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Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives
Martin P. Catherwood Library 227 Ives Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3183 Fax: (607) 255-9641 kheel_center@cornell.edu http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/kheel |
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Kheel Center Staff
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EAD encoding:
Casey S. Westerman, January 21, 2003
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© 2003 Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library
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I. General case files, 1913-1946 [bulk 1942-1946].
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1. Bethlehem Steel Company et al (Little Steel
Companies) vs. Steel Workers Organizing Committee: reports and documents,
1913-1942.
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Consist of materials of the U.S. National War Labor Board
pertaining to the settlement of the "Little Steel Companies Case." The "Little
Steel Companies Case" involved the Steel Workers Organizing Committee vs. the
Bethlehem Steel Company (1942) on the issue of wages; vs. the Inland Steel
Company (1942) on the issues of wages and productivity; and vs. the Republic
Steel Corporation and the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company on issues of wages,
checkoff, and closed shop. Materials include statements, answers, and briefs of
the union and companies; reports and recommendations of the Board; annual
reports of the Bethlehem Steel Company (1939-1941), Inland Steel Company
(1939-1941) Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company (1940-1942), and the Republic
Steel Corporation (1940-1941). Also, manuscript memoranda and notes concerning
wages and hours of work, technological change, prices, and wages in the steel
industry; bulletins pertaining to hours of work, inflation, union security and
productivity; directives and orders of the Board on wage stabilization; and
correspondence of various panel members and representatives of the union and
companies pertaining to the hearings and case dispositions (1913-1942).
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The "Little Steel Companies Case" involved a wage dispute case
between the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (forerunner of the United
Steelworkers of America) and various steel enterprises. The Little Steel
Formula, which became the anti-inflationary wage adjustment criterion adopted
by the War Labor Board, was derived through this case.
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2. Bituminous coal industry hearings : transcripts and
related documents, 1943.
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Consist of verbatim transcripts (May 6, 7, 10, 1943) of a
factfinding panel of the U.S. War Labor Board concerning the failure of
contract negotiations between the Operators' Negotiating Committee, the
Appalachian Joint Conference and the Southern Appalachian Joint Conference,
representing bituminous coal mine operators, and the United Mine Workers of
America (UMW), as well as related documents. The stalemate resulted in numerous
strikes. Also verbatim transcripts of public hearings before the War Labor
Board in the case of the Illinois Coal Operators' Association and the UMW
(August 3, 1943) requested jointly by the parties for approval of their
agreement. Also subsequent public hearings on that agreement, requested by the
Southern Appalachian Joint Wage Conference and the Operators' Negotiating
Committee (October 21, 22, 1943), in which these groups protested portions of
the Illinois agreement which they said set an unworkable pattern of bargaining
for the industry. Finally, a verbatim transcript of public hearings before the
Board in the case of wildcat strikes by members of UMW, District 20 in Alabama
(October 23-24, 1943).
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3. Electrical Transcription Manufacturers vs. American
Federation of Musicians : reports and documents, 1944.
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Consist of documents relating to the National War Labor
Board case of the American Federation of Musicians vs. the Electrical
Transcription Manufacturers (1944) on the issues of technological change, work
stoppage, layoff, and terms and conditions of employment.
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Documents consist of reports and recommendations of the
Mediation Panel; briefs and statements submitted on behalf of the parties;
memoranda, manuscript notes and correspondence regarding employment and layoffs
of musicians, recording contracts and dispute settlement; newsletters and
bulletins of the American Federation of Musicians; and a report of James
Petrillo (president, American Federation of Musicians) on collective
negotiations.
Also, letters of Neville Miller (president, National Association
of Broadcasters) with various federal agencies, including the U.S. Department
of Agriculture and Federal Communications Commission, regarding recorded music
and the war effort; correspondence of the Electrical Transcription
Manufacturers with volunteer organizations regarding the war effort, music, and
shortage of phonodiscs; correspondence of various National War Labor Board
panel members with executives of the Electrical Transcription Manufacturers and
representatives of the American Federation of Musicians regarding hearings,
proposals for collective negotiations, recommendations of the Mediation Panel,
and employee status of musicians as independent contractors (1944).
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4. Western Union Telegraph Company vs. American
Communications Association : proceedings, reports and documents, 1942-1944.
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Consist primarily of documents generated by the National
War Labor Board pertaining to Western Union Telegraph Company vs. American
Communications Association (1942-1944) on the issues of wages, wage adjustment,
shift differentials, vacation, holiday pay, military leave, and workers'
rights.
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Materials include transcripts of hearings; reports and
recommendations of the Mediation Panel; answers, briefs, and statements on
behalf of the parties; collective agreements; memoranda and notes concerning
history of the dispute and wage parity; and correspondence, chiefly of Arthur
S. Meyer (member, Mediation Panel) with executives of the company and
representatives of the union regarding hearings conduct and collective
negotiations.
Also, documents of the National War Labor Board and the Federal
Communications Commission pertaining to the merger of the Postal Cable Company
and Western Union Telegraph Company (1943); also arbitration awards, decisions
and miscellaneous documents for cases arbitrated by Meyer, concerning Postal
Telegraph Cable Company vs. American Communications Association on issues of
union shop, grievance and arbitration procedure, technological change, and
collective agreement (1943).
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5. Waterfront Employers' Association of the Pacific
Coast vs. International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union : proceedings,
reports and documents, 1944-1946.
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Consist of documents pertaining to the National War Labor
Board case of the Waterfront Employers' Association of the Pacific Coast vs.
the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union (1944-1946) on the
issues of wages, shift differential, hours of work, overtime, work assignment,
collective agreements, negotiations, and work stoppage.
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Materials include transcripts of hearings; reports and
recommendations of the Mediation Panel; answers, briefs and statements of the
union and employers' association; report of the U.S. Department of Labor
Pacific Coast Longshore Factfinding Board (1946); collective agreements; notes,
memoranda, and statistical data pertaining to wages, shift differential, and
proposals for collective agreements.
Also correspondence, chiefly of Arthur S. Meyer (member,
Mediation Panel) with Lee G. Paul (member, National War Labor Board
Shipbuilding Commission), Anne Lapatin (assistant, Mediation Panel), various
members of the Mediation Panel, executives of the Waterfront Employers'
Association, and representatives of the union regarding collective negotiations
and agreements, the hearings conduct and work stoppages (1944-1946). Also,
clippings, notes and memoranda pertaining to the National War Labor Board case
of the New York Shipping Association et al vs. the International Longshoremen's
Association et al (1945) on issues of wage adjustment, work stoppages, and
shift differential.
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6. United States Steel Corporation vs. United
Steelworkers of America : report and documents, 1943.
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Consist of documents of the U.S. National War Labor Board
pertaining to the labor dispute settlement case of the United States Steel
Corporation vs. United Steelworkers of America (1943) on the issue of wage
adjustment in excess of the "Little Steel Formula". Include report of the Steel
Panel and statements, briefs and answers submitted to the Board by the parties.
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7. Miscellaneous case files, 1942-1946.
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Materials include summaries of significant Board
decisions (1943-1945); press releases, and reports of staff members of the
National War Labor Board pertaining to economic stabilization, and closed and
open shops (1943); also, transcripts of hearings before the Board concerning a
variety of parties and issues.
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Include answers, briefs, reports and recommendations of
mediation panels pertaining to the following cases: Northwest Airlines vs.
International Association of Machinists on issues of vacation, sick leave,
seniority, premium pay, shift differential, wage bonus, severance pay, wages,
and work rules (1946); "Little Steel Formula" hearings on applications for wage
adjustment in the iron and steel industry (1944); Ford Colliers Company et al
vs. United Clerical, Technical and Supervisory Employees of the Mining Industry
(United Mine Workers of America) on issues of holiday, seniority, working
conditions, hours of work, overtime and wages (1944-1945); Republic Steel
Corporation et al vs. Foremen's Association of America on issues of sick leave,
dismissal, technological change, war production, non-union employees,
supervisors, seniority, wage adjustment, vacation, and overtime (1943-1945);
Bethlehem Steel Company (ship building division) vs. Industrial Union of Marine
and Shipbuilding Workers of America on issues of position classification,
collective agreement, and wages; West Coast Airframe vs. United Automobile,
Aircraft and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, International
Association of Machinists, and National Union of United Aircraft Welders of
America on the issue of wages; and General Electric Company et al vs. United
Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America et al on issues of wages and
inflation (1944).
Also, Pittsburgh Plate Glass vs. International Brotherhood of
Boilermakers, Iron Shipbuilders, Blacksmiths, Forgers and Helpers; Federation
of Glass, Ceramic, and Silica Sand Workers of America on issues of premium pay,
and collective agreements (1945); and United Steelworkers of America vs.
various companies on issues of union security, war production, ability to pay,
job evaluation, grievance procedure, work stoppages, equal pay, technological
change, wages and collective agreement (1943-1945).
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II. Region 2 files, 1943-1946.
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Consists of the secondary file for dispute cases of the
Second Regional War Labor Board, a sampling of 500 of 2,248 cases heard, the
1945 correspondence of the Board, documentation relative to the development of
the Second Regional War Labor Board's policies and procedures and the research
and statistical files of the Board. Region 2 of the U.S. National War Labor
Board included New York State and northern New Jersey.
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The Second Regional War Labor Board was the first regional board
of the U.S. National War Labor Board to come into existence. It was formally
constituted on February 7, 1943. Region 2 had originally contained the states
of New York and New Jersey, but during the transition from a Regional Advisory
Board to a Regional War Labor Board, twelve counties in southern New Jersey
were transferred to the jurisdiction of Region 3, which had its headquarters in
Philadelphia. A variety of factors prompted this change: travel difficulties
and the schedules involved, the distance from the counties to the two
headquarters cities, and most important, the very large case load of the Second
Region.
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1. Dispute settlement case files, 1944-1945.
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Consist of materials pertaining to dispute settlement
cases brought before mediation panels of the National and Regional War Labor
Boards. Include reports and recommendations of mediation panels; answers,
statements, briefs, transcripts of hearings, directives and manuscript
notes.
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A-B companies: American Radiator and Standard Sanitary Company
vs. United Steelworkers of America (1943-1945) on issues of checkoff, wage
adjustment, retroactive pay, shift differential, meal period, vacation and sick
pay; American Can Company vs. Federal Local Employees Union (1944) on issues of
severance pay, shift differential, layoff, seniority, and management rights;
Baker and Company vs. International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers
(1945) on issues of bargaining unit, wages, position classification and
retroactive pay; Bendix Corporation vs. Aircraft Workers Union of New Jersey,
and United Auto Workers (Marine Division) (1944) on issues of wages, checkoff,
vacations, holidays, and retroactive pay; Bergen Point Iron Works vs. United
Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (1944) on issues of wage
adjustment, union security, checkoff, management rights, seniority, vacation,
dismissal, arbitration, holidays, sick leave, transfer, and grievance
procedure; and Brewers Board of Trade vs. International Union of United
Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drink and Distillery Workers of America and
International Brotherhood of Firemen and Oilers (1944) on issues of wages,
shift differential, vacation, holiday, and overtime.
C-G companies: Celanese Chemical Company vs. Textile Workers of
America and United Mine Workers of America (1944-1945) on issues of wages,
shift differential, holidays, vacation, pensions, union security, checkoff,
collective agreement, seniority, overtime, layoff, dismissal, and grievance
procedure; Cudahy Packing Company vs. United Packinghouse Workers of America
(1944-1945) on issues of wages, retroactive pay, vacation, union security,
overtime, arbitration, holiday, sick leave, vacation, and hours of work; Eagle
Electrical Manufacturing Company vs. United Office and Professional Workers of
America, International (1944) on issues of closed shop, checkoff, severance
pay, holiday, vacation, wages, and hours of work; E.A. Laboratories vs. United
Auto Workers (1944-1945) on issues of vacation, retroactive pay, wages, and
position classification; C.M. Grey Manufacturing Company vs. International
Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers (1945) on issues of position
classification, wages, union shop, holiday, and shift differential; Gulf Oil
Corporation vs. Petroleum Trades Employees Union (1944) on issues of
maintenance of membership, checkoff, wages, shift differential, and hours of
work; and General Cable Corporation vs. International Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers (1944-1945) on issues of arbitration, hours of work, overtime,
promotion, vacation, shift differential, wages, seniority, retroactive pay, and
holidays.
H-J companies: Helena Rubinstein Inc. vs. United Gas, Coke, and
Chemical Workers International Union (1943-1945) on issues of overtime, rest
period, holiday, sick leave, vacation, wages, meal period, union security, and
retroactive pay; Hope Window Inc. vs. International Association of Bridge,
Structural and Ornamental Iron Workers and International Federation of
Technical Engineers, Architects and Draftsmen's Union (1943-1944) on issues of
wages, overtime, shift differential, vacations, union security, hours of work,
retroactive pay, part time employment, and position classification;
International Harvester Company vs. International Association of Machinists
(1944-1945) on issues of holiday, wages, retroactive pay, wage adjustment,
position description, checkoff, and grievance procedure; A.D. Julliard Company
(Atlantic Mills Division) vs. Textile Workers of America (1944) on issues of
seniority, transfer, vacation, shift differential, wage adjustment, collective
agreement, hours of work and grievance procedure; and Julius Kayser and Company
vs. Federal Labor Union and Textile Workers of America (1944-1945) on issues of
wages, retroactive pay, closed shop, vacation, holidays, health insurance and
life insurance, seniority, contracting out, and retroactive pay.
K-N employers: Kings County, N.Y. vs. Kings County Light and Gas
Employees Union and Utility Workers Organizing Committee (1943-1945) on issues
of wages, hours of work, sick leave, overtime, shift differential, arbitration,
workers' compensation, and retroactive pay; W.L. Maxon Corporation vs. United
Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers (1944) on issues of union shop, checkoff,
hours of work, overtime, holiday, vacation, sick leave, shift differential,
life insurance and health insurance, severance pay, seniority, layoff, wages,
grievance and arbitration procedure, and dismissal; R.H. Macy and Company vs.
United Department Store Delivery and Interior Employees of Greater New York
(1945) on the issue of wages; Metal Thermit Corporation vs. International Union
of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers and International Brotherhood of Teamsters,
Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America (1943-1944) on issues of
retroactive pay, wages, holidays, vacation, shift differential, seniority, sick
leave, severance pay, and position classification; National Battery Company vs.
United Auto Workers (1944-1945) on issues of wages and retroactive pay; and
National Bearing Company vs. International Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers
(1944-1945) on issues of holidays, maintenance of membership, checkoff,
vacation and wages.
S-W companies: Sheffield Farms Associates vs. International
Brotherhood of Firemen and Oilers and International Association of Machinists
(1945) on issues of wages, holidays, retroactive pay, and shift differential;
Sherwin-Williams Company vs. Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and
Paperhangers of America (1945) on issues of wages, holidays, and retroactive
pay; Swift and Company vs. International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs,
Warehousemen and Helpers of America, United Packinghouse Workers of America,
and Amalgamated Workmen of America (1944-1945) on issues of wages, holidays,
vacations, closed shop, checkoff, retroactive pay, union security, and hours of
work; Texas Company vs. Bayonne, Texas Employees Association Inc. and Petroleum
Trades Employees' Union, (1943-1944) on issues of overtime, hours of work, wage
adjustment, union security and checkoff; Worthington Pump and Machinery
Corporation vs. Pattern Makers League and United Steelworkers of America
(1943-1944) on issues of wages, retroactive pay, and position classification;
Wright Aeronautical Corporation vs. Pattern Makers League of America and Wright
Aircraft Supervisors' Association (1944) on issues of grievance procedure,
dismissal, position classification, wages, retroactive pay, severance pay,
holidays, and layoff; and Western Union Telegraph Company vs. American
Communications Association (1944) on issues of wages, holiday, vacation,
pension, workmen's compensation and death benefit.
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2. Correspondence, 1945.
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Consist of the routine correspondence of members of the
National and Regional War Labor Boards and representatives of unions and
employers. Correspondence pertains to the materials used in evidence and to the
conduct of hearings for various labor dispute settlement cases.
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3. Policies and procedures files, 1943-1946.
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Consist of press releases and bulletins of National and
Regional War Labor Boards (1944-1946). Also, reports, directive orders, and
memoranda pertaining to wages, cost of living, inflation, "Little Steel
Formula", instructions and procedures for settling dispute cases, jurisdiction
of the Board, decisions of the National Wage Stabilization Board, collective
agreements, union security, veterans, management rights, grievance and
arbitration procedures, and wage and price policy.
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4. Research and statistics files, 1943-1945.
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Consist of research and statistical reports of the
National and Regional War Labor Boards and memoranda concerning their decisions
and actions.
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Include research and statistical reports of the War Labor Boards
pertaining to the national economy, wages and hours of work, checkoff, union
security, maintenance of membership, arbitration, manpower policy, strikes,
grievance procedure, seniority, and veterans; reports of the Program Appraisal
and Research Division of the National War Labor Board concerning wages for
various industrial sectors and geographical regions; and memoranda regarding
decisions and actions of the War Labor Boards.
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5. Administrative files, 1942-1946.
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Consist of administrative documents of the National War
Labor Board. Materials include directive orders; press releases; and minutes of
Region 2 (1943-1946).
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Also included are statements, briefs and reports pertaining to
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company on issues of wage adjustment (1942); Textile
Workers' Union of America vs. twenty-one cotton and rayon textile mills in New
England on issues of wages and hours of work (1944); Associated Fur Coat and
Trimming Manufacturers vs. Furriers' Joint Council of New York; and Fur Floor
Boys and Shipping Clerks' Union on issues of job security, wages, death
benefit, and insurance (1946).
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III. Non-Ferrous Metals Commission files, 1943-1946.
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Consist primarily of transcripts of hearings, briefs, and
answers of unions and employers, and reports and recommendations of Mediation
Panels regarding dispute settlement cases brought before the Non-Ferrous Metals
Commissions of the U.S. National War Labor Board (1943-1945).
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A-I companies: American Smelting and Refining Company vs.
International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers (IUMMSW) and United Steel
Workers of America (1944-1945) on issues of wages, hours of work, sick leave,
shift differential, collective agreement, holiday, pension, military leave,
benefits, position classification, health insurance, grievance procedure,
arbitration, vacation, and management rights; Anaconda Copper Mining Company
vs. IUMMSW, Metal Trades Council of the A.F. of L. and the International
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (1944-1945) on issues of sick leave, wages,
vacation, checkoff, severance pay, hours of work, grievance procedure, sick
pay, arbitration, shift differential, promotion, military leave, management
rights, union security, and health insurance; Empire Zinc Company vs. IUMMSW
(1944) on issues of severance pay, checkoff, position classification, hours of
work, vacation, wages, portal to portal pay, union security, sick leave, and
military leave; and Inspirational Consolidated Copper Company vs. Metal Trades
Department of the A.F. of L., Miami Miners' Union, and IUMMSW (1945) on issues
of union security, collective agreement, wages, closed shop, vacation, shift
differential, sick leave, severance pay, and position classification.
Companies K-R: Kennecott Copper Corporation vs. Chino Metal Trades
Council of Grant County, N. M., and Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen,
International Association of Machinists, IUMMSW, International Union of
Operating Engineers, and White Plains Metal Trades Council (1943-1945) on
issues of position classification, collective agreement, work assignment,
seniority, checkoff, maintenance of membership, sick leave, promotion,
commuting, vacation, shift differential, union shop, union security, wages,
portal to portal pay, and promotion; Phelps Dodge Refining Corporation vs.
IUMMSW (1943) on issues of grievance procedure, wage incentive, defense
production, position classification, union security, absenteeism, sick pay,
shift differential, vacation, wages, and checkoff; and Resurrection Mining
Company vs. IUMMSW (1944-1945) on issues of retroactive pay, severance pay,
shift differential, maintenance of membership, checkoff, wages, and sick leave.
U-V companies: U.S. Potash Company of America vs. International
Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers IUMMSW), International Association of
Machinists and Potash Workers Union (1944-1945) on issues of promotion,
vacation, wage adjustment, wages, meal period, contracting out, position
classification, shift differential, overtime, and hours of work; Utah Copper
Company (Kennecott Corporation) vs. Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and
Enginemen, International Association of Operating Engineers, and IUMMSW
(1943-1945) on issues of promotion, insurance, military leave, severance pay,
meal period, shift differential, wage adjustment, portal to portal pay, wages,
sick leave, vacation, arbitration, commuting, union shop and hours of work;
Utah Copper Mines (Utah Block) vs. IUMMSW (1944) on issues of wages, seniority,
vacations, sick pay, health insurance, recognition, union security, and
arbitration; and Vanadium Corporation of America vs. IUMMSW, United Mine
Workers of America, and International Union of Operating Engineers (1943-1944)
on issues of military leave, sick leave, commuting, vacation, portal to portal
pay, safety, shift differential, maintenance of membership, wages, union
security, seniority, union shop, checkoff, and premium pay.
Additional documents generated by the Non-Ferrous Metals
Commission include directive orders; bulletins; handbook of dispute settlement
procedures; minutes; summary of significant Commission actions; lists of
dispute settlement cases brought before the Commission; correspondence of
Commission members, and representatives of unions and employers regarding
hearings and case disposition; and memoranda concerning wages, absenteeism,
labor shortages, and production (1943-1945).
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