Hungry Horse news. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1948-current, 1955-11-18
To Vote at Plant Monday and tuesday

Monday and Tuesday viii be e1ec-l
ton days at the new Anaconda Alum
mum Co. plant Official notification
OF the election was received Thurs
day.
The 400 production employees win
vote in National Labor Relations
Board conducted secret ballot elec-
ton held in the conference room Of
the employees change house.
On the ballot will be three squares
for marking an x. Selected b. lot,
and from left to right win be: tia
Aluminium Workers Council Of Col
umbia Falls. AT of L; in the CEN
ter, neither, and on the right, The
United Steelworkers of America CLIO.
An employe may vote for one.
The International Union of Nine,
Mill and Smelter Workers requested
that they not be included on the
ballot.
POLLING HOURS
Polling hours will be from z a. n.
to 9 a. m. and from 3 p. m. until
5 p. m. Monday, and then from 7
a. m. to a. m. Tuesday in order
that all shifts may vote.
Orville Turnbaugh, Seattle, will b
the National Labor Relations Board
representative in charge of the cleo
ton. He will arrive in the Flathead
Sunday. There will be a Sunday 4 /,
p. M conference between Turn
baugh and AT of L, Clio and Ana .
conda representatives as to conduct
of the election.
The Hungry Horse News was in
telephone contact with the office of
Senator Mike Mansfield, whom We
asked to help keep us posted. Mans
fields office contacted the sources
of information. We also talked to
Thomas Graham, Seattle, regional
officer in charge for the National
Labor Relations Board.
ELIGIBLE TO VOTE
Eligible to vote will be employees
on the Anaconda payroll during the
last full payroll period preceding
date of the NLRB NOV. 81 order in
Washington, D. C. that an election
| be held. This means employees of
record before Nov. l.
Eligible to vote will be: "AII pro-
dvction and maintenance employees
' EXCLUDING office clerical employ
2 es, superintendent clerks, office
ianitoresses, executives chavffers,
J. fulI-time safety and first aid en-
e pIoyes, laboratory and control tech-
/ nicians, professional employees,
b guards and supervisors as defined IN
the (NLRB) act"
/ Those who will vote are the hourly
/ paid people while the exclusion for
S the most part indicates those paid
on monthly salary.
l. Of the over 500 employees at the
n plant about 400 are eligible to vote.
ell Results c3 the electi$a van be an.
nounced after ballots are cosHnfed.
a OBJECTION POSSIBILITY
o The Go Steelworkers, AT OF 1
!. Aluminium Workers or Anaconda
!. Aluminium company each have five
:, days after the election to file OBJ.
d jections, if any If no objections arr
filed, Graham will issue certificate
e in the name of the National Labor
e Relations Board certifying the union
l. Tor no union) chosen to be bargain
Il ing agent at the plant in wage ne.
S gotiations, working conditions and
l. other factors concerning employees.
If the election is close, it can b
f expected that there will be challena
/, ed ballots such as man considered
J, part of the supervisory staff vot.
), ing. Graham's office will then maho
: an investigation. a
Past developments include thu
II Sept. 16 hearing in the courthouse al
n Kalispen before Melton Boyd, rep.
n resentative of the NLRB.
At this hearing the Anaconda com
is pany, AT of L Aluminium Workers
e and International Union of Mine
Mill and Smelter Workers each az
is reed to an immediate election to picl
IS the bargaining agent.
t. The CLIO SteelWOrkerS felt the plan
al was not ready for an election AMI
a their stipulated consent was b
have the National Labor Relation,
le Board in Washington, D. c.. decide
u if the plant was ready for an cleo
in ton. This delayed the election about
s six weeks.
Or The board in Washington reached
ne its decision Nov. 8, and directed tina
le an election be held at the AAC plan
a within 80 days.
n NLRB DECISIONS
n In its decision the National Labor
Relations Board said: "Steelworker,
contend that no election should b
lis conducted until the employer ha'
as achieved full production. We find m
rk merit in this contention. The recors
y, shows that, although full production
IT. had not been achieved at the time o
a. the hearing, full complement o
10 workers was currently employed. Tn
b. (Please fvrn TO page
n n Al NSM.7