The Cudahy Packing Co.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

May 8, 1940

23 N.L.R.B. 658 (N.L.R.B. 1940)

In the Matter of THE CUDAHY PACKING COMPANY and UNITED
PACKING HOUSE WORKERS, LOCAL INDUSTRIAL UNION No. 194
Cases Nos. C-650 and R-208
SECOND SUPPLEMENTAL DIRECTION OF ELECTION
May 8, 1940
On November 4, 1939, the National Labor; Relations Board, herein
called the Board, issued a Decision, Order, and Direction of Election
in the above-entitled proceedings.- On November 16, 1939, the Board'
issued an Order and Amendment to Direction of Election.2 On
February 10, 1940, the Board issued a Supplemental Direction of
Election.3 On March 7, 1940, the Board issued an Amendment to
Supplemental Direction of Election.4 The Supplemental Direction
of Election, as amended, directed that an election by secret ballot be
conducted as soon, after the date of this Supplemental Direction as
may' be practicable, under the direction and supervision -of the 'Re-
gional Director for the Seventeenth Region (Kansas City, Missouri),
among all production and maintenance employees of The Cudahy
Packing Company at its Kansas City, Kansas, plant employed dur-
ing the pay-roll period next preceding the date of the Supplemental
Direction of Election, including employees who did not work during
such pay-roll period because they were ill or on vacation, and em-
ployees who were then or have since been temporarily laid off, but
excluding foremen, assistant foremen, strawbosses, foreladies, and
also excluding those employees who have since quit or been discharged
for cause; to'determine whether they desire to be represented 'by United
Packing House' Workers of America, Local Union No. 10, of the
Packing House Workers Organizing Committee, affiliated with the
Congress of Industrial Organizations, or by Amalgamated Meat Cut-
ters and Butcher Workmen of North America, Local 574, affiliated with
the American Federation of Labor, for the purposes of collective
bargaining or by neither.
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,
1 17 N L R B 302.
2 17 N L. It B 350
120 N L R B. 324.
421 N L R B. 216.
23 N. L. It. B, No. 56.
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THE CUDAHY PACKING COMPANY 659
49 Stat.'449, and pursuant to Article III, Section 8, of National Labor
Relations Board Rules and Regulations-Series 2, as amended, it is
hereby
DIRECTED that, as part of the investigation authorized by the Board
to ascertain representatives for the purposes of collective bargaining
with The Cudahy Packing Company, Kansas City, Kansas, an elec-
tion by secret ballot shall be conducted on May 24, 1940, under the
direction and supervision of the Regional Director for the Seventeenth
Region, acting in this matter as agent for the National-Labor Rela-
tions Board, and subject to Article III, Section 9, of said Rules and
Regulations, among all production and maintenance employees of The
Cudahy Packing Company at its Kansas City, Kansas, plant, em-
ployed during the pay-roll period ending May 4, 1940, including em-
ployees who did not work during such pay-roll period because they
were ill or on vacation and employees who were then or have since
been temporarily laid off, but excluding foremen, strawbosses, fore-
ladies, and also excluding those employees who have since quit or been
discharged for cause, to determine whether they desire ^o be repre-
sented by United Packing House Workers of America, Local Union
No. 10, of the Packing House Workers Organizing Committee, af-
filiated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations, or(,by, Amal-
gamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America, Local
574, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, for the purposes
of collective bargaining, or by neither.