Gemco Engineering And Manufacturing Co., Inc.1, Employer And International Union, United Automobile Workers Of America, A. F. Of L., Petitioner, 437 (1948)

In the Matter of GEMCO ENGINEERING AND MANUFACTURING CO., INC.1,

EMPLOYER and INTERNATIONAL UNION, UNITED AUTOMOBILE WORKERS OF AMERICA, A. F. OF L., PETITIONER Case No. 9-R-2694.-Decided February 27, 1948 Messrs. Joseph A. Roach and Howard L. Rabe, of Cincinnati, Ohio, for the Employer.

Messrs. Peter G. Noll and E. F. Eckert, of Cincinnati, Ohio, for the Petitioner.

Messrs Lewis Strickland and A: G. Bush, of Cincinnati, Ohio, for the Intervenor.

Mr. Dan J. Connors, of Cincinnati, Ohio, for the Contracting Union.

DECISION AND DIRECTION OF ELECTION Upon a petition duly filed, a hearing in this case was held at Cincinnati, Ohio, on December 9, 1947, before Philip Fusco, hearing officer. The hearing 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 Act, the Board has delegated its powers in connection with this case to a three-man panel consisting of the undersigned Board Members.* Upon the entire record in the case, the Board makes the following:

FINDINGS OF FACT I. THE BUSINESS OF THE EMPLOYER Gemco Engineering and Manufacturing Co., Inc., is an Ohio corporation with its principal office and only plant located in St. Bernard,

Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati. The Employer, at the time of the filing of the petition herein, was engaged in the manufacture of two-wheeled utility trailers, roll-away garage doors, and other metal fixtures and The name of the Employer appears in the caption as amended at the hearing.

*Members Houston, Murdock, and Gray.

76 N. L. R. B, No. 61.

products. During the year preceding the filing of the petition, the Employer purchased steel, its principal raw material, of a value in excess of $300,000, 95 percent of which was shipped into Ohio from points outside the State. During the same period total sales of finished products exceeded $500,000, of which 95 percent was shipped outside the State.

At the time of the hearing the Employer's operations had been substantially curtailed. Production was confined chiefly to twowheeled trailers, for which raw materials valued at $36,000 a year were purchased. Almost the entire production, valued at $100,000 a year, was shipped to points outside the State. The Employer, at the time of the hearing, was also engaged in job work, valued at $2,500 per week, for J. H. Day Company, Cincinnati, Ohio, a substantial part of which is shipped outside the State. We find that the Employer is engaged in commerce within the meaning of the...

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