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Show 170,000 Await Ballot In Labor Elections WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 (AP) Balloting in collective bargaining elections will reach new high volume In the next two montht, Involving about 170,000 workers In three major Industrie automobile, rubber and power. The Moor board reported today' that 1,036.813 valid votes had been cast In 3831 elections since passage of the Wagner act setting up machinery ma-chinery to give labor representation representa-tion of Ha choosing. In a forthcoming General Motors election, 133,000 workers In 59 plants In 11 states are expected to be eligible to participate. It will be the biggest Industrial election elec-tion ever held. A specal NLRB office In Detroit Is projected to handle It. Orders for elections In General Motors, Consolidated Edison and Consumers' Power company have yet to be Issued by the board, but the way has been cleared for them. The Consolidated Edison vote, with an estimated 40,000 workers In seven plants serving New York City 'participating, will be the largest ever held In a public utility firm. trary is shown, the board will Issue sn order within a few days for an election among the 2500 employes of the statewide Consumers' Power system In Michigan. Elections already have been ordered or-dered among 2500 workers of the United States Rubber company at Passaic, N. J, and Providence, R. I- and among 3000 to 3000 employes em-ployes In the Hood Rubber company com-pany at Watertown, Mass. For the first time In the General Motors election, the board aaid, a single vote will be taken on the question of having one union represent rep-resent virtually all the rank and file of workers of a big Interstate corporation. , The major choice of the voters will be between the rival A F L and CIO units of the United Automobile Workers or between them and no union at all. In Consolidated Edison, which now baa an A F L contract, the vote probably will be among the International Brotherhood of Electrical Elec-trical Workers (A F L), the Amalgamated Amal-gamated Utility Workers (C I O), an Independent union, and no union. |