Joliet Wrought Washer Co.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Oct 13, 1939

15 N.L.R.B. 1096 (N.L.R.B. 1939)

n the Matter Of JOLIET WROUGHT WASHER COMPANY and AMALGA-
MATED ASSOCIATION OF IRON, STEEL AND TIN WORKERS OF NORTH
AMERICA, LODGE 1762, BY AND THROUGH STEEL WORKERS ORGANIZ-
ING COMMITTEE, AFFILIATED WITH THE COMMITTEE FOR INDUSTRIAL
ORGANIZATION
Cases Nos. C-623 and R-719.-Decided October 13, 1939
Steel Washer and Stampings Manufacturing Industry-Settlement : stipula-
tion providing for compliance with the Act-Intervention : by two interested
parties subsequent to hearing and Intermediate Report but prior to stipulation
-Approval of Stipulation : by Board ; subject to rights of intervenors-Order:
entered on such provisions of stipulation as do not involve rights of inter-
venors; remainder of proceedings dismissed.
Mr. Jack G. Evans, for the Board.
Mr. William Martin Garvey, of Lockport, Ill., for the respondent.
Mr. Albert A. Krzywonos, of Joliet, Ill., for the S. W. O. C.
Mr. Walter T. Nolte, of counsel to the Board.
DECISION
AND
ORDER
STATEMENT OF THE CASE
On September 14, 1937, Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel
and Tin Workers of North America, Lodge 1762, herein called the
Amalgamated, filed with the Regional Director for the Thirteenth
Region (Chicago, Illinois) a petition 1 alleging that a question affect-
ing commerce had arisen concerning the representation of employees
of Joilet Wrought Washer Company, Rockdale, Illinois, herein called
the respondent, and requesting an investigation and certification of
representatives pursuant to Section 9 (c) of the National Labor Re-
lations Act, 49 Stat. 449, herein called the Act. On October 2, 1937,
the Amalgamated filed a charge with the Regional Director, alleging
that the respondent had engaged in and was engaging in unfair
'In this petition the Amalgamated is designated as "New Act Lodge 1672." In an
amendment to the petition , and throughout the remainder of the proceedings, however, it
is designated as "Lodge 1762." We have adopted the latter designation as correct.
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JOLIET WROUGHT WASHER COMPANY 1097
labor practices affecting commerce, within the meaning of Section
8 (1) and (3) and Section 2 (6) and (7) of the Act. On November
2, 1937, the National Labor Relations Board, herein called the Board,
acting pursuant to Section 9 (c) of the Act and Article III, Section
3, of National Labor Relations Board Rules and Regulations-Series
1, as amended, ordered an investigation of the questions raised in
the petition and authorized the Regional Director to conduct such
investigation and to provide for an appropriate hearing upon due
notice. At the same time, acting pursuant to Article III, Section
10 (c), (2), and Article II, Section 37 (b), of said Rules and Regu-
lations, the Board ordered that the cases arising from the petition
and the charge be consolidated for the purpose of hearing. There-
after the Amalgamated, acting by and through Steel Workers Or-
ganizing Committee, affiliated with the Committee for Industrial
Organization, herein called the S. W. O. C., filed with the Regional
Director an amended petition for investigation and certification of
representatives, dated March- 31, 1938, and amended charges, dated
October 30, 1937, and March 31, 1938, alleging that the respondent
had engaged in and was engaging in unfair labor practices affecting
commerce, within the meaning of Section 8 (1), (3), and- (5) and
Section 2 (6) and (7) of the Act.
Upon the charge and amended charges duly filed by the Amal-
gamated, acting by and through the S. W. O. C., the Board, by the
Regional Director, issued its complaint dated March 31, 1938, against
the respondent, alleging that the respondent had engaged in and was
engaging in unfair labor practices affecting commerce, within the
meaning of Section 8 (1), (3), and (5) and Section 2 (6) and (7)
of the Act. Copies of the complaint and an accompanying. notice of
hearing were duly served upon the respondent, the S. W. O. C., and
the president of the Central Trades and Labor Council, of Joliet,
Illinois, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor.
With respect to the unfair labor practices, the complaint alleged
in substance: (1) that on May 17 and 19, 1937, and thereafter, the
respondent had refused to bargain collectively with the Amalgamated
as the exclusive representative of employees in a unit composed of
production and maintenance workers and machinists, exclusive of
supervisory, office and clerical employees, and watchmen; (2) that it
discharged an employee on June 4, 1937, for the reason that he had
joined and assisted the Amalgamated; (3) that it locked out 44
named employees on June 7, 1937, for the reason that such employees
had joined the Amalgamated and refused to join Wrought Washer
Workers Union, No. 20709,2 herein called Local 20709; (4) that it
2 Designated in the complaint as wrought washer Federal Union Local #20709.
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had instigated the formation of Local 20709 on May 13, 1937, and
had thereafter urged and warned its employees to join Local 20709
and had otherwise fostered, promoted, and encouraged its growth and
dominated and interfered with its administration; and (5) that the
respondent had entered into an agreement with Local 20709 on May
14, 1937, recognizing it as the sole bargaining agency for all em-
ployees in the respondent's plant and requiring newly hired employees
to become members of Local 20709. On April 5, 1938, the respondent
filed its answer in which it denied the commission of unfair labor
practices as alleged in the complaint
Pursuant to notice, a hearing .was held at Joliet, Illinois, from
April 7 to 13, 1938, before Charles W. Whittemore, the Trial Exam-
iner duly designated by the Board. The Board, the respondent, and
the S. W. O. C. were represented by counsel or other duly authorized
agent and participated in the hearing. Full opportunity to be heard,
to examine and cross-examine witnesses, and to introduce evidence
bearing on the issues was afforded all parties.
The Trial Examiner filed an Intermediate Report, dated May 9,
1938, copies of which were duly served upon the respondent and the
S. W. O: C. He found that the respondent had engaged in and was
engaging in unfair labor practices affecting commerce, within the
meaning of Section 8 (1), (3), and '(5) and Section 2 (6) and (7)
of the Act. He recommended that the respondent cease and desist
from such unfair labor practices, that it reinstate 41 employees with
back pay, and that, upon request, it bargain collectively with the
Amalgamated as the exclusive representative of its production and
maintenance employees, with the exception of watchmen and super-
visory employees.
On May 23, 1938, pursuant to an extension of time duly granted,
the respondent filed its exceptions to the Intermediate Report. On
May 21, 1938, International Association of Machinists, herein called
the Machinists, filed a petition for leave to file exceptions to the
Intermediate Report. On May 23, 1938, a similar petition was filed
by Local 20709. Pursuant to permission granted by the Board,
exceptions to the Intermediate Report were duly filed on May 31, 1938,
by the Machinists and Local 20709.
On June 9, 1938, a stipulation and agreement, settling the issues of
the entire proceeding, was entered into by the respondent; the Amal-
gamated, acting by and through the S. W. O. C.; and the Regional
Director. The stipulation and agreement provides as follows:
I
The respondent is, and has been since November 7, 1914, a
corporation' organized and existing by virtue of the laws of the
JOLIET WROUGHT WASHER COMPANY 1099
State of Illinois, having its office, and manufacturing plant in
the City of Rockdale, Will County, State of Illinois, and is now
and has continuously engaged at said plant in the production,
sale and distribution of steel washers and stampings. The chief
raw material used by the respondent in the course and conduct
of its business, consists solely of scrap steel. During the period
from July 1, 1937 to December 31, 1937, the respondent purchased
and had shipped to its plant from points within the State of
Illinois a total of 775,733 pounds of scrap steel. During the
same period the respondent purchased and had shipped to its
plant from points outside the State of Illinois a total of 6,903,660
pounds of scrap steel. Sales and distribution of respondent's
washers and stampings within the State of Illinois during the
same period were valued at $47,883.58. The value of the same
products sold and shipped into states other than the State of
Illinois during the same period was $75,710.45.
The respondent's plant is served by a spur track of the Chi-
cago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad. Steel shipments to the
plant are mainly in carload lots, a small portion arriving by
truck. Unloading and loading of raw materials and finished
products from cars and trucks are performed-by the respondent's
employees.
The respondent is engaged in interstate commerce within the
meaning of Section 2 (6) and (7) of the National Labor Rela-
tions Act, 49 Stat. 449, hereinafter called the Act.
II
It is further stipulated and agreed by and between the re-
spondent, the union, and Leonard C. Bajork, Regional Director
for the Thirteenth Region, National Labor Relations Board,
that upon the basis of the record and Trial Examiner's Inter-
n diate Report in the above captioned case, and this stipulation,
if approved by the National Labor Relations Board, hereinafter
called the Board, and which stipulation is subject to the Board's
consideration of the exceptions filed with the Board on May 31,
1938, by Wrought Washer Federal Union Local 20709 and the
International Association of Machinists, both labor organiza-
tions affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, to the
Trial Examiner's Intermediate Report, an order may forthwith
be entered by the Board providing as follows :
1. The respondent, Joliet Wrought Washer Company, and its
officers, agents, successors and assignees, shall:
(a) Cease and desist from :
(1) In any manner interfering with, restraining or coercing
its employees in the exercise of their right to self-organization,
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to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to bargain collec-
tively through representatives of their own choosing, and to
engage in concerted activities for the purpose of collective bar-
gaining or other mutual aid or protection, as guaranteed in
Section 7 of the Act.
(2) Refusing to bargain collectively with the Amalgamated
Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers of North America,
Lodge 1762, by and through Steel Workers Organizing Com-
mittee, affiliated with the Committee for Industrial Organization,
as exclusive representative of all its production and maintenance
employees and machinists; excluding supervisory, office and
clerical employees, and watchmen.
(3) Discouraging membership in the Amalgamated Associa-
tion of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers of North America, Lodge
1762, by and through Steel Workers Organizing Committee,
affiliated with the Committee for Industrial Organization, or any
other labor organization of its employees, or encouraging mem-
bership in the Wrought Washer Federal Union, Local 20709,
by discriminating in regard to hire or tenure of employment,
or any term or condition of employment, or by threats of such
discrimination.
(4) Conditioning employment in the respondent's plant upon
membership in the Wrought Washer. Federal Union, Local
20709;
(5) Giving effect to its agreements with the Wrought Washer
Federal Union, Local 20709, purportedly signed on May 28 and
29, 1937.
2. Take the following affirmative action which will effectuate
the policies of the Act :
(a) Offer to
Hugo DiGiusto Olga Luaksevich
Joseph Bajt William Karpen
John Batusich George Toton
Mary Bajt Anna Jachymczak
Philip DiGiusto Gildo Ruzzini
Andrew Muha. Lester Cooney
Jennie Gladkowski John Vercellino
Julia Gerl Sophie Lorenc
Victor Bostjancic Mary Goren
Sophie Mikuska Rose Goren
Joseph Baldego, Jr. Henry Baranski
Stanley Baldigo Mike.Dubick
William Boldego John Midlock, Jr.
Sophie Yagodniak Frank Semplinski
JOLIET WROUGHT
Walter Toton
Sophie (Luchik) Roesel
Ann Porvaznik
Mary Minarich
Josephine Paskvan
Edward Wozniak
Casimir Wozniak
WASHER COMPANY 1101
Thomas Harvey
Frank Zolecki
Edward Kolodziej
Francis Walsh
Steve Jachinowski
Mary (Makalowski ) Ballak
Warry DiGiusto
immediate reinstatement to their former positions without
prejudice to their seniority and other rights and privileges,
dismissing, if necessary, all employees hired since June 7, 1937.
If after reinstating. the afore-mentioned employees and dis-
missing employees hired since June 7, 1937, the respondent de-
termines that the services of its staff are not required for the
operation of its plant, it may reduce its staff, providing the
reduction is made without discrimination against any employees
because of union affiliation or activities, following a system of
seniority to be agreed upon with the Amalgamated Association
of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers of North America, Lodge 1762,
by and through Steel Workers Organizing Committee, affiliated
with the Committee for Industrial Organization;
(b) Within a week after the Board's approval of this stipu-
lation pay back pay, by check, to the following employees the
amounts set forth after their names :
Walter Toton, $30.00 Warry DiGiusto, $30.00
Lester Cooney, $30.00 John Midlock, Jr., $30.00
(c) Pay back pay to the employees named in Appendix "A",
attached hereto and made a part hereof, in the amount of five
thousand dollars ($5,000.00) in accordance with the following
schedule and terms of payment.
. Within a week after the Board's approval of this stipulation,
the respondent agrees to pay part of the back pay due the em-
ployees named in Appendix "A" in the amount of twenty-four
hundred dollars ($2,400.00), to be divided equally among each
of said employees, respectively, by payment to each of them, re-
spectively, by check, the sum of sixty-three dollars and fifteen
cents ($63.15). Thirty (30) days after the Board's approval of
this stipulation, the respondent agrees to pay the balance of the
back pay due the employees named in Appendix "A" in the
amount of twenty-six hundred dollars ($2,600.00), to be divided
equally among each of said employees, respectively, by payment
to each of them, respectively, by check, not less than five dollars
($5.00) per month until each of them respectively shall have re-
ceived his equal share, namely the sum of sixty-eight dollars and
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forty-two cents ($68.42). In addition to the above sums the re-
spondent agrees to pay for each of the employees named in Ap-
pendix "A", respectively, his share of Social Security taxes. Such
taxes are not to be deducted from the above sums. If any of
the employees named in Appendix "B" attached hereto and made
a part hereof are laid off, quit, or discharged for a period of
more than thirty (30) consecutive days, the respondent agrees
to pay, upon demand, to each of said employees so laid off, quit,
or discharged, twenty-nine dollars and forty-one cents ($29.41) ;
(d) Upon request, bargain collectively with Amalgamated
Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers of North America,
Lodge 1762, by and through Steel Workers Organizing Com-
mittee, affiliated with the Committee for Industrial Organiza-
tion, as the exclusive representative of all its production and
maintenance employees and machinists, excluding supervisory,
office and clerical employees, and watchmen, in respect to rates
of pay, wages, hours of employment, and other conditions of
employment.
(e) Post immediately in conspicuous places throughout all
departments of its plant in the City of Rockdale, Will County,
State of Illinois, and maintain for a period of thirty (30) con-
secutive days from the date of posting, notices to its employees
stating :
(1) that the respondent will cease and desist in the manner
aforesaid ;
(2) that the respondent's employees, in order to secure or
continue their employment, need not become or remain mem-
bers of the Wrought Washer Federal Union, Local 20709;
(3) that,the respondent's agreements with the Wrought
Washer Federal Union, Local 20709, signed on May 28 and May
29, 1937, are null, void, and of no effect ;
(4) that the respondent upon request, will bargain collectively
with Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers
of North America, Lodge 1762, by and through Steel Workers
Organizing Committee, affiliated with the Committee for Indus-
trial Organization, as the exclusive representative of all its
production and maintenance employees and machinists, exclud-
ing supervisory, office and clerical employees, and watchmen, in
respect to rates of pay, wages, hours of employment, and other
conditions of employment;
(5) that the respondent will not discharge, or in any manner
discriminate in regard to hire or tenure of employment, or any
term or condition of employment of members of the Amalga-
mated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers of North
JOLIET WROUGHT WASHER COMPANY 1103
America, Lodge 1762, by and through Steel Workers Organizing
Committee, (affiliated with the Committee) s for Industrial Or-
ganization, ' or any person assisting said organization, by reason
of such membership or assistance ;
(f) Notify the Regional Director for the Thirteenth Region
in writing within ten (10) days from the date of the Board's
order what steps the respondent has taken to comply herewith.
Upon the Board's issuance of an order based upon terms and
provisions of the stipulation as herein set out, the respondent
expressly consents to the entry by the appropriate United States
Circuit Court of Appeals of an enforcement order embodying
the terms of the Board order, and waives further notice of the
Board's application therefor.
On June 16, 1938, the Board issued an order approving the stipu-
lation and agreement and making it a part of the record in the case,
subject, however, to the Board's consideration of the exceptions to
the Trial Examiner's Intermediate Report filed by Local 20709 and
the Machinists.
In view of the stipulation and agreement it was unnecessary for
the Board to consider the exceptions filed by the respondent. The
Board has considered the petitions of Local 20709 and the Machinists
for leave to file exceptions to the Intermediate Report of the Trial
Examiner and the exceptions filed pursuant thereto. The petitions
allege and the record establishes that neither of these two organiza-
tions was served with a copy of the notice of hearing or otherwise
made a party to the proceedings prior to the time when each filed
its petition for leave to file exceptions. The petitions and exceptions
show that substantial interests of both labor organizations in the
representation of employees of the respondent and in contractual
obligations would be adversely affected by an order incorporating in
full the provisions of the stipulation and agreement as executed by
the respondent, the Amalgamated, and the Regional Director. The
stipulation and agreement was, however, made and approved sub-
ject to the Board's consideration of the exceptions of Local 20709 and
the Machinists. The Board will, therefore, confine ,its order to such
provisions of the stipulation as do not involve rights of Local 20709
or the Machinists and will, in all other respects, dismiss the complaint
and the petition filed by the Amalgamated.4
8 Added.
S The Board has been informed by the Regional Director that the respondent has bar-
gained with the Amalgamated since the signing of the stipulation and agreement and has
executed a contract with that organization . Further proceedings in the instant cases are,
therefore , unnecessary.
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Upon the basis of the above stipulation and the entire record in
the case, the Board makes the following :
FINDINGS OF FACT
1. THE BUSINESS OF THE RESPONDENT
Joliet Wrought Washer Company is, and has been since November
7, 1914, a corporation organized and existing by virtue of the laws
of the State of Illinois , having its office and manufacturing plant
in the city of Rockdale , Will County, State of Illinois , and is now
and has continuously engaged at said plant in the production, sale,
and distribution of steel washers and stampings . The chief raw
material used by the respondent in the course and conduct of its
business consists solely of scrap steel . During the period from July
1, 1937, to December 31 , 1937, the respondent purchased and had
shipped to its plant from points within the State of Illinois a total
of 775,733 pounds of scrap steel . During the same period the
respondent purchased and had shipped to its plant from points out-
side the State of Illinois a total of 6,903,660 pounds of scrap steel.
Sales and distribution of the respondent 's washers and stampings
within the State of Illinois during the same period were valued at
$47,883.58. The value of the same products sold and shipped into
States other than the State of Illinois during the same period was
$75,710.45.
The respondent 's plant is served by a spur track of the Chicago,
Rock Island and Pacific Railroad. Steel shipments to the plant are
mainly in carload lots, a small portion arriving by truck. Unload-
ing and loading of raw materials and finished products from cars
and trucks are performed by the respondent 's employees.
We find that the aforesaid operations of the respondent constitute
a continuous flow of trade , traffic, and commerce among the several
States.
II. THE ORGANIZATIONS INVOLVED
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers of
North America, Lodge 1762, acting by and through Steel Workers
Organizing Committee, is a labor organization affiliated with the
Committee for Industrial Organization, admitting to its member-
ship production and maintenance workers and machinists employed
by the respondent, excluding watchmen, supervisors, and office and
clerical employees.
International Association of Machinists is a labor organization
affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, admitting to its
membership machinists employed by the respondent.
Wrought Washer Workers Union No. 20709 is a labor organization
affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. The classifica-
JOLIET WROUGHT WASHER, COMPANY 1.105
tions of employees of the respondent which are included within its
membership are not shown in the record.
ORDER
Upon the basis of the above findings of fact, stipulation, and the
entire record in the case, and pursuant to Sections 9 (c) and 10 (c) of
the National Labor Relations Act and Article. III, Section 8, of
National Labor Relations Board Rules and Regulations-Series 2,
the National Labor Relations Board hereby orders that Joliet
Wrought Washer Company, its officers, agents, successors, and
assigns, shall:
1. Cease and desist from :
(a) In any manner interfering with, restraining, or coercing its
employees in the exercise of their right to self-organization, to form,
join, or assist labor organizations, to bargain collectively through
representatives of their own choosing, and to engage in concerted
activities for the purpose of -collective bargaining or other mutual
aid or protection, as guaranteed in Section 7 of the Act;
(b) Discouraging membership in the Amalgamated Association
,of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers of North America, Lodge 1762, by
and through Steel Workers Organizing Committee, affiliated with the
Committee for Industrial Organization,. or any other labor organiza
-tion of its employees, by discriminating in regard to hire or tenure
of employment, or any term or condition of employment, or by
threats of such discrimination.
. 2. In so far as such action has. not already been taken, take the
following affirmative action which the Board finds will effectuate
the policies of the Act :
(a) Offer to
Hugo DiGiusto Olga Luaksevich Walter Toton
Joseph Bajt . William Karpen Sophie (Luchik) Roesel
John Batusich George Toton Ann Porvaznik
Mary Bajt Anna Jachymczak Mary • Minarich
Philip DiGiusto Gildo Ruzzini Josephine Paskvan
Andrew Muha Lester Cooney Edward Wozniak
Jennie- Gladkowski John Vercellino Casimir Wozniak
Julia Gerl - Sophie Lorene Thomas Harvey
Victor Bostjancic Mary Goren Frank Zolecki
Sophie Mikuska Rose Goren Edward Kolodziej
Joseph Baldego, Jr. Henry Baranski Francis Walsh
Stanley Baldigo ' Mike Dubick Steve Jachinowski
William Boldego John Midlock, Jr. Mary (Makalowski) Ballak
Sophie Yagodniak Frank Semplinski Warry DiGiusto
immediate reinstatement to their former positions without prejudice
to their seniority and other rights and privileges, dismissing, if
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necessary, all employees hired since June 7, 1937. If after rein-
stating the afore-mentioned employees and dismissing employees
hired since June 7, 1937, the respondent determines that the services
of its staff are not required for the operation of its plant, it may
reduce its staff, providing the reduction is made without discrimina-
tion against any employees because of union affiliation or activities;
(b) Pay back pay, by check, to the following employees in the
amounts set forth after their names : .
Walter Toton, $30.00 Warry DiGiusto, $30.00
Lester Cooney, $30.00 John Midlock, Jr., $30.00
(c) Pay back pay to the employees named in Appendix "A,"
attached hereto and, made a part hereof, in the amount of fivd thou-
sand dollars ($5,000.00) in accordance with the following schedule
and terms of payment.
Pay part of the back pay due the employees named in Appendix
"A" in the amount of twenty-four hundred dollars ($2,400.00), to
be divided equally among each of said employees, respectively, by
payment to each of them, respectively, by check, the sum of sixty-
three dollars and fifteen cents ($63.15). Pay the balance of the back
pay due the employees named in Appendix "A" in the amount of
twenty-six hundred dollars ($2,600.00), to be divided equally among
each of said employees, respectively, by payment to each of them,
respectively, by check, not less than five dollars ($5.00) per month
until each of them respectively shall have received his equal share,
namely the sum of sixty-eight dollars and forty-two cents ($68.42).
In addition to the above sums, pay' for each of the employees named
in Appendix "A" respectively, his share of Social Security taxes.
Such taxes are not to be deducted from the above sums. If any of
the employees named in Appendix "B" attached hereto and made a
part hereof are laid off, quit, or discharged for a period of more than
thirty (30) consecutive days, pay, upon demand, to each of said
employees so laid off, quit, or discharged, twenty-nine dollars and
forty-one cents ($29.41) ;
(d) Post immediately in conspicuous places throughout all depart-
ments of its plant in the city of Rockdale, Will County, State ot
Illinois, and maintain for a period of thirty (30) consecutive days
from the date of posting, notices to its employees stating :
(1) That the respondent will cease and desist in the manner afore-
said ;
(2) That the respondent will not discharge, or in any manner dis-
criminate in regard to hire or tenure of employment, or any term
or condition of employment of members of the Amalgamated As-
sociation of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers of North America, Lodge
1762, by and through Steel Workers Organizing Committee, affiliated
JOLIET WROUGHT WASHER COMPANY 1107
with the Committee for Industrial Organization, or any person assist-
ing said organization, by reason of such membership or assistance;
(e) Notify the Regional Director for the Thirteenth Region
(Chicago, Illinois) in writing within ten (10) days from the date of
the Board's Order what steps the respondent has taken to comply
herewith.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the complaint be, and it hereby is, dis-
missed in so far as it alleges that the respondent engaged in unfair
labor practices by refusing to bargain collectively with the Amalga-
mated ; fostering, promoting, and encouraging the growth of Local
20709 and dominating and interfering with its administration; or
entering into a contract with Local 20709.
AND IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the amended petition for investi-
gation and certification of representatives of employees of Joliet
Wrought Washer Company, Rockdale, Illinois, filed by Amalgamated
Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers of North America, Lodge
1762, by and through Steel Workers Organizing Committee, affiliated
with the Committee for Industrial Organization, be, and it hereby is,
dismissed.
APPENDIX A 6
Hugo Giusto
Joseph Bajt
John Batusich
Mary Bajt
Philip DiGiusto
Andrew Muha
Jennie Gladkowski
Julia Gerl
Victor Bostjancic
Sophie Mikiska 7
Joseph Baldego, Jr.
Stanley Baldigo
William Baldego 8
Olga Lukasevich 9
William Karpen
George Toten1°
Anna Jachyinczak
Gildo Ruzzini
John Vercellino
Sophie Lorenc
Mary Goren
Rose Goren
Henry Baranski
Mike Dubick
Sophie (Luchik ); Roesel
Ann Porvaznik
Mary Minarich
Josephine Paskvan
Edward Wozniak
Casimir Wozniak
Thomas Harvey
Frank Zolecki
Edward Kolodziej
Francis Walsh
Steve Jachinowski
Mary (Makalowski ) Ballak
Frank Semplinski
Sophie Yagodniak
5 Footnotes added.
O Appears elsewhere as Hugo DiGiusto.
'+Appears elsewhere as Sophie Mikuska.
°Appears in the stipulation and order as William Boldego.
G Appears in the stipulation and order as Olgo Luaksevich.
' Appears elsewhere.as George Toton.
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APPENDIX B
Hugo DiGiusto
Joseph Bajt
John Batusich
Mary Bajt
Philip DiGiusto
Andrew Muha
Jennie Gladkowski
Julia Gerl
Victor Bostjancic
Sophie Mikuska
Joseph Baldego, Jr,
Stanley Baldigo
William Baldego
Olga Lukasevich
William Karpen
George Toton
Gildo Ruzzini
John Vercellino
Sophie Lorene,
Mary Goren
Rose Goren
Henry Baranski
Mike Dubick
Mary Minarich
Josephine Paskvan
Edward Wozniak
Casimir Wozniak
Thomas Harvey
Frank Zolecki
Edward Kolodziej
Francis Walsh
Steve Jachinowski
Sophie Yagodniak
Frank Semplinski
no part in the consideration ofMR. WILLIAM M. LEISERSON took
the above Decision and Order.