U.S. Emergency Board No. 81 Records, 1950
Collection Number: 5037
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
U.S. Emergency Board No. 81 Records, 1950
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
5037
Abstract:
Consist of carrier and employee exhibits; awards, reports, etc.; also documents pertaining
to the General Rules Movement.
Creator:
U.S. Emergency Board
Quanitities:
2 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English
An Executive order of the President dated February 24, 1950 resulted in the appointment
of a board composed of Hon. Roger I. McDonough, justice, Supreme Court of Utah, Chairman,
Hon. Mart J. O'Malley former justice, Supreme Court of Indiana; and Professor Gordon
S. Watkins, University of California. Public hearings were held in Chicago, Illinois,
beginning March 2, 1950, through May 9, 1950 the record consisting of 49 volumes of
8,385 pages, and 143 exhibits.
Upon stipulation of the parties and approval of the President, two extensions of
time were granted, allowing to June 15, 1950, for rendition of the Board's report
to the President.
The emergency precipitating the establishment of this- board resulted from the announced
intention of the employees represented by the two organizations, to withdraw from
the service of the railroads represented by the Carriers' Conference Committees, in
connection with their demands for proposed new rules and changes in existing rules
governing working conditions affecting primarily conductors, trainmen, yard service
employees, and certain dining car and other groups of employees, altogether about
180,000 employees of the nation's major railroads.
The issues were numerous and complex, involving such matters as the 40-hour workweek;
differentials for car retarder operators, footboard yardmasters, and baggage-men handling
United States mail; graduated rate of pay tables in all classes of service; the restoration
of the standard wage rates between territories; and modification of other rules. Also
involved were carriers' proposals to change pay provisions, rules, regulations, interpretations,
and practices pertaining to the 40-hour workweek (if recommended) interdivisional,
and intradivisional runs; pooling of cabooses; switching limits; and numerous other
proposals.
On June 15, 1950, the board made its report to the President, recommending a 5-day,
40-hour basic workweek for railroad yard service employees, with an increase in basic
rates of pay of 18 cents per hour, effective October 1, 1950. Upward adjustments in
rates of pay for car retarder operators, footboard yardmasters and baggagemen handling
United States mail were also recommended. The board recommended the withdrawal of
a number of other proposals of the organizations, including one which called for a
graduated basis of pay for road conductors and trainmen. The board also recommended
against the establishment of a 100-mile, 5-hour basic day in passenger service to
replace the 150-mile, 7 1/2-hour basic day. Among the changes in rules proposed by
the railroads, the board recommended that the carriers and the organizations negotiate
revisions in rules to permit interdivisional runs, pooling of cabooses, and changes
in yard switching limits; redefinition of rules covering coupling and uncoupling air
hoses; inclusion of a rule covering rate of pay for work performed in more than one
class of service in a tour of duty, and change in reporting for duty rules. It recommended
the withdrawal of other carrier proposed rules changes.
During the course of the hearings in this case, two additional disputes on similar
issues were referred to this same board by the President. (See Emergency Boards Nos.
83 and 84).
Consist of carrier and employee exhibits; awards, reports, etc.; also documents pertaining
to the General Rules Movement.
Records include carrier exhibits dealing with work rules, wage rates and differentials,
hours of work, the history of the diesel rules movement, and working conditions. Employee
exhibits include statistics on then existing economic conditions in the U.S., hours
and wages in other industries, productivity comparisons, and studies of the impact
of dieselization on the industry and the workforce and studies of safety matters.
Also miscellaneous documents of unknown origin relating to the questions considered
by this Board.
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Procedures for Document Use.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
U.S. Emergency Board No. 81 Records #5037. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation
and Archives, Cornell University Library.
Names:
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
Eastern Carriers' Conference Committee
Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen
Order of Railway Conductors of America
Southeastern Carriers' Conference Committee
United States. Emergency Board No. 81.
Western Carriers' Conference Committee
Subjects:
Mediation and conciliation, Industrial--United States--Cases.
Wages and labor productivity--United States.
Railroad conductors.
Railroads -- Employees
Hours of labor. Mediation and conciliation, Industrial. United States.
Industrial safety. Mediation and conciliation, Industrial. United States.
Labor productivity. Mediation and conciliation, Industrial. United States.
Mediation and conciliation, Industrial. Railroads. United States.
Railroads. Safety regulations. United States.
Railroads. United States. Dieselization.
Wages. Mediation and conciliation, Industrial. United States.
Wages. Railroads. United States.
Work rules. Railroads. United States.
Working conditions. Mediation and conciliation, Industrial. United States.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Conductors' and Trainmen's 40 Hour Week and Rules Case, Carriers' Exhibit B, History
of the General Rules Movement Involving the Class I Rail carriers and Their Engine,
Train, and Yard Service Employees
|
1960 |
Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Conductors' and Trainmen's 40 Hour Week and Rules Case, Carriers' Exhibit C, Statutes,
Awards and Agreements Involved in the Great Rules Movements
|
1950 |
Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Conductors' and Trainmen's 40 Hour Week and Rules case, Carriers' Exhibit D, Misc.
Reports, Awards, Agreements, and Interpretations Involving Wages and Working Conditions
of Railroad Employees
|
1950 |
Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Conductors' and Trainmen's 40 Hour Week and Rules Case, Carriers' Exhibit 19, L. W.
Horning, Basic Day and Overtime Rule in Passenger Service
|
1950 |
Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Conductors' and Trainmen's 40-Hour Week and Rules Case, Carriers' Exhibit 16, Use
of Road Crews to Perform Work in Yard
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1950 |
Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Conductors' and Trainmen's 40-Hour Week and Rules Case, Carriers' Exhibit 4, History
of The Diesel Rules Movement
|
1950 |
Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Conductor's and Trainmen's 40-Hour Week and Rules Case, Carriers' Exhibit E, 40-Hour
Work Week for Railroad Employees and for Railway Express Agency Employees
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1950 |
Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Emergency Board No. 81, Case A-3290, Carriers Represented by Eastern, Western, and
Southeastern Carriers' Conference Committees and Order of Railway Conductors Brotherhood
of Railroad Trainmen
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1950 |
Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Conductors' and Trainmen's 40-Hour Week and Rules Case, Carriers' Exhibit A, The Proposals
of the Parties and The Issues Before the Board
|
1950 |
Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Conductors' and trainmen's 40-Hour Week and Rules Case, Carriers' Exhibit No. 5, Witness:
GP Brock
|
1950 |
Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Conductors' and Trainmen's 40-Hour Week and Rules Case, Carriers' Exhibit No. 3, Witness:
JM Budd
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1950 |
Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Conductors' and Trainmen's 40-Hour Week and Rules Case, Carriers' Exhibit No. 2, Witness:
JM Symes
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1950 |
Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Conductors' and trainmen's 40-Hour Week and Rules Case, Carriers' Exhibit 15, Use
of Trainmen and Yardmen to Couple and Uncouple Hose, Chain and Unchain Cars and Make
Air Tests
|
1950 |
Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Conductors' and Trainmen's 40-Hour Week and Rules Case, Carriers' Exhibit 14, Rate
of Pay for Footboard Yardmaster
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1950 |
Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Conductor's and Trainmen's 40-Hour Week and Rules Case, Carriers' Exhibit 13, Rate
of Pay for Car Retarder Operators
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1950 |
Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Conductors' and Trainmen's 40 Hour Week and Rules Case, Carriers' Exhibit 12, Penalty
Pay for Work on Sundays and Holidays in Yard Service
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1950 |
Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Conductors and Trainmen's 40 Hour Week and Rules Case, Carriers' Exhibit 11, Starting
Time for Yard Crews
|
1950 |
Box 1 | Folder 18 |
Conductors' and Trainmen's 40 Hour Week and Rules Case, Carriers' Exhibit, 10-a, Witness:
DP Loomis, Appendices Referred to in Carriers Exhibit Entitled 48 Hours Pay for 40
Hours of Work
|
1950 |
Box 1 | Folder 19 |
Conductors' and Trainmen 40 Hour Week and Rules Case, Carriers' Exhibit, DP Loomis,
48 Hours Pay for 40 Hours of Work
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1950 |
Box 1 | Folder 20 |
Conductors' and Trainmen's 40 Hour Week and Rules Case, Carriers' Exhibit 9, Witness:
DP Loomis, Rates of Pay for Yard Service Employees
|
1950 |
Box 1 | Folder 21 |
Conductor's and Trainmen's 40 Hour Week and Rules Case, Carriers' Exhibit 8, Duties
of Firemen on Diesel Locomotives, Employees' Exhibit No. 66, Firemen's Diesel Case
|
1950 |
Box 1 | Folder 22 |
Conductor's and Trainmen's 40-Hour Week and Rules Case, Carrier's Exhibit 7 Duties
of Enginemen in Diesel Engine Rooms, Employees Exhibit No. 17, Engineers' Diesel Case
|
1950 |
Box 1 | Folder 23 |
Conductor's and Trainmen's 40 Hour Week and Rules Case, Carriers' Exhibit 6, Duties
of Engineer and Assistant on Diesel Locomotives, Employees' Exhibit No. 15, Engineers'
Diesel Case
|
1950 |
Box 1 | Folder 24 |
Conductors' and Trainmen's 40-Hour Week and Rules Case, Carriers' Exhibit 38, Financial
Condition of the Railroads
|
1950 |
Box 1 | Folder 25 |
Conductors' and Trainmen's 40-Hour Week and Rules Case, Carriers' Exhibit 38, Witness:
J. Elmer Monroe, Financial Condition of the Railroads
|
1950 |
Box 1 | Folder 26 |
Conductors' and trainmen's 40-Hour Week and Rules Case, Carriers' Exhibit no. 35,
Safety
|
1950 |
Box 1 | Folder 27 |
Conductors' and Trainmen's 40-Hour Week and Rules Case, Carriers' Exhibit No. 31,
LD Comer
|
1950 |
Box 1 | Folder 28 |
Conductors' and Trainmen's 40 Hour Week and Rules Case, Carriers' Exhibit 30, Witness:
LD Comer, Right of Management to Fix the Time of Reporting For Road Crews
|
1950 |
Box 1 | Folder 29 |
Conductors' and Trainmen's 40-Hour Week and Rules Case, Carriers' Exhibit 29, Additional
pay for Initial Terminal
|
1950 |
Box 1 | Folder 30 |
Conductors' and trainmen's 40-Hour Week and Rules case, Carriers' Exhibit 28, Witness:
LD Comer, Pay For Expenses Away From Home
|
1950 |
Box 1 | Folder 31 |
Conductors' and Trainmen's 40-Hour Week and Rules Case, Carriers' Exhibit No. 23,
Witness: DC Raffensparger
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1950 |
Box 1 | Folder 32 |
Conductors' and trainmen's 40-Hour Week and Rules Case, Carriers' Exhibit 20, Witness:
LW Horning, Overtime Rate in Passenger Service
|
1950 |
Box 1 | Folder 33 |
Conductors' and Trainmen's 40 Hour Week and Rules Case, Carriers' Exhibit 18, Witness:
JJ Sullivan, Road Employees Performing More Than One Class of Road Service
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1950 |
Box 1 | Folder 34 |
Emergency Board No. 81, Case A-3290, Carriers Represented by Eastern, Western, and
Southeastern Carriers' Conference Committees and Order of Railway Conductors, Brotherhood
of Railroad Trainmen, Brief on Behalf of the Carriers
|
1950 |
Box 1 | Folder 35 |
Conductors and Trainmen's 40 Hour Week and Rules Case, Carriers' Exhibit No. 1
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1950 |
Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Index to Opening Case of Order of Railway Conductors and Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
|
1949 |
Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Employees' Exhibit Nos. 1-7
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1949 |
Box 2 | Folder 3 |
Employees Exhibits Nos. 8-12
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Box 2 | Folder 4 |
Employees Exhibits Nos. 13-19
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Box 2 | Folder 5 |
Employees Exhibits Nos. 20-25
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Box 2 | Folder 6 |
Employees Exhibit Nos. 26-30
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Box 2 | Folder 7 |
Employees Exhibits Nos. 30-40
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Box 2 | Folder 8 |
Employees Exhibits Nos. 41-48
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1949 |
Box 2 | Folder 9 |
Employees Exhibits Nos. 49-55
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Box 2 | Folder 10 |
Index to Carriers' Case Employees' Rebuttal and Closing Arguments
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1949 |
Box 2 | Folder 11 |
Employees' Rebuttal Exhibit Nos. 57-62
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1948-1950 |
Box 2 | Folder 12 |
Employees' Rebuttal Exhibit Nos. 63-69
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1949 |
Box 2 | Folder 13 |
Employees' Exhibit Nos. 76-86
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