Guide to the United States Emergency Board No. 138 Transcript of Proceedings and Exhibits,
1950-1961

Collection Number: 5058

Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library

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Date completed:
2000
EAD encoding:
September 3, 2002
July 08, 2008

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DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
United States. Emergency Board No. 138. Transcript of proceedings and exhibits, 1950-1961.
Collection Number:
5058
Creator:
United States. Emergency Board No. 138.
Quantity:
1 linear foot.
Forms of Material:
Transcript of proceedings and exhibits.
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Martin P. Catherwood Library, Cornell University.
Abstract:
Transcript of proceedings and exhibits of the Emergency Board No. 138, 1961. Southern Pacific Company (Pacific Lines) vs. Order of Railroad Telegraphers, 1950-1961.
Includes transcripts of proceedings (14 vol.); carrier exhibits including maps, agreements, statistics on population, income, comparative railroad revenue, passenger and freight statistics, data on fringe benefits, social security, railroad unemployment, insurance and other data for Class 1 railroads (1950-1959); employees' exhibits including statistics on agencies closed and union positions abolished on the Southern Pacific Railroad, employment and productivity trends, employment stabilization agreements, and rules prohibiting or controlling contracting out of work, among other matters.
Language:
Collection material in English

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

U.S. Emergency Board No. 138 was created in 1961 by President Kennedy in response to a strike called by the Order of Railroad Telegraphers against the Southern Pacific Railroad Co.

A dispute arose when the Telegraphers, in response to severe job cutbacks due to abandonments and automation, requested that no position in existence as of April 1st, 1958 be abolished or discontinued except by agreement between the carrier and the Telegraphers. The union invoked mediation because the parties were unable to come to any agreement. Before the mediation efforts were exhausted, the Telegraphers proposed rules which barred unilateral transfer of any functions, work and positions performed or held by telegraphers; required payment of severence pay to displaced workers? and guaranteed a certain minimum to telegraphers when they consented to the merger or consolidation of jobs. Negotiations were continued but when no agreement was reached, the Telegraphers successfully requested the service of the National Mediation Board again.

The Board was appointed in July and met that month and the following August. Reporting in September, the Board concluded that the union's position as stated was "Neither a practical nor realistic solution to the problem of employee displacement" and recommended that the carrier and union agree to protections for adversely affected employees, including dismissal pay, moving expenses and property loss allowances.
SUBJECTS

Names:
United States. Emergency Board No. 138
Order of Railroad Telegraphers (U.S.)
Southern Pacific Company.

Subjects:
Arbitration, Industrial--United States--Sources.
Railroads--Employees--Labor unions--United States--Sources.

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United States. Emergency Board No. 138. Transcript of proceedings and exhibits, 1950-1961. #5058. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
COLLECTION ARRANGEMENT

Arranged by type of document.
Date
Description
Container
I. Transcripts
14 volumes. 2018 pages.
 Box 1 Folder Bd. v.
II. Carrier's Exhibits
1. Map - Southern Pacific Lines in red
 Box 1 Folder 1
2. Maintenance of Way Agreement and notice in connection therewith
 Box 1 Folder 2
3. Decision of the Public Utility Commission of Oregon, Order No. 37014.
 Box 1 Folder 3
Covering the application of Southern Pacific Company for authority to withdraw its agent at Brownsville, Oregon
4. Map of Southern Pacific Company (Pacific Lines), Coast Division, indicating location of Vandenberg Mr Force Base
 Box 1 Folder 4
5. Population, Income, Railroad Revenue, Return on Investment for Industry, Passenger and Freight Statistics, Material Prices, and other related information.
Box 1 Folder 5
6. Classifications according to ICC Group Number.
Box 1 Folder 6
6. Southern Pacific number of employees in ICC Group VI, Transportation
 Box 1 Folder 7
7. Reporting Divisions 111 through 128,  Excerpts from various reports - 8 pages
 Box 1 Folder 8
8. Retirement, Sickness Benefits, Social Security, Railroad Unemployment, Insurance Statistics
 Box 1 Folder 9
9. Pictures - Centralized Traffic Control
 Box 1 Folder 10
10. Pictures - Centralized Traffic Control - Interlocks
 Box 1 Folder 11
11. "Agency Closings"
 Box 1 Folder 12
12. Clerks' Agreement
 Box 1 Folder 13
13. Board awards
 Box 1 Folder 14
14. Book - Statement of Claims, Employee's Statement. Hearings
 Box 1 Folder 15
15. Case No. A-1146 - CTC
 Box 1 Folder 16
16. Rule requested by the SUNA, together with an employee protection agreement requested by the clerks
 Box 1 Folder 17
1954
17. List of Western Railroads which did not have any dualizing agreements as of June 8, 1954
 Box 1 Folder 18
1950-1959
18. Composite income account, balance sheet and other statistics of Class I Railroads Including switching and terminal companies for the years 1950-1959
Box 1 Folder 19
1951-1960
19. Southern Pacific operating ratio compared with operating ratios of Class I Railroads during period 1951 to 1960
 Box 1 Folder 20
20. Ratio of Southern Pacific as compared to Class I Railroads - net railway operating income
 Box 1 Folder 21
III. Employees' Exhibits
1. "History of the Disputes"
 Box 1 Folder 22
2. Agencies Closed and ORT Positions abolished on the Southern Pacific Company."
 Box 1 Folder 23
3. "Employment and Output Trends, Southern Pacific Company and Class I Line - Haul Railways."
 Box 1 Folder 24
4. "The Public Interest in Transportation Service."
 Box 1 Folder 25
5. "Excerpts from Carrier Presentation to Emergency Board No. 106."
 Box 1 Folder 26
6. "Work within the scope of the ORT-Southern Pacific Company Agreement transferred to other Personnel."
Box 1 Folder 27
7. "Employment Stabilization Agreements and understandings in the railroad industry.
Box 1 Folder 28
8. "Examples of Dualization Agreements made by the Order of Railroad Telegraphers with various Carriers."
Box 1 Folder 29
9. "Employment Stabilization Agreements in Other American Industries."
 Box 1 Folder 30
10. "Rules prohibiting or controlling contracting out of work."
 Box 1 Folder 31
11. "Employee Protection in the Railroad Industry."
 Box 1 Folder 32
11. Agreement for Employee Protection as result of merger of Norfolk and Western Railway Company and the Virginian Railway Company.
Box 1 Folder 33
12. "Financial position of the Southern Pacific Company."
 Box 1 Folder 34
13. Award of Special Board of Adjustment No, 327 - Case Number 1.
 Box 1 Folder 35
14. Award of Special Board of Adjustment No. 327 - Case Number 2.
 Box 1 Folder 36
15. Award of Special Board of Adjustment No. 327 - Case Number 3.
 Box 1 Folder 37
16. Interstate Commerce Commission Form M-300.
 Box 1 Folder 38
IV. Joint Exhibit
1. Agreement between Southern Pacific Company and employees represented by Order of Railroad Telegraphers.
Box 1 Folder 39