NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD

186 THIRD ANNUAL REPORT OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
given to show that the employees in question should be included in
the plant unit!'
The considerations above described as applicable to factory clerks
have been generally considered as applicable also to timekeepers.°
In several cases the Board has found that salesmen who operate in
large part outside of an employer's office or plant have interests re-.
quiring their exclusion from a unit which includes primarily manual
workers. 7 However, salesmen have been included in one unit with
other employees where the only unions involved included them among
their membership, 8 or where the other employees in the unit were
primarily white-collar workers and there was a close interconnection
between the work of the salesmen and that of the other employees,° or
where the salesmen spent most of their time in the employer's place
of business, doincr
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work alongside the other employees.1°
With regard to maintenance employees, the Board has held that
where the only union involved desired their exclusion from a unit
for production workers, they would be excluded ; 11 but where one of
two unions desired such exclusion and the other did not, in the
absence of any showing of a substantial difference between the production
and maintenance employees, they would be included in one
unit.12
Watchmen, guards, janitors, and the like are usually excluded from
a unit consisting of ordinary employees, 13 particularly where such
5 Matter of The B. F. Goodrich Company and United Rubber Workers or America, Local No.
43, 3 N. L. R. B. 420; and Matter of Mergenthaler Linotype Co. and Federation of Architects,
Engineers, Chemists and Technicians, 6 N. L. R. B. 671.
6 In two cases, Matter of Interlake Iron Corporation and Amalgated Association of Iron.
Steel, and Tin Workers of North America, Local No. 1657, 6 N. L. R. B. 780, and Matter of
American Radiator Company (Bond Plant and Terminal Plant) and Amalgamated Association
of Iron, Steel & Tin Workers, Lodges 1199 and 1629, 7 N. L. R. B. 452, timekeepers
were excluded at the request of one union, which request was opposed by another. In Matter
of Aluminum Company of America and Its Wholly Owned Subsidiaries, The Aluminum Cooking
Utensil Company and The Aluminum Seal Company and International Union Aluminum
Workers of America, 6 N. L. R. B. 444, and Matter of Des Moines Steel Company and Lodge
2071, A lmatgamated Association of Iron, Steel & Tin Workers of North America, through Steel
Workers Organizing Committee, affiliated with C. I. 0., 6 N. L. R. B. 532, timekeepers were
Included, as requested by the only union involved, although in the latter cases, the employer
contended that they should not be included.
7 Matter of Atlas Mills. Inc. and Textile House Workers Union No. 2269, United Textile
Workers of America, 3 N. L. R. B. 10 ; Matter of Hoffman Beverage Company and Xoint
Local Executive Board of International Union of United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, and Soft
Drink Workers of America, 3 N. L. R. B. 584; Matter of Bendia, Products Corporation and
International Union, United Automobile Workers of America, Bendix Local No. 9, 3 N. L.
R. B. 682; Matter of S. Blechman & Sons, Inc. and United Wholesale Employees of New
York, Local 65, Textile Workers Organizing Committee—Committee for Industrial Organization,
4 N. L. R. B. 15 (separate unit established for outside salesmen) ; Matter of Daily
Mirror, Inc. and The Newspaper Guild of New York, 5 N. L. R. B. 362: Matter of Tennessee
Electric Power Company and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, 7 N. L. R. B.
24; and Matter of Minnesota Broadcasting Company Operating WTON and Newspaper
Guild of the Twin Cities, Minneapolis and St. Paul, Local No. 2 of the American Newspaper
Guild, 7 N. L. R. B. 867.
€ Matter of L. A. Nut House and United Cracker, Bakery & Confectionery Workers of
America, 5 N. L. R. B. 799.
Matter of News Syndicate Co., Dio. and Newspaper Guild of New York, 4 N. L. R. B.
1071.
"Matter of Lido Brothers, Incorporated and United Wholesale Employees (Local No.
65). 5 N. L. R. B. 757.
11 Matter of Northrop Corporation and United Automobile Workers, Local No. 229, 3 N. L.
R. B. 228; Matter of Marks Brothers Company and United Toy and Novelty Workers Local
Industrial Union No. 538, affiliated with the C. L 0., 7 N. L. R. B. 156; and Matter of
Keystone Manufacturing Company and United Toy and Novelty Workers Local Industriat
Union No. 538 of the,C. I. 0., 7 N. L. R. B. 172. But see Matter of Stackpole Carbon Company
and United Electrical & Radio Workers of America, Local No. 502, 6 N. L. R. B. 171,
where the union had agreed to the Inclusion of maintenance employees generally. but wished
to exclude sweepers and clean-up men. The Board held that the latter were maintenance
employees and should be included. •
12 Matter of Richardson Company and Local Union No. 442, U. A. W. A. 4 N. L. R. B.
835; and Matter of International Harvester Company Tractor Works and Farm Equipment
Workers Association Division of A. A. I. S. & T. W. N. A. Lodge No. 1320, C. I. 0., 5 N. L
R. B. 192.
13 Matter of Todd Shipyards Corporation, Robins Dry Dock and Repair Co. and Tiet fen
and Lang Dry Dock Co. and Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding, Workers of
America, 5 N. L. R. B. 20; Matter of International Harvester Company Tractor Works and