Cole, David L. Arbitration Transcripts, 1958
Collection Number: 5115
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
David L. Cole Arbitration Transcripts, 1958
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
5115
Abstract:
An agreement between the parties provided that any issues in dispute would be submitted
to a Board of Arbitration. This dispute arose when the parties were unable to agree
upon a new wage scale at the wage interim reopening on a two year contract running
from April 27, 1956 to April 27, 1958. The Board was composed of David L. Cole, Chairman,
Edward D. Becker for the publishers and Woodward L. Cannon for the union. Hearings
were held in Los Angeles on February 3 through February 6, 1958. The issue was: "What
adjustments shall be made in salaries set forth in Schedules I-V of Section VIII of
the Agreement as modified on November 27, 1957.
Creator:
Cole, David L.
Quanitities:
0.5 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English
David Lawrence Cole was a graduate of Harvard University (BS., 1921) and Fairleigh
Dickinson University (LL.B., 1924, LL.D., 1964.) Although he practiced law in Paterson,
N.J. from 1926 until his death as senior partner in the law firm of Cole, Berman &
Belksy, David Cole will chiefly be remembered for a distinguished career as a government
arbitrator and mediator. In this field he served on numerous state and federal boards
and in various governmental agencies. Cole was chairman of the New Jersey State Board
of Mediation; a public member of Region 2, United States War Labor Board; and chairman
of the Presidential Boards of Inquiry in the bituminous coal industry (1948) and in
the longshore industry (1953, 1968). Cole was also a member or chairman of numerous
Presidential Emergency Boards which settled disputes in the railroad and airline industries
(1948-1958); the chairman of the conciliation service for the New York City transit
service (1961-1965); director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (1952-1953);
chairman of the New Jersey Governor's Committee on Public Utility Strike Service (1952-1953);
member of the President's Labor-Management Advisory Committee (1961-1964); and member
of the New York Governor's Public Employee Relations Committee (1966-1968), which
established the New York State Public Employee Relations Board. Cole was also appointed
as chairman of the President's Commission on Industrial Peace in 1973.
Beyond his public service, Mr. Cole was active as a counsel for employer groups in
the textile industry (1926-1942) and as an impartial chairman for other labor-management
contract disputes. He was also impartial arbitrator for the AFL-CIO Internal Disputes
Plan (1954-1976), served as a visiting professor at the New York State School of Industrial
and Labor Relations at Cornell University (1954-1955) and was Kestenbaum lecturer
at Harvard in 1962. Mr. Cole was the author of INDUSTRIAL PEACE (1963).
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David L. Cole Arbitration Transcripts #5115. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation
and Archives, Cornell University Library.
Related Collections: 5588: David L. Cole Papers
Names:
Cole, David L. (David Lawrence), 1902-1978.
Hearst Publishing Company, Inc. Los Angeles Examiner Division
Los Angeles Editorial Association No. 21241
Subjects:
Wages -- Publishing industry employees -- California -- Los Angeles
Collective labor agreements -- Printing industry -- California -- Los Angeles
Arbitration, Industrial -- California -- Los Angeles
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 |
Transcription of Arbitration: Volume 1
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1958 |
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Scope and Contents
February 3, 1958
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| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Transcription of Arbitration: Volume 2
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1958 |
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Scope and Contents
February 4, 1958
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| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Transcription of Arbitration: Volume 3
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1958 |
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Scope and Contents
February 5, 1958
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| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Transcription of Arbitration: Volume 4
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1958 |
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Scope and Contents
February 6, 1958
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