White Belt Dairy Farms, Inc.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Jul 1, 1949

85 N.L.R.B. 4 (N.L.R.B. 1949)

In the Matter of WHITE BELT DAIRY FARMS, INC., EMPLOYER and
INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS , CHAUFFEURS, WARE-
HOUSEMEN AND HELPERS , AFL, LOCAL No. 390, PETITIONER
Case No. 10-RC-567.-Decided July 1, 1949
DECISION
AND
ORDER
Upon a petition duly filed, a hearing was held before Herman Coren-
man, hearing officer of the National Labor Relations Board. The hear-
ing officer's rulings made at the hearing are free from prejudicial error
and are hereby affirmed.
Pursuant to the provisions of Section 3 (b) of the National Labor
Relations Act, the Board has delegated its powers in connection with
this case to a three-member panel [Members Reynolds, Murdock, and
Gray].
Upon the entire record in this case, the Board makes the following
findings :
1. The Employer is a Florida corporation, having its principal place
of business at Miami, Florida. It operates a farm where milk is pro-
duced, a pasteurizing plant where milk is processed and bottled, and a
plant which manufactures ice and ice cream, all in the State of Florida.
In the past year, the Employer purchased equipment, supplies, and
raw materials valued in excess of $500,000, approximately 10 percent
of which was received from points outside the State. During the same
period, the Employer purchased locally supplies, equipment, and raw
material, valued at about $166,000, which originated outside the State.
All of the Employer's finished products are sold locally to wholesale
and retail dealers, with the exception of an annual sale of about $3,600
worth of milk to the Seaboard Air Lines Railroad. The Employer
estimated that its out-of-State sales amount to not less than 5 percent
of its total sales.
While we do not feel that the Employer's operations are wholly
unrelated to interstate commerce, we believe, in view of the predomi-
nantly local nature of its business and the relative remoteness of its
impact on interstate commerce, that it would not effectuate the policies
85 N. L. R. B., No. 2.
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of the Act to assert jurisdiction in this case.' Accordingly, we shall
,dismiss the instant petition.
ORDER
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the petition filed herein be, and it hereby
is, dismissed.
1 Matter of Skyline Cooperative Dairies, 83 N. L. R. B. 1010.