Fitzgerald Cotton Mills

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Mar 15, 1938

5 N.L.R.B. 973 (N.L.R.B. 1938)

In the Matter of FITZGERALD COTTON MILLS and TEXTILE WORKERS
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Case No. R-482
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
March 15, 1938
By Decision dated January 21, 1938,E the National Labor Relations
Board, as part of the investigation authorized to ascertain representa-
tives for the purposes of collective bargaining with Fitzgerald Cotton
Mills, directed the Regional Director for the Tenth Region, acting as
agent for the National Labor Relations Board, and subject to National
Labor Relations Board Rules and Regulations-S--ries 1, as amended,
to conduct an election by secret ballot among the production and
maintenance employees of the Fitzgerald Cotton Mills employed by
the Company on July 24, 1937, excluding clerical and supervisory
employees, and those employees who have since quit or been discharged'
for cause, to determine whether or not they desire to be represented
by Textile Workers Organizing Committee for the purposes of collec-
tive bargaining.
Pursuant to said Direction of Election, the Regional Director con-
ducted an election by secret ballot on February 5, 1938. Full oppor-
tunity was accorded to all of the parties to this investigation to par-
ticipate in the conduct of the secret ballot and to make challenges.
Thereafter, on February 11, 1938, the Regional Director, acting pur-
suant 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 to Vote--------------------------------- 361
Total Number of Ballots Cast_________________________________ 219
Total Number of Ballots Counted------------------------------ 219
Total Number of Votes for Textile Workers Organizing Com-
mittee------------------------------------------------------ 197
Total Number of Votes Against Textile Workers Organizing
Committee-------------------------------------------------- 22
Total Number of Blank Ballots________________________________ 0
Total Number of Void Ballots__________________________________ 0-
Total Number of Challenged Ballots___________________________ 0
14 N. L. R. B. 1121. 973
`974 NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
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 Commit-
tee has been designated and selected by a majority of the production
and maintenance employees of Fitzgerald Cotton Mills, excluding
,clerical and supervisory 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 Orgaiiizing
Committee, is the exclusive representative of all such employees for
the purposes of collective bargaining in respect to rates of pay, wages,
-hours of employment, and other conditions of employment.