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in the record that the organization represented a majority." In
several cases the agreement which the parties have entered into has
taken the form of a stipulation that an agent of the Board should
check the union's membership documents against pay-roll data of
the company and that the results of this comparison should be deemed
a part of the record.4°
Cards, petitions, or statements signed by a majority of the employees
authorizing a labor organization to represent them, or union
membership cards, membership applications, or affidavits of membership
signed by the majority of the employees, have been considered
adequate proof of majority where their authenticity has been established
41 or where this evidence has been uncontested by the parties
to the proceeding.42
545. A stipulation of this kind was relied upon by the Board in Matter of Boorunt and
Pease Company and United Paper Workers Local Industrial Union #292, Affiliated With the
Committee for Industrial Organization, 7 N. L. R. B. 486, where the employer later
requested the Board not to certify the union but to conduct an election on the basis of a
pay roll different from that used in arriving at the stipulation. In denying this request,
the Board pointed out that the new pay roll was not introduced into evidence and that
the employer made no claim that the union had ceased to represent a majority of the
employees in the appropriate unit on the date which it now requested.
39 Matter of McNeely & Price Company and National Leather Workers Association Local
No. 30, of the C. I. 0.
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6 N. L. R. B. 800, in which an official of the respondent admitted
In his testimony that the union had a majority, and in its brief filed with the Board the
respondent declared that "There is no quarrel with the finding that a majority of the
workers belonged to Local 30 * *.'
Matter of Sunlight Electric Company and United Electrical & Radio Workers of America,
6 N. L. R. B. 243; Matter of Cleveland Equipment Works and United Electrical, Radio and
Machine Workers of America, Local 707, 6 N. L. R. B. 773. In Matter of Atlas Mills, Inc.
and Textile House Workers Union, No. 2269, United Textile Workers of America, 3 N. L. R. B.
10, the results of the comparison were not stipulated by the parties, but a representative
of the union, a representative of the respondent, and the Regional Director met and coin.
pared the membership records of the union with a pay roll submitted by the respondent.
As a result the Regional Director advised the respondent in writing that the union represented
a majority of its employees, and the Board accepted this evidence as sufficient proof.
41 For cases in which the Board has found that the union represented a majority of the
employees in an appropriate bargaining unit on the basis of signed authorizations or membership
documents concerning which there has been testimony as to the genuineness of
the signatures, see Matter of Wadsworth Watch Case Company and Metal Polishers, Buffers,
Platers and Helper's International Union., 4 N. L. R. B. 487, in which the cost accountant
of the company testified that he compared the signatures on cards designating the union
as representative for collective bargaining with the signatures of employees in the company's
compensation book ; Matter of Biles-Coleman Lumber Company and Puget Sound
District Council of Lumber and Sawmill Workers, 4 N. L. R. B. 679, in which the signatures
on a petition designating the union as bargaining agency were identified by the union
officials who secured the signatures and personally witnessed the signers affix their signatures;
Matter of Shipowners' Association of the Pacific Coast, et a/. and International Long-
8horemen's and Warehousemen's Union, District No. 1, 7 N. L. R. B. 1002, in which cards
designating the union as bargaining representative were introduced in evidence after
officers of the union who had witnessed the signing of the cards testified that they either
knew all the signers personally, checked the signatures on the cards with signatures on
the union membership books, or called in mutual friends when they were not sure of the
identity of the signer. See also Matter of The Jacobs Bros. Co., Inc. and United Electrical
and Radio Workers of America, Local No. .1226, 5 N. L. R. B. 620, in which cards authorizing
the union to represent the signers for the purposes of collectdve bargaining were introduced
into evidence over objection of the respondent. Comparison of the signatures on the
cards and on a petition signed subsequently by persons employed by the respondent disclosed
no discrepancies. In finding the signatures to be authentic, the Board said : "The
respondent contented itself merely with alleging the lack of identification of the signatures
on the exhibit. It introduced no definite proof that the signatures were not those of the
persons they purport to be. The respondent had in its possession and under its control all
the data necessary to substantiate its objection to the exhibit, but made no effort to do so."
'° For cases in which no question has been raised as to the authenticity of such signed
documents and the Board has, accordingly, accepted this evidence as sufficient proof of a
majority, see Matter of Petroleum Iron Works Company and Steel Workers Organizing
Committee, 3 N. a R. B. 774 (membership application cards) ; Matter of Armour & Company
and Local No. 527, United Packing House Workers' Industrial Union, affiliated with
the Committee for Industrial Organization, 3 N. L. R. B. 895 (membership cards) ; Matter
of Shell Chemical Company and Oil Workers International Union, 4 N. L. R. B. 259 (petitions
designating representative) ; Matter of Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company and
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, Local No. 613, 4 N. L. R. B. 824
(membership cards) ; Matter of News Syndicate Co., Inc. and Newspaper Guild of New
York, 4 N. L. R. B. 1071 (applications) ; Matter of National Refining Company and Oil
Workers International Union, Local No. 420, 5 N. L. R. B. 794 (membership application
cards) ; Matter of Des Moines Steel Company and Lodge 2071, Amalgamated Association of
Iron, Steel d Tin Workers of North America, through Steel Workers Organizing Committee,
affiliated with C. I. 0., 6 N. L. R. B. 532 (membership application cards) ; Matter of Huehne
Manufacturing Company and Local No. 1791, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners