The Long-Bell Lumber Co.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Jul 9, 1942

42 N.L.R.B. 260 (N.L.R.B. 1942)

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In the Matter of THE LONG-BELL LUMBER COMPANY and LUMBER &
SAWMILL WORKERS UNION, LOCAL 2512, CHARTERED BY'THE UNITED
BROTHERHOOD OF CARPENTERS AND JOINERS OF AMERICA, AFFILIATED
WITH THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR
Case No. R-3737
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES,
July 9, 194
On May 27, 1942, the National Labor Relations Board issued its
Decision and Direction of Election in the above-entitled proceeding r
Pursuant to the Direction of Election, an election by secret ballot
Was conducted on June 16, 1942, under the dnection and supervision
of the Regional Director for the Nineteenth Region (Seattle, Wash-
ington). On June 19, 1942, the Acting Regional Dnector, acting
pursuant to Article III, Section 9, of National Labor Relations
Board Rules and Regulations-Series 2, as amended, issued an Elec-
tion Report, copies of which Were duly seived upon the parties. No
objections to the conduct of the ballot or to the Election Report have
been filed by any of the parties
As to the balloting and the results thereof, the Acting Regional
Director reported as follows.
Total on eligibility list ----------------------------------- 389
Total ballots cast----------------------------------------- 283
Total ballots challenged---------------------------------- 1
Total blank ballots-------------------------------------- 0
Total void ballots---------------------------------------- 0
Total valid votes counted--------------------------------- 282
Votes cast for Lumber & Sawmill Workers Union, Local 2512,
chaiteied by U B of C & J of A, A F L---------------- 56
Votes cast for Inteinational Woodworkers of Ameiica, Local
3-34 (C I 0 ) ---------------------------------------- 221
Votes cast for neither------------------------------------- 5
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, 49 Stat 449, and pursuant to Article III, Sections 8 and 9,
of National Labor Relations Board Rules and Regulations-Series 2,
as amended,
141 N L R B 389
42NLRB,No60
260
THE LONG-BELL LUMBER COMPANY 261
IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that International Woodworkers of America,
Local 3-34 (C I 0 ), has been designated and selected by a majority
of all production and maintenance employees of The Long-Bell Lum-
ber Company at its Rydeiwood, -Wdshington, division, including
electricians and W C Gieer, but,excluding supervisory employees
with the power to hire and discharge; office employees; civil engi-
neers; machinists for whom a separate representative has been pre-
viously certified by the Board; mercantile employees; townsite
miscellaneous employees; scalers; yarder,' skidder, high lead, steel
gang, and section foiemen; the rig-up foreman, the line-gang fore-
man, and the pile-driver foreman, as their representative for the
purposes of collective bargaining, and that, pursuant to the provi-
sions of Section 9 (a) of the National Labor Relations Act, Inter-
national Woodworkers of America, Local 3-34 (C. I. O ), is the
exclusive iepresentative of all such employees for the purposes of
collective baigaimng with respect to rates of pay, wages, hours of
employment, and other conditions of employment.