Westinghouse Air Brake Co.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Oct 29, 1945

64 N.L.R.B. 547 (N.L.R.B. 1945)

In the Matter Of WESTINGHOUSE AIR BRAKE COMPANY and WESTING-
HOUSE AIR BRAKE OFFICE & TECHNICAL UNION, AFFILIATED WITH
TIIE NATIONAL FEDERATION OF SALARIED UNIONS
Case No. 6-R-1103.-Decided October 29, 1945
Messrs. Thorp, Bostwick, Reed and Armstrong, by Mr. Donald W.
Ebbert, of Pittsburgh, Pa.; and Mr. W. C. Landis, of Wilmerding, Pa.,
for the Company.
Messrs. Robert 147. Allison and H. C. Jones, both of Pittsburgh,
Pa., and Mr. C. S. Sekera, of Turtle Creek, Pa., for the Independent.
Mr. Allan D. McNeil, of Pittsburgh, Pa., and Messrs. Calvin Ful-
mer and Harold Brine, both of Wilmerding, Pa., for the U. E.
Mr. David V. Easton, of counsel to the Board.
DECISION
AND
DIRECTION OF ELECTIONS
STATEMENT OF THE CASE
Upon a petition duly filed by Westinghouse Air Brake Office &
Technical Union, affiliated with the National Federation of Salaried
Unions, herein called the Independent, alleging that a question af-
fecting commerce had arisen concerning the representation of em-
ployees of Westinghouse Air Brake Company, Wilmerding, Penn-
sylvania, herein called the Company, the National Labor Relations
Board provided for an appropriate hearing upon due notice before
Allen Sin^heimer, Jr., Trial Examiner. Said hearing was held at
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on June 4, 5, and 13, 1945. The Com-
pany, the Independent, and United Electrical, Radio & Machine
Workers of America (CIO), herein called the U. E., appeared and
participated. All parties were afforded full opportunity to be heard,
to examine and cross-examine witnesses, and to introduce evidence
bearing on the issues. The Trial Examiner's rulings made at the
hearing are free from prejudicial error and are hereby affirmed. All
parties were afforded an opportunity to file briefs with the Board.
Upon the entire record in the case, the Board makes the following:
64 N. L. R B., No. 93.
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548 DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
FINDINGS or FACT
I. THE BUSINESS OF THE COMPANY
Westinghouse Air Brake Company, a Pennsylvania corporation
with its principal office and plant located at Wilmerding, Pennsyl-
vania, is engaged in the manufacture, sale and distribution of air-
brake equipment for railroads, trolley cars, trucks and busses, and in
the manufacture and distribution of related products. During the
past year, the Company purchased for use at its Wilmerding facilities
raw materials valued in excess 'of $1,000,000, of which more than 50
percent was received from points outside of Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania. During the same period, the Company manufactured
finished products valued in excess of $1,000,000, of which more than
50 percent was sold and shipped to points outside the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania.
The Company admits that it is engaged in commerce within the
meaning of the National Labor Relations Act.
II. TIIE ORGANIZATIONS INVOLVED
Westinghouse Air Brake Office & Technical Union, affiliated with the
National Federation of Salaried Unions, and United Electrical, Radio
& Machine Workers of America, affiliated with the Congress of In-
dustrial Organizations, are labor organizations admitting to member-
ship employees of the Company.
III. THE QUESTION CONCERNING REPRESENTATION
The Company has refused to grant recognition to the Independent
as the exclusive bargaining representative of certain of its employees
until the Independent has been certified by the Board in an appropriate
unit.
Statements of a Field Examiner for the Board, introduced into evi-
dence at the hearing, and statements of the Trial Examiner made at
the hearing, indicate that the Independent represents a substantial
number of employees in the units hereinafter found appropriate.'
We find that a question affecting commerce has 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.
i The statements of the Field Examiner and the Trial Examiner indicating the interests
of the Independent and the U. E in the units hereinafter found appropriate, as evidenced
by the submission of designation , by these organizations to Board agents , are summarized
by the following chart
Totalnumbei of Inde-
Unit einployeesthe) ein pendent U E
Inspectois-------------------------------------------- 68 49 3
Clerical and technical (approximately-)------------------- 764 267 26
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IV. THE APPROPRIATE UNITS
A. The contentions of the parties
The Independent seeks a unit consisting generally of all hourly
paid and salaried office, clerical, and technical employees of the Com-
pany, including inspectors of the Engineering Division, but excluding
supervisory and confidential employees ; in the alternative, it is will-
ing to represent the inspectors in a separate unit.
The U. E. seeks to represent certain employees encompassed by the
Independent's contentions, asserting that hourly paid inspectors of
the Engineering Division,2 salaried factory accounting clerks of the
Accounting Division of those salaried file clerks and typists of this
division who work with them in shop offices, and hourly paid or
salaried general duty clerks,' who are not expediters and hourly paid
material chasers in the Manufacturing Division, comprise an appro-
priate unit; this organization also would be willing to represent' the
inspectors in a separate unit. However, aside from these employees,
the U. E. indicated that it had no interest in representing any of the
other employees sought by the Independent.
The Company contends that inspectors are managerial employees
and should not be represented for collective bargaining purposes, or,
if entitled to bargain collectively, should be represented as a separate
unit; that salaried and hourly paid workers should be represented in
separate units; and that certain employees and classifications of em-
ployees, hereinafter discussed, should be excluded as confidential,
managerial or supervisory employees.
B. Inspectors
In a previous proceeding,' the Board specifically excluded inspec-
tors from the unit of production and maintenance workers it estab-
lished and which is currently represented by the U. E. Although part
of the Engineering Division, these employees perform the duties usu-
ally associated with their classification, working throughout the plant
in close proximity to production and maintenance workers, and under
substantially similar working conditions.5 They have authority to
reject faulty work and to have it corrected, but they exercise no super-
visory control over the employees whose work they inspect, being con-
cerned solely with the quality of products manufactured. They are
not supervisory employees and are not otherwise identified with man-
All inspectors aie hourly paid and are part of the Engineering Division
The hourly paid general duty clerks were occasionally referred to in the record as stores
clerks
4 Matter of Westinghouse Air Brake Company, 4 N . L. R. B. 403.
6 As previously noted, inspectors are hourly paid workers , and they have the same work-
ing hours as the production and maintenance employees.
550 DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
agement. The Company, if overruled in its assertion that inspectors
are managerial employees, asks that they be placed in a separate unit,
and neither the Independent nor the U. E. raises any serious objection
to this request. Under all the foregoing circumstances, we are of the
opinion that inspectors properly comprise a separate appropriate
unit.'
C. The office, clerical, and technical unit
1. Its general scope
As indicated above, the units proposed by the two labor organiza-
tions include both salaried and hourly paid employees, an amalgama-
tion which the Company contends is improper. However, where, as
here, the method of computing the compensation of employees has little
or no relation to their functions or skills,' it does not furnish a reliable
criterion for determining how employees should be grouped for collec-
tive bargaining purposes. We therefore find no merit in the Com-
pany's contention."
Nor are we of the opinion that the employees in the unit proposed
by the U. E. constitute an appropriate bargaining group. The organ-
ization seeks a so-called "plant clerical" unit which is not confined to
any particular division or department of the Company, and which does
not include all employees identically classified or performing similar
work. Thus, the U. E. would include 8 file clerks and 6 typists in the
Accounting Division because they work with the factory accounting
clerks in the factory offices, but would exclude 11 other file clerks and
6 other typists in this division who work in the factory accounting
office.9 Similarly, it would include salaried general duty clerks of the
Manufacturing Division who are not expediters, and hourly paid mate-
rial chasers in this division, but would exclude salaried expediters and
general duty clerks who perform the functions of expediters, despite
the fact that the duties of material chasers, expediters, and general
duty clerks who perform the functions of expediters, are practically
identical. Finally, the Independent has made a substantial showing
of interest among the employees in the more comprehensive unit which
it seeks, including the employees in whom the U. E. is interested 10 As
stated in Matter of Union Switch and Signal Company," "The Board
' The parties agree that J R Barbor, R A Datz, Percy Murry, and T. C Speidel are
supervisory employees and should be excluded we so find.
'For example, the record indicates that hourly paid material chasers perform substan-
tially the same duties as the salaried expediters and general duty clerks who act as
expediters. In addition, the three salaried general duty clerks assigned to the various
storerooms perform duties similar to those of the hourly paid general duty or stores clerks,
who, the Company states, may be transferred at any time to a salaried status.
8 See Matter of Edgewater Steel Company, 56 N L. R. B. 1778
9 Moreover, all typists and file clerks in the Accounting Division can be transferred at
any time to other positions in the same division
10 See footnote 1, supra
11 58 N. L. R B 531.
WESTINGHOUSE AIR BRAKE COMPANY 551
customarily will not predicate its unit finding on the extent of one
union's organization where, as here, organization of employees by a
rival union has been effected on the basis of a broader and more appro-
priate bargaining unit." Consequently, we are not convinced of the
propriety of the unit proposed by the U. E., and are of the opinion
that the more inclusive unit desired by the Independent is appropri-
ate.12
2. Its specific composition
The Company and the Independent agree that all employees or
classifications of employees listed upon Appendix A, attached hereto,
are not supervisory, confidential, or managerial workers. These par-
ties further agree that all employees or categories of employees listed
upon Appendix B, attached hereto, are confidential, managerial, or
supervisory workers. As noted above, the U. E. is interested only in
certain of the Company's employees. Its contentions with respect to
these employees coincide with those of the Independent. We shall
include those employees and classifications of employees listed on
Appendix A, within the office, clerical, and technical unit, and shall
exclude therefrom those employees and classifications of employees
listed on Appendix B. With respect to employees and classifications
of employees concerning whom there is dispute, we shall list such
employees or classifications whom we hereinafter find are properly
part of the collective bargaining unit on Appendix C, attached here-
to, and we shall list-such employees or classifications whom we deter-
mine as being properly excluded therefrom on Appendix D, attached
hereto. The appropriate unit shall also include or exclude employees
currently performing the duties of persons named on all four appen
dices.
We now turn to a discussion of the disputed employees and cate-
gories of employees.
(a) The Accounting Division
The Company urges the exclusion of the following employees and
classifications of employees; the Independent contends to the con-
trary; and, insofar as it has an interest among certain of these
employees, the U. E. supports the Independent's contention :
" See Matter of Union Switch and Signal Company, supra.
We note that the U. E represents few employees in its proposed unit The following
chart sets forth its showing of interest among the employees in the unit which it seeks
Accounting Division : U. B.
75 accounting clerks----------------------------------------------------- 6
6 typists--------------------------------------------------------------- 6
8 file clerks------------------------------------------------------------- 1
Manufacturing Division :
19 material chasers------------------------------------------------------ 6
29 general duty clerks (hourly paid stores clerks) --------------------------- 7
51 salaried general duty clerks (who are not expediters) ---------------------- 9
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Departmental chief factory accounting clerk: These employees are
responsible for the work of from 1 to 13 clerical subordinates. They
receive between 10 and 25 percent more pay than the highest paid
person responsible to them and have authority not only to grant leave
to their subordinates, but to make effective recommendations affecting
their status. We find that departmental chief factory accounting
clerks are supervisory employees and we shall exclude them.
. Miscellaneous personnel in the Accounting Division: From the
evidence adduced at the hearing we are of the opinion and find that
the following persons whose status is also in dispute possess authority
to recommend effectively the discharge, discipline, or change of status
of employees : John P. Attig (assistant tabulating machine super-
visor; Paul P. Carroll (cost estimator); Clarence E. Cortright (cost
accountant); Elsie J. Davis (file clerk); Samuel W. Dorsey (cost
clerk); W. K. Edwards (cost estimator); Louis P. Elwell (cost
clerk); Charles R. Remley (accountant); B. L. Marsh (accountant);
John G. Shutter (supervising cost estimator); Alex W. Stright
(senior time clerk); J. F. Thompson (cost estimator). We shall
exclude them.
On the other hand, the record indicates that the following employees
possess no supervisory authority within the meaning of our customary
definition, are not otherwise identified with management, and do not
perform duties which afford them access to confidential information
directly pertaining to labor relations: Richard C. Beswick (cost
accountant); James Brown (cost clerk)'; Helen G. Berkoben (ac-
countant); F. C. Graham (cost accountant); W. R. Merhaut (ac-
countant); Kenneth W. Marrow (tabulating machine operator); and
Robert R. Scott (accountant). We shall include these employees.
(b) The Industrial Relations Division 13
Disagreement exists between the Company and the Independent
with respect to employee Marion Abate. The Company would exclude
her and the Independent would include her. The record indicates
that Abate is in charge of 12 messengers, and has authority to make
recommendations with respect to their discipline and discharge which
ordinarily would be followed. We find that Abate is a supervisory
employee and we shall exclude her.
(c) The Sales Division 14
Disagreement exists between the Company and the Independent
with respect to the following classifications of employees, whom the
Independent would include and the Company exclude:
13 The U . E. has no interest in the employees in this division.
14 The U. E has no interest in the employees in this division.
WESTINGHOUSE AIR BRAKE COI\IPANY 553
Commercial engineers: The Company employs four commercial
engineers. These persons are either professional engineers or possess
equivalent training, and are required to have a thorough knowledge
of the Company's equipment and engineering policies. Their duties
involve the preparation of specifications and quotations, particularly
in the case of unusual or special products which may be manufactured
by the Company to meet, the particular needs of customers. They
carry on correspondence with the customers on behalf of the Company
under the name of its vice president or general sales manager, and
are authorized to make commitments on its behalf. Under these cir-
cumstances, we shall exclude the commercial engineers as managerial
employees."
Sales engineers: There are three employees in this classification.
One, A. J. Groth, supervises the activities of the Company's dis-
tributors throughout the country. He handles correspondence with
them, interpreting and administering company policy. His deci-
sions with respect to the treatment of the orders of domestic distrib-
utors, who are independent contractors,, are binding upon the Coin-
pany. Thus, he makes delivery commitments, accepts or rejects
cancelations of orders, and passes upon the credit of distributors in
the first instance. Another, S. Jory, represents the Company in its
foreign sales, and performs duties with respect to foreign orders
similar to those performed by Groth with respect to domestic orders.
The third sales engineer, P. E. Lagatolla, performs duties similar to
those of the commercial engineers, except that their work is per-
formed in connection with the regular air brake field, whereas his is
performed in the field of compressers, accessories, and related prod-
ucts. We shall exclude all three sales engineers.16
Order correspondents: There are two employees in this classifica-
tion. One, E. E. Vogel, determines, priorities on deliveries to cus-
tomers. In the course of his duties he is responsible for the activities
of three subordinates concerning whose status he has authority to
make effective recommendations. The other order correspondent,
H. R. Walton, has similar duties, except that his discretion is limited,
and he performs no functions which can be considered as supervisory.
We shall exclude Vogel as a supervisory employee, but shall include
Walton.
(d) The Engineering Division 17
Dispute exists between the Company and the Independent with
regard to the following employees or classifications of employees, the
Independent seeking their inclusion :
16 See Matter of Spicer Manufacturing Company, 55 N L. R. B 1491.
16 See Matter of Spicer Manufacturing Company, supra.
17 Other than inspectors, previously discussed, the U. E has no interest in the employees
in this division.
554 DECISIONS Or NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
Test engineers: These employees perform duties relating to test
and development work, and may have assistants or testers assigned
to them in the furtherance of their functions is At the present time
all, except one test engineer, have such assistants. However, these
assistants look to a foreman who assigns them to the test engineers
rather than the test engineers as their immediate supervisor.
The test engineers plan, schedule, and assign work to the testers,
and are responsible for and carry out tests from the set-up to the
making of test records. They have no authority to make official
recommendations affecting the status of their assistants. Further-
more, although the test engineers and indeed, the testers also, have
access to confidential files relating to.the Company's engineering proc-
esses in the ordinary course of their duties, the test engineers do
not have access to files containing confidential personnel information.
Accordingly, we shall include all test engineers withal the unit 19
From the evidence adduced at the hearing we find that engineering
clerks, Th. C. Burgess and G. C. Croushore, have authority to make
effective recommendations with respect to the status of subordinates.
We shall exclude these persons as supervisory employees. On the
other hand, we find, based upon all the evidence, that statistical
clerk L. E. Cattell and staff engineer Wilbur M. Lewis, do not per-
form duties which can be considered as supervisory or confidential.
Accordingly, we shall include them.
(e) The Manufacturing Division 20
Disagreement exists with respect to the following employees and
classifications of employees whom the Company would exclude and
the Independent would include :
Telephone operators: The Company seeks the exclusion of persons
so classified on the ground that they are confidential employees.
These individuals perform the duties usually associated with their
classification, and, in the proper performance of these duties, have no
occasion to obtain knowledge of confidential matters pertaining to
labor relations. We shall include them.21
Tool and equipment design engineers and tool and equipment
designers: These employees design and develop tools and equipment.
Although the product of their work may indirectly determine wage
rates insofar as any change of equipment may affect such rates, they
is As a matter of practice, certain testers are customarily assigned to work with the same
test engineer.
10 Cf discussion of tool development men in Matter of Spicer Manufacturing Corpora-
tion, supra.
2" Insofar as the employees hereinafter discussed are concerned, the U E. Is interested
solely in the general duty clerks.
21 See Matter of Continental Steel Corporation. 61 N. L It. B. 97.
WESTINGHOUSE AIR BRAKE COMPANY 555
themselves have no authority to make such determinations. We are
of the opinion that these employees are not so identified with manage-
ment as to warrant their exclusion; accordingly, we shall include
them.
The record indicates that general duty clerks, C. L. Beswick, George
Brown, Margaret Hay, H. H. Kiebler and John Kirk, and production
expediters, W. H. Beswick, C. A. Crux, H. A. Doughty, W. L. Fell,
E. Hilderbrand, C. W. Johnston, T. R. Lloyd, C. C. Lintner, F. H.
McEvoy, W. D. McVicker, William Mateer, and G. K. Morrow, are
responsible for and in charge of various subdivisions of this division
and supervise the work of between 1 and 16 subordinates. Each of
these named individuals has authority to make effective recommenda-
tions regarding the status of their subordinates. We find that they
are supervisory employees, and we shall exclude them.
The Company seeks the exclusion of general duty clerk, Emma L.
Crowell,; typist, Charlotte Bickerstaff ; and stenographers, Thelma I.
Gi Snell, Dorothy L. Jones, and Cecelia McMahon, as confidential
employees. The record indicates that the duties of Crowell, Bicker-
staff, Ginnell, and Jones require that they have free access to confiden-
tial files relating to personnel matters. Under these circumstances,
we shall exclude them as confidential employees. On the other hand,
the evidence with respect to McMahon indicates that, although she
sometimes substitutes for Crowell, and in these instances also has
access to confidential files, apparently these occasions are infrequent,
and her connection with personnel matters is thus relatively slight.
Under these circumstances we shall include her.
3. Conclusions
We find that the following groups of the Company's employees at
its Wilmerding, Pennsylvania, operations, constitute units appropri-
ate for the purposes of collective bargaining within the meaning of
Section 9 (b) of the Act:
(1) All inspectors, excluding J. R. Barbor, R. A. Datz, Percy
Murry, and T. C. Speidel, or persons currently performing the func-
tions of these individuals, all other supervisory employees with the
authority to hire, promote, discharge, discipline, or otherwise effect
changes in the status of employees, or effectively recommend such ac-
tion, and all other employees; and
(2) All office, clerical and technical employees, including employ-
ees and categories of employees listed upon Appendices A and C,
attached hereto, but excluding employees and categories of employees
listed upon Appendices B and D, attached hereto, all other super-
visory employees with authority to hire, promote, discharge, disci-
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pline, or otherwise effect changes in the status of employees, or
effectively recommend such action, and all other employees.
V. THE DETERMINATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
We shall direct that the question concerning representation which
has arisen be resolved by directions by secret ballot among the em-
ployees in the appropriate units who were employed during the pay-
roll period immediately preceding the date of the Direction of
Elections herein, subject to the limitations and additions set forth
in the Direction .22
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, as amended,
it is hereby
DIRECTED that, as part of the investigation to ascertain represen-
tatives for the purposes of collective bargaining with Westinghouse
Air Brake Ccinpany, Wilmerding, Pennsylvania, 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
supervision of the Regional Director for the Sixth 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 immedi-
ately preceding the date of this Direction, including employees who
did not 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 elections, to determine whether they desire to be represented by
Westinghouse Air Brake Office & Technical Union, of hated with the
National Federation of Salaried Unions, or by United Electrical,
Radio '& Machine Workers of America (CIO), for the purposes of
collective bargaining, or by neither.
21 Since the U. E. has indicated some showing of representation among the employees In
both units , we shall accord it a place upon the ballot in the two elections . See Matter of
Thompson Products , Inc, 63 N. L R B 1495 However , we shall permit that organiza-
tion to withdraw from either or both elections, if it so desires provided it gives notice
that it wishes to do so within 10 days from the date of the Direction
WESTINGHOUSE AIR BRAKE COMPANY
APPENDIX A
ACCOUNTING DIVISION
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Accounting clerks File clerks and junior file clerks
Billing machine operators Key punch operators
Comptometer operators Reproducing machine operators
Cost clerks - Tabulating machine operators
Cost estimators Time clerks and junior time clerks
Factory accounting clerks Typists
Supervising Accountant Philip J. Sweeney
LEGAL AND PATENT DIVISION
Detail draftsmen and lay-out Junior engineers
draftsmen Stenographers and typists
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS DIVISION
Janitors
Chauffeurs
File clerks
General duty clerks
Janitors and janitresses
Mail clerks
Typists
OFFICE SERVICE DIVISION
Messengers and city messengers
Reproducing machine operators
Secretaries ( Except those listed
on Appendix B)
Stenographers
Teletype operators
PURCHASING DIVISION
Assistant buyers ( Except those Purchase expediters
listed on Appendix B) Secretaries ( Except those listed
File clerks on Appendix B)
General duty clerks Stenographers
SALES DIVISION
Artists Order clerks
Advertising and publicity copy- Order interpretation clerks
writers (Except those listed on Price clerks
Appendix B) Reproducing machine operators
General duty clerks Stenographers and typists
Librarians
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ENGINEERING DIVISION
Chemical laboratory testers
Design engineers
Detail draftsmen
File clerks
General duty clerks
Junior engineers
Janitors
Laboratory technicians
Laborers
Lay-out draftsmen-
Machinists
Mechanics
Messengers
Reproducing machine operators
Stenographers
Testers
Time clerks
Tracers
Utility workers
Staff Engineer John Canetta
MANUFACTTJRING DIVISION
File clerks
General duty clerks (salaried, ex-
cept those listed on Appendices
B and D)
General duty clerks (hourly
rated)
Messengers
Material chasers
Production expediters (Except
those listed on Appendices B
and D)
Stenographers (Except those list-
ed on Appendices B, C, and D)
Typists (Except those listed on
Appendix D)
TREASURY DIVISION
General duty clerks (Except Statistical clerks
those listed on Appendix B) Stenographers
Paymaster Typists
Special duty clerks (Except those
listed on Appendix B)
APPENDIX B
ACCOUNTING DIVISION
Ass't Factory Accounting Clerk Supervisors:
Harvey H. Allhouse
J. H. Bailey
Vice President and Comptroller: John V. Bowser
Secretaries:
Ruth A. Lusk
Dallas H. Ulm
Supervising Accountants:
Paul C. Brooks
E. A. Rahde
E. C. Troutman
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Cost Estimator William J. Beatty
Cost Accountant Frank W. Coulter
Works Accountant H. C. Donaldson
Assistant Works Accountant Walter D. Ferree
Supervising Time Clerk Harry K. Guckert
Key Punch Supervisor Edna M. Kerr
Factory Accounting Clerk Supervisor Murray E. Lintner
Auditor W. W. Martin
Supervising Cost Estimator Frank E. Merhaut
Tabulating Machine Supervisor Ralph L. Moore
Accounting Clerk Agnes M. McCune
Assistant Auditor F. S. Rittman
Comptometer Rose M. Webb
LEGAL AND PATENT DIVISION
Patent Attorneys:
P. C. Kuhnert
F. E. Miller
A. A. Steinmiller
R. T. Whitney
Priorities Specialist R. J. Brown
Secretary Margaret M. Huemme
Chief Clerk R. T. Shafer
Executive Patent Attorney A. L. Vencill
Assistant Vice-President A. M. Wiggins
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS DIVISION
All employees except the janitor and Marion Abate
OFFICE SERVICE DIVISION
Secretaries
Josephine R. Ammon Mary Eleanor Neely
Rachel G. Black Ann I. Rogers
Mary H. Looney Elizabeth S. Stein
Supervisors
Charles Berkoben, Jr.
Dora H. Peterkin
Cook Gibson Braxton
Clerical Supervisor G. R. Bruner
Assistant Cook Alfred Rector, Jr.
Statistical Clerk Harry C. Whitlatch
Vice -Pres. and Sec 'y R. 0. Yearick
560 DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
PURCHASING DIVISION
Buyers:
E. C. Caves Secretary Helen Smythe
W. W. Dietrich Assistant Buyer E. L. White
H. I. McKeever Director of Purchases H. W. Wolff
W. C. Reich
H. C. Schuch
SALES DIVISION
Supervisors: Secretaries:
L. A. Colclasser M. F. Briggs
G. C. Dehne Sara K. Rasel
Walter R. Grim Ethel M. Shrader
R. G. Dunn Bertha Stein
Walter Al. Leuzinger
F. D. Smith
Managers :
J. A. Ralston
W. V. Walkinshaw
General Sales Manager C. H. Beck
Assistant to Manager James P. Cooper
First Vice-President S. G. Down
Advertising and Publicity Copywriter Edwin E. Flynn
Supervising Commercial Engineer George W. Misner
Assistant Vice-President S. L. Poorman
Chief Clerk Charles B. Strickler
Chief Photographer John Stanger
ENGINEERING DIVISION
Chemists: Foremen:
W. K. Aites C. W. Maliphant
J. B. Evans J. R. Weaver
R. G. Widmyer
Supervising Engineers
A. J. Bent
R. J. Bush
M. B. Cameron
P. L. Crittenden
C. M. Hines
C. F. Hammer
W. B. Kirk
C. E. MacFarlane
G. T. McClure
C. A. Nelson
E. A. Owen
R. R. Stevens
WESTINGHOUSE AIR BRAKE COMPANY
Secretaries
Florence Mateer E. M. Wesley
E. P. Miller R. E. Williams
G. J. Sauter
Chief Engineer E. E. Hewitt
Staff Engineer E. V. Kramer
Test Engineer W. F. Meier
Director of Research J. C. McCune
Vice-President C. D. Stewart
Machinist Supervisor J. H. Heatley
All staff engineers except those listed on Appendices A and C
MANUFACTURING DIVISION
Foremen Superintendents
Assistant foremen Assistant superintendents
Secretaries
Myrtle J. Atwood Helen Phillips
Elsie E. Brisbin Cornelia Schmidt
Melva J. Eremic Jean Statler
Margaret McGough Viola Weaver
Edith M. Petrie
Fanny Elias
D. Al. McBride
L. E. Nelson
Stenographers
M. M. Smith
General Duty Clerics
Minna Williams
Time-Study Operators
Assistants to the Superintendents
David H. Allhouse G. H. Simmons
Assistant to Works Manager P. A. Bevan
Assistant Works Manager A. B. Fox
Construction Engineer C. H. Gueth
Shop Equipment Engineer Frank Leff ard
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Works Manager W. C. Landis
Director of Factory Operations II. L. Nicholson
Chief Telephone Operator Edna A. Morris
Captain of Plant Guards J. F. Richards
Works Engineer D. L. Shelly
Production Expediter E. A. Mraz
Alma J. Closson
William N. Hunter
S. G. Devey C. M. Graham J. C. Smith
Assistant Paymaster Glenn W. Curry
Vice-President and Treasurer S. C. McConahey
Special Duty Clerk and Cashier John C. Aiton
Chief Credit Clerk Barbara Hunt
General Duty Clerk Truman C. Wampler
TREASURY DIVISION
Secretaries
Virginia C. Riley
Assistarnt Treasurers
APPENDIX C
ACCOUNTING DIVISION
Cost Accountants
Richard C. Beswick F. C. Graham
Accountants
Helen G. Berkoben
Cost Clerk James Brown
W. R. Merhaut Robert R. Scott
Tabulating Machine Operator Kenneth W. Marrow
SALES DIVISION
Order Correspondent H. H. Walton
ENGINEERING DIVISION
Test Engineers
Statistical Clerk L. E. Cattell
Staff Engineer Wilbur M. Lewis
MANUFACTURING DIVISION
Telephone Operators Tool and Equipment Design En-
Tool and Equipment Designers gineers
Stenographer Cecelia McMahon
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APPENDIX D
ACCOUNTING DIVISION
Departmental Chief Factory Accounting Clerks
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William L. Erickson James R. Love John M. McKay
James H. Furlong James J. Morrison Walter C. Pricener
Clifford F. Gilmore Frank J. McConnell William H. Pickford
John M. Haler Roderick A. McCoy Harry K. Powelson
Edward F. Kemerer James F. Rising Raymond Parker
Samuel S. Leighner Fred W. Stanger George A. Richard
Robert'J. Raspet James Mc. Walter Willis P. Sullivan
Albert H. Travis George J. Fetters Martha K. Weight
William Logsdon
Cost Estimators
Paul P. Carroll W. K. Edwards J. F. Thompson
Assistant Tabulating Machine Supervisor John P. Attig
Cost Accountant Clarence E. Cortright
Samuel W. Dossey
Cost Clerks
Louis P. Elwell
Accountants
Charles R. Femley B. L. Marsh
File Clerk Elsie J. Davis
Senior Time Clerk Alex W. Stright
Supervising Chief Cost Estimator John G. Shutter
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS DIVISION
Mail Clerk Marion Abate
SALES DIVISION
Commercial Engineers Order Correspondent E. E. Vogel
Sales Engineers
W. C. Burgess
ENGINEERING DIVISION
Engineering Clerks
G. C. Croushore
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C. L. Beswick
George Brown
Emma L. Crowell
W. H. Beswick
C. A. Crux
E. A. Doughty
W. L. Fell
E. Hildebrand
C. W. Johnston
Thelma I. Ginnel
MANUFACTURING DIVISION
General Duty Clerks
Margaret Hay
H. H. Kiebler
John Kirk
Production Expediters
T. R. Lloyd
C. C. Lintner
F. N. McEvoy
W. D. McVicker
William Mateer
G. K. Morrow
Stenographers
Dorothy L. Jones
Typist Charlotte Bickerstaff