New York State Board of Mediation and Arbitration Yonkers Railroad Company Records, 1913
Collection Number: 5099
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
New York State Board of Mediation and Arbitration Yonkers Railroad Company Records, 1913
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
5099
Abstract:
Records relating to an investigation of the strike of the employees of the the Yonkers
Railroad.
Creator:
New York State Board of Mediation and Arbitration
Yonkers Railroad Company
Quanitities:
0.33 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English
Mr. William C. Rogers was appointed by the Commissioner of Labor to investigate the
strike on the Yonkers Railroad Company, the street car system for the city of Yonkers.
Serving with him were Mr. M. J. Reagan and Mr. James McManus. The Board held hearings
in Yonkers on January 10, 11, 1913.
The Yonkers Railroad Company had been in the hands of a receiver for five years,
and during the time of the receivership the employees had been unable to secure a
written contract since the court had said that the receiver did not have the power
to sign such a contract. During this period, however, the receiver had agreed to abide
by the contract verbally and had done so. One feature of the agreement was that only
Yonkers men would be hired, and this was perpetuated in a city ordinance which required
a new man to have 15 hours of instruction before he could take a car out alone.
In January of 1913 the president of the reorganized company sent a man to the Yonkers
Railroad with instructions to the superintendent that he be hired. The superintendent
asked that certain men instruct the new man, and when they refused he fired them.
The union upheld the men and workers walked off the job saying that management had
repudiated the contract. However, no written contract had been signed since the president
refused when it had been presented to him earlier in 1912.
This collection consists of the transcript of proceedings before the State of New
York Board of Mediation and Arbitration's Investigation of Strike of Employees of
Yonkers Railroad Company, January 10 and 11, 1913, along with related photographs.
Witnesses included Frederick Whitridge, William Fitzgerald, Charles Lange, Edward
Maher, and Leslie Sutherland.
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New York State Board of Mediation and Arbitration Yonkers Railroad Company Records
#5099. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University
Library.
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Names:
Yonkers Railroad Co.
Subjects:
Strikes and lockouts -- Railroads -- New York (State) -- Yonkers
Railroads -- Employees -- New York (State) -- Yonkers
Railroads -- Employees -- Labor unions -- New York (State) -- Yonkers
Collective labor agreements -- Railroads -- New York (State) -- Yonkers
Unfair labor practices -- New York (State) -- Yonkers
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Investigation of strike of employees of the Yonkers Railroad Company
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1913 |
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Scope and Contents
Includes photographs; transcript, January 10 and 11, 1913, 232 pages.
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