New York State Board of Mediation and Arbitration Smith, Gray and Company (Brooklyn,
NY) Records, 1899
Collection Number: 5096
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
New York State Board of Mediation and Arbitration Smith, Gray and Company (Brooklyn,
NY) Records, 1899
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
5096
Abstract:
Transcript of hearing before the New York State Board of Mediation and Arbitration
concerning Smith, Gray & Co., Brooklyn, New York and the employees of Smith, Gray
& Co. represented by the Amalgamated Association of Clothing Cutters and Trimmers
and Garment Workers of America.
Creator:
New York State Board of Mediation and Arbitration
Quanitities:
0.33 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English
The board in this case was composed of Henry C. Johnson, chairman, W. H.H. Webster
and William Purcell with Thomas A. Braniff as secretary. Under the provisions of Chapter
415 of the Laws of 1897 the Board was empowered to investigate and make public the
facts in a labor dispute.
This is a transcript of a hearing before the N.Y.S. Board of Mediation and Arbitration
composed of Henry C. Johnson, chairman, W. H.H. Webster and William Purcell with Thomas
A. Braniff as secretary*. Under the provisions of Chapter 415 of the Laws of 1897
the Board was empowered to investigate and make public the facts in a labor dispute.
The Board began its investigation on February 27, 1899 as a result of an anonymous
letter which it received. The company had discharged two foremen, one with twenty,
the other with fifteen years service and hired a new man. Mr. McLaughlin immediately
introduced price cuts and began treating the man in a very abusive manner with the
results that the men walked out. Several other unions in New York boycotted the products
of the company when it replaced the strikers with non-union men.
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New York State Board of Mediation and Arbitration Smith, Gray and Company (Brooklyn,
NY) Records #5096. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell
University Library.
Names:
New York State. Board of Mediation and Arbitration
Smith, Gray & Company
Amalgamated Ladies' Garment Cutters' Union
Subjects:
Women's clothing industry - New York (State)
Labor unions - Clothing workers - New York (State)
Clothing workers - New York (State)
Unfair labor practices - New York (State)
Employees, Dismissal of - New York (State)
Arbitration, Industrial - New York (State)
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Proceedings of the Board of Mediation and Arbitration of the State of New York
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Proceedings of the Board of Mediation and Arbitration of the State of New York
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