Quincy Lumber Company And International Woodworkers Of America (cio), 1119 (1946)

In the Matter of QUINCY LUMBER COMPANY and INTERNATIONAL WOODWORKERS OF AMERICA (CIO) Case No. 20-R-1479.-Decided May 3, 1946 Mr. C. A. King, of Quincy, Calif., for the Company.

Mr. H. H. Watson, of Greenville, Calif., Mr. Joe F. Clark, of Susanville, Calif., and Mr. Virgil Burtz, of Portland, Oreg., for the Woodworkers.

Mr. Earl Miller, of Westwood, Calif., Mr. Charles Langdon, of Dunsmuir, Calif., and Mr. W. Yoeman, of Klamath Falls, Oreg., for the Sawmill Workers.

Mr. David E. Pitt, of Spring Garden, Calif., for the United.

Miss Margaret M. Farmer, of couisel to the Board.

DECISION AND DIRECTION OF ELECTION STATEMENT OF THE CASE Upon a petition duly filed by International Woodworkers of America (CIO), herein called the Woodworkers, alleging that a question affecting commerce had arisen concerning the representation of employees of Quincy Lumber Company, Quincy; California, herein called the Company, the National Labor Relations Board provided for an appropriate hearing upon due notice before Wallace E. Royster,

Trial Examiner. The hearing was held at Quincy, California, on August 27, 1945. The Company, the Lumber and Sawmill Workers,

  1. F. L., herein called the Sawmill Workers, and United Independent Workers Union, herein called the United, 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 opportunity to file briefs with the Board.

Upon the entire record in the case, the Board makes the following:

FINDINGS OF FACT I. THE BUSINESS OF THE COMPANY Quincy Lumber Company is a Nevada corporation, engaged in logging and in the manufacture of lumber and box shook near Quincy,

California. This proceeding is concerned exclusively with its operations at Sloat, near Quincy. During the calendar year of 1944, the Company's gross revenue was approximately. $1,450,000. Seventy percent of the Company's lumber production is shipped to points outside California.

The Company does not denly, and we, find, that it is engaged in commerce within the meaning of the National Labor Relations Act.

11. THE ORGANIZATIONS INVOLVED International Woodworkers of America is a labor organization affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations, admitting to membership employees of the Company.

Lumber and Sawmill Workers is a labor organization affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, admitting to membership employees of the Company.

United Independent Workers Union is an unaffiliated labor organ-;

ization, admitting to me'mbership employees of the Company.

  1. THE QUESTION CONCERNING REPRESENTATION The Woodworkers claims to represent a majority of the Company's employees. The Company and the United have been since 1940, and are presently operating under a contract of indefinite duration with a 30-day termination clause. The contract, of course, presents no bar to this proceeding.,

    A statement of a Board agent, introduced into evidence at the hearing, indicates that the Woodworkers and the Sawmill...

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