Guide to the Brotherhood of Railway, Airline, and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express, and Station Employees:
Series XIX:
[1915-1985]

Collection Number: 5488 B

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

Contact Information:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives
Martin P. Catherwood Library
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Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
(607) 255-3183
kheel_center@cornell.edu
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/kheel
Compiled by:
Kheel Center Staff
Date completed:
1999
EAD encoding:
Randall Miles, 19 January, 2009

© 2009 Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Brotherhood of Railway, Airline, and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express, and Station Employees: 1915-1985
Collection Number:
5488 B
Creator:
Brotherhood of Railway, Airline, and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express, and Station Employees.
Quantity:
669 linear feet.
Forms of Material:
Correspondence, Rule books, Agreements, etc.
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Language:
Collection material in English.

SUBJECTS

Names:
Brotherhood of Railway, Airline, and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express, and Station Employees.

Subjects:
Railroads--Employees--Labor unions--United States--Sources.

INFORMATION FOR USERS

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Brotherhood of Railway, Airline, and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express, and Station Employees : #5488 B. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
COLLECTION ARRANGEMENT

This forms a portion of collection #5488 B. The guide to the entire collection is available here.
Series XIX is arranged in 82 sub-series by Union file number.
CONTAINER LIST

Date
Description
Container
Series XIX. SPECIAL DISPENSATIONS
Sub-Series 225-0. Special Dispensations
1933-1949
General (Waiving of initiation fee for former members or employees who served in the armed forces.)
Box 69 Folder 16
1923-1924
General
 Box 69 Folder 17
1922
General
 Box 69 Folder 18
Sub-Series 225-1. Special Dispensation
1940-1959
Authority to lower initiation and reinstatement fees
Box 70 Folder 1
1933-1939
Authority to lower initiation and reinstatement fees
Box 70 Folder 2
1930-1932
Authority to lower initiation and reinstatement fees
Box 70 Folder 3
1926-1929
Authority to lower initiation and reinstatement fees
Box 70 Folder 4
1923-1925
Authority to lower initiation and reinstatement fees
Box 70 Folder 5
1922
Authority to lower initiation and reinstatement fees
Box 70 Folder 6
1922
Authority to lower initiation and reinstatement fees
Box 70 Folder 7
1922
Authority to lower initiation and reinstatement fees
Box 70 Folder 8
1922
Authority to lower initiation and reinstatement fees
Box 70 Folder 9
1922
Authority to lower initiation and reinstatement fees
Box 70 Folder 10
1921
Authority to lower initiation and reinstatement fees
Box 70 Folder 11
Sub-Series 225-2. Special Dispensation
1924-1929
Authority to accept transfer cards from an affiliated organization
Box 71 Folder 1
Sub-Series 225-3. Special Dispensation
1930-1937
Authority to administer obligation outside of lodge room
Box 71 Folder 2
1920-1929
Authority to administer obligation outside of lodge room
Box 71 Folder 3
Sub-Series 225-4. Special Dispensation
1920-1921
Cancellation
 Box 71 Folder 4
Sub-Series 225-6. Special Dispensation
1921-1953
Waiving Grand Lodge Per Capita Tax
 Box 71 Folder 5
Sub-Series 225-7. Special Dispensation
1921
Lodge No. 1317 (Chicago, Illinois), fourth quarter per capita tax
Box 71 Folder 6
Sub-Series 225-8. Special Dispensation
1921-1923
Authority to take into membership members of dual organizations
Box 71 Folder 7
Sub-Series 225-9. Special Dispensation
1921
Authority to administer obligation outside of lodge room
Box 71 Folder 8
Sub-Series 225-10. Special Dispensation
1921-1922
Authority to accept former members of the International Longshoremen's Association (I.L.A.) to membership at Vancouver, British Columbia's Canadian Pacific Railway (C.P.R)
Box 71 Folder 9
Sub-Series 225-11. Special Dispensation
1921-1933
Authority to take into membership members or former members of the International Longshoremen's Association (I.L.A.), West St. John, New Brunswick (N.B.), Canada
Box 71 Folder 10
Sub-Series 225-12. Special Dispensation
1921-1927
Authority to grant withdrawal cards to former members of lodges whose charters have been surrendered
Box 71 Folder 11
Sub-Series 225-13. Special Dispensation
1921-1922
Authority to take into membership employees of the American Railway Express Company who are now members of dual organization
Box 71 Folder 12
Sub-Series 225-14. Special Dispensation
1921-1922
Authority to take into membership members of the Railway Shop Laborers Union
Box 71 Folder 13
Sub-Series 225-15. Special Dispensation
1921-1922
Authority to waive per capita tax for members on strike-Manchester Lodge No. 902 (Manchester, Georgia)
Box 71 Folder 14
Sub-Series 225-16. Special Dispensation
1921-1922
Authority to waive per capita tax for members on strike-Abanda Lodge No. 1242 (Atlanta, Georgia)
Box 71 Folder 15
Sub-Series 225-17. Special Dispensation
1921-1926
Authority to take into membership employees affiliated with the Order of Railway Expressmen (O.R.E.)
Box 71 Folder 16
Sub-Series 225-18. Special Dispensation
1921-1922
Authority to waive per capita tax for members on strike-Lodge No. 902 (Manchester, Georgia) and Missouri and North Arkansas (M. & N.A.) Railway Lodge No. 1319 (Harrison, Arkansas)
Box 71 Folder 17
Sub-Series 225-20. Special Dispensation
1921-1924
Authority to waive per capita tax for members on strike-Queen City of the Lakes Lodge No. 1249 (Buffalo, New York)
Box 71 Folder 18
Sub-Series 225-21. Special Dispensation
1921-1922
Authority to waive per capita tax for members on strike-Colonial Lodge No. 394 (New York City, New York)
Box 71 Folder 19
Sub-Series 225-22. Special Dispensation
1921-1922
Authority to waive per capita tax for members on strike-Fitzgerald Lodge No. 853 (Fitzgerald, Georgia)
Box 71 Folder 20
Sub-Series 255-23. Special Dispensation
1921
Authority to waive per capita tax for members on strike-Transfer Clerk and Freight Handlers Lodge No. 1437 (St. Louis, Missouri)
Box 71 Folder 21
Sub-Series 225-24. Special Dispensation
1921-1922
Authority to waive per capita tax for members on strike-Steel City Lodge No. 591 (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
Box 71 Folder 22
Sub-Series 225-25. Special Dispensation
1922
Authority to waive three year provision of the Grand Lodge Laws-Cancellation of
Box 71 Folder 23
Sub-Series 225-26. Special Dispensation
1922-1924
Authority to authorize others than constituted officers to preside at regular meeting
Box 71 Folder 24
Sub-Series 225-27. Special Dispensation
1922
Authority to prorate Grand Lodge revenue on new members and reinstatements, under special dispensation lowering such fees
Box 71 Folder 25
Sub-Series 225-28. Special Dispensation
1922
Authority to charge expense accounts relative to 1922 Convention to the Grand Lodge Convention Fund
Box 71 Folder 26
Sub-Series 225-29. Special Dispensation
1922
Compensation reduction-Contracting
 Box 71 Folder 27
Feb. 7, 1922.
Sub-Series 225-30. Special Dispensation
1922
Authority to waive per capita tax for members on strike-Birmingham Lodge No. 291 (Birmingham, Alabama)
Box 71 Folder 28
Sub-Series 225-31. Special Dispensation
1922
Authority to waive per capita tax for members on strike-Waycross Lodge No. 5 (Waycross, Georgia)
Box 71 Folder 29
Sub-Series 225-32. Special Dispensation
1922
Authority to waive per capita tax for members on strike-Brunswick Lodge No. 555 (Brunswick, Georgia)
Box 71 Folder 30
Sub-Series 225-33. Special Dispensation
1922
Authority to waive per capita tax for members on strike-Cordele Lodge No. 509 (Cordele, Georgia)
Box 71 Folder 31
Sub-Series 225-34. Special Dispensation
1922
Authority to authorize a second election to select a delegate and an alternate to the 1922 Convention
Box 71 Folder 32
Sub-Series 225-35. Special Dispensation
1922-1931
Authority to take into membership employees of system boards of adjustment
Box 71 Folder 33
Sub-Series 225-36. Special Dispensation
1922
Authority to waive per capita tax for members on strike-Scranton Lodge No. 410 (Scranton, Pennsylvania)
Box 71 Folder 34
Sub-Series 225-37. Special Dispensation
1922-1949
Authority to lower reinstatement fees to $5.00
Box 71 Folder 35
Sub-Series 225-39. Special Dispensation
1921-1922
Authority to waive per capita tax for members on strike-Stone Mountain Lodge No. 326 (Atlanta, Georgia)
Box 71 Folder 36
Sub-Series 225-40. Special Dispensation
1922
Authority to take into membership employees of system boards of adjustment
Box 71 Folder 37
Sub-Series 225-41. Special Dispensation
1923-1925
Authority to affiliate members of dual organizations without the collection of the lawful initiation fee
Box 71 Folder 38
Sub-Series 225-42. Special Dispensation
1922
Authority to take into membership striking eligible non-members
Box 71 Folder 39
Sub-Series 225-43. Special Dispensation
1922
Authority to waive per capita tax for members of strike
Box 71 Folder 40
Sub-Series 225-44. Special Dispensation
1922
Authority to waive per capita tax for members on strike
Box 71 Folder 41
Sub-Series 225-45. Special Dispensation
1922
Authority to waive per capita tax for members on strike
Box 71 Folder 42
Sub-Series 225-45. Special Dispensation
1922
Authority to waive per capita tax for members on strike
Box 71 Folder 43
Sub-Series 225-47. Special Dispensation
1922
Authority to waive per capita tax for members on strike
Box 71 Folder 44
Sub-Series 225-48. Special Dispensation
1922
Authority to waive per capita tax for members on strike
Box 71 Folder 45
Sub-Series 225-49. Special Dispensation
1922
Authority to waive per capita tax for members on strike
Box 71 Folder 46
Sub-Series 225-50. Special Dispensation
1922
Authority to waive per capita tax for members on strike
Box 71 Folder 47
Sub-Series 225-51. Special Dispensation
1922
Authority to waive per capita tax for members on strike
Box 71 Folder 48
Sub-Series 225-52. Special Dispensation
1922
Authority to waive per capita tax for members on strike
Box 71 Folder 49
Sub-Series 225-53. Special Dispensation
1922
Authority to waive per capita tax for members on strike
Box 71 Folder 50
Sub-Series 225-54 to 225-75. Special Dispensation
1922
Authority to waive per capita tax for members on strike
Box 71 Folder 51
Sub-Series 225-76. Special Dispensation
1922-1923
Authority to accept suspended members as new members
Box 71 Folder 52
Sub-Series 225-77. Special Dispensation
1923-1937
Authority to lower initiation fee account International Longshoremen's Association
Box 71 Folder 53
Sub-Series 225-78. Special Dispensation
1923-1948
Authority to take into membership members of the Order of Railroad Telegraphers
Box 71 Folder 54
Sub-Series 225-79. Special Dispensation
1936-1954
Authority to transfer members-Maintenance of Way Employees
Box 71 Folder 55
1923-1927
Authority to transfer members-Maintenance of Way Employees
Box 71 Folder 56
Sub-Series 225-80. Special Dispensation
1923
Authority to hold a local lodge charter with less than the constitutional number of members in good standing
Box 71 Folder 57
Sub-Series 225-81. Special Dispensation
1923-1938
Authority to issue withdrawal card to members remaining in the service
Box 71 Folder 58
1923, 1934-38.
Sub-Series 225-82. Special Dispensation
1923-1953
Authority to take into membership at less than the lawful rate members of the International Brotherhood of Firemen & Oilers
Box 71 Folder 59
Sub-Series 225-83. Special Dispensation
1924
Non-precedent authority to affiliate a member suspended by another lodge
Box 71 Folder 60
Sub-Series 225-84. Special Dispensation
1940-1952
Lowering initiation fees account dual organization
Box 71 Folder 61
1940-1956
Lowering initiation fees account dual organization
Box 71 Folder 62
1940-1959
225-84(2). Lowering initiation fees account dual organization
Box 71 Folder 63
1940-1955
225-84(2). Lowering initiation fees account dual organization
Box 71 Folder 64
1937-1939
Lowering initiation fees account dual organization
Box 71 Folder 65
1935-1939
Lowering initiation fees account dual organization (in alphabetical order)
Box 71 Folder 66
1932-1934
Lowering initiation fees account dual organization
Box 72 Folder 1
1930-1931
Lowering initiation and reinstatement fees account dual organization
Box 72 Folder 2
1924-1929
Lowering initiation and reinstatement fees account dual organization
Box 72 Folder 3
Sub-Series 225-85. Special Dispensation
1924-1925
Qualification of delegates to Grand Lodge Convention
Box 72 Folder 4
Sub-Series 225-86. Special Dispensation
1925-1928
Authority to extend final date payment of per capita tax
Box 72 Folder 5
Sub-Series 225-87. Special Dispensation
1925
Authority to elect a Vice General Chairman by referendum
Box 72 Folder 6
Aug. 1, 1925.
Sub-Series 225-88. Special Dispensation
1925
Authority to waive per capita tax certain express lodges account outlaw movement
Box 72 Folder 7
Sept. 30, 1925.
Sub-Series 225-89. Special Dispensation
1925
Authority to transfer membership account express outlaw movement
Box 72 Folder 8
Oct. 9, 1925.
Sub-Series 225-90. Special Dispensation
1925-1935
Authority to postpone election of local lodge officers
Box 72 Folder 9
1925, 1934-35.
Sub-Series 225-91. Special Dispensation
1925-1928
Authority to affiliate members of outlaw organization. American Federation of Express Workers
Box 72 Folder 10
Sub-Series 225-92. Special Dispensation
1926-1928
Authority to reinstate death benefit certificates
Box 72 Folder 11
Sub-Series 225-93. Special Dispensation
1927-1930
Authority to affiliate Chesapeake & Ohio strikers at lower rate
Box 72 Folder 12
Sub-Series 225-94. Special Dispensation
1928-1936
Authority to install local lodge officers and initiate new members
Box 72 Folder 13
Sub-Series 225-95 to 225-99. Special Dispensations
1932-1935
Varied, includes: Transfers, Installation of Local Lodge Officers, and Dues
Box 72 Folder 14
Sub-Series 225-100 to 225-109. Special Dispensations
1934-1959
Miscellaneous
 Box 72 Folder 15
Sub-Series 225-110. Special Dispensation
1937
Authorizing Brother Frank Pearce Smith, Lodge No. 2140, Hamlet, North Carolina to hold the office of Chairmen of the Board of Trustees
Box 72 Folder 16
Jan. 1937.
Sub-Series 225-111. Special Dispensation
1938
Authorizing Brothers John Sullivan and J.R. Ledgerwood, Lodge No. 2017, St. Louis, Missouri, to hold office of chaplain and chairmen of the Board of Trustees
Box 72 Folder 17
Jan. 1938.
Sub-Series 225-112. Special Dispensation
1938
Authorizing members to hold non-salaried offices in lodges when on pension
Box 72 Folder 18
Sub-Series 225-113. Special Dispensation
1938
Authority to take into membership Mrs. Angela Perazzo, Stenographer, Brotherhood of Firemen and Oilers (B. of F. & O.), Cincinnati
Box 72 Folder 19
1938 May 2
Sub-Series 225-114. Special Dispensation
1944-1953
Authority to transfer members, International Association of Machinists
Box 72 Folder 20
Sub-Series 225-115. Special Dispensation
1940
Authority to take into membership Miss Dorothy C. Tate, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen
Box 72 Folder 21
1940 May
Sub-Series 225-116. Special Dispensation
1942-1943
Order of Railway Conductors
 Box 72 Folder 22
Sub-Series 225-117. Special Dispensation
1947-1954
Harold D. Ulrich, Boston and Maine (B. & M.) System Board of Adjustment
Box 72 Folder 23
Sub-Series 225-118. Special Dispensation
1958
Accepting into membership employees, International Brotherhood of Firemen and Oilers
Box 72 Folder 24
Jan. 1958.