermediate Report have been filed by any of the
parties.
As to the balloting and its results, the Regional Director reported
as follows :
Total number eligible--------------------------------------- 473
Total ballots cast------------------------------------------- 448
Total number of ballots cast for Textile Workers Organizing
Committee of the C. I. 0---------------------------------- 360
Total number of ballots cast against Textile Workers Organ-
izing Committee of the C. I. 0----------------------------- 84
Total number of blank ballots-------------------------------- 1
Total number of void ballots-------------------------------- 3
By virtue of and pursuant to the power vested in the National
Labor Relations Board by Section 9 (c) of the National Labor Rela-
tions Act and pursuant to Article III, Section 8, of National Labor
Relations Board Rules and Regulations-Series 1, as amended,
IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that Textile Workers Organizing Committee
of the Committee for Industrial Organization has been selected by a
majority of all the production and maintenance employees of Rossie
Velvet Company in its Willimantic, Connecticut, and Mystic, Con-
necticut, plants, except supervisory and clerical employees, as their
representative for the purposes of collective bargaining, and that,
pursuant to Section 9 (a) of'the National Labor Relations Act,
Textile Workers Organizing Committee of the Committee for Indus-
trial Organization is the exclusive representative of such employees
for the purposes of collective bargaining in respect to rates of pay,
wages , hours of employment, and other conditions of employment.