Eastern, Western and Southeastern Carriers Conference Committee and the Railway Labor Organization Briefs and Awards, 1952
Collection Number: 5071

Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Eastern, Western and Southeastern Carriers Conference Committee and the Railway Labor Organization Briefs and Awards, 1952
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
5071
Abstract:
Briefs, summations, arguments, memoranda, and awards pertaining to the Eastern, Western and Southeastern Carriers' Conference Committees and Operating and Nonoperating Railway Labor Organizations.
Creator:
Eastern, Western and Southeastern Carriers Conference Committee
Railway Labor Organization
Quanitities:
0.5 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English

Biographical / Historical

The foundation for this proceedings was to be found in a so-called moratorium provision in the agreements signed by the parties in 1951 and 1952. The moratoruim provided for wage adjustments when the wage stabilization policy permitted so-called annual improvement wage increases. A referee was to be appointed by the President if the parties were unable to agree that a wage increase was justified. The President appointed Paul N. Guthrie as referee on December 1, 1952. The referee decided that this proceeding had power to determine only three issues. First, whether further wage increases were justified; second, If so, what such increases should be; and third, the effective date thereof. Hearings were held and voluminous data accumulated according to the report, but this collection contains only the printed items listed below.

The foundation for this proceedings was to be found in a so-called moratorium provision in the agreements signed by the parties in 1951 and 1952. The moratoruim provided for wage adjustments when the wage stabilization policy permitted so-called annual improvement wage increases. A referee was to be appointed by the President if the parties were unable to agree that a wage increase was justified. The President appointed Paul N. Guthrie as referee on December 1, 1952.
The referee decided that this proceeding had power to determine only three issues.
First: "Whether further wage increases are
justified."
Second: "If so, what such increases should be." Third: And the effective date thereof.
Hearings were held and voluminous data accumulated according to the report, but the collection contains only the printed items that follow.
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Preferred Citation

Eastern, Western and Southeastern Carriers Conference Committee and the Railway Labor Organization Briefs and Awards #5071. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.

Related Materials

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SUBJECTS

Names:
Guthrie, Paul M.
Eastern, Western & Southeastern Carriers'
Subjects:
Collective bargaining -- Railroads
Wages -- Railroads

CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
Box 1 Folder 1
Brief for the carriers
Scope and Contents
65 pages
Box 1 Folder 2
Summation and Argument for the carriers
Scope and Contents
35 pages
Box 1 Folder 3
Brief of the operating and non-operating brotherhoods
Scope and Contents
54 pages
Box 1 Folder 4
Referee's Memorandum and Award
Scope and Contents
21 pages