James O. Morris Collections

Collection Number: /4334

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


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
James O. Morris Collections, 1906-1985
Collection Number:
/4334
Creator:
Hallman, Ernest;
Morris, James O.;
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives
Quantity:
52.7 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Papers (documents), sound recordings, interviews, records (documents) .
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Audio recordings of an interview with Ernest Hallman by Professor James O. Morris on June 21, 1974.

Collection consists of 10 audio reels and 1 cassette tape, collected by James Morris.
Language:
Collection material in English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Finnish


BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Ernest Hallman was Personnel Manager, Director of Personnel for the Illinois Central Gulf, and Chairman of the Western Regional Carriers Conference.
James O. Morris (February 8, 1923 June 30, 1985) was professor of industrial and labor relations at Cornell University's New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations.
A graduate of Hiram College and the University of Michigan, Morris joined the faculty of Cornell University in 1955. In the 1950s and early 1960s, he spent time in Chile as a Fulbright scholar and the ILR School's representative at the University of Chile in Santiago. After his time in Chile, Morris returned to Ithaca and taught in Cornell's Department of Collective Bargaining, Labor Law, and Labor History.
Morris was the author of Conflict within the AFL: A Study of Craft versus Industrial Unionism, 1900-1938 (Ithaca: Cornell, 1958), Elites, Intellectuals and Consensus: A Study of the Social Question and the Industrial Relations Systems in Chile (Ithaca: Cornell, 1966), Bibliography of Industrial Relations in the Railroad Industry (Ithaca: Cornell, 1975), and with Roberto Oyaneder, Afiliacion y finanzas sindicales en Chile, 1932-1959 (Santiago: University of Chile Press, 1966).
Morris served on the editorial board of Labor History and Industrial and Labor Relations Review, and was a founding member of the New York State Labor History Association, a group for which he also served terms as vice president and president.
See the Cornell University Faculty Memorial Statement for Professor James Morris: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/18150
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James O. Morris (February 8, 1923 June 30, 1985) was professor of industrial and labor relations at Cornell University's New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations.
A graduate of Hiram College and the University of Michigan, Morris joined the faculty of Cornell University in 1955. In the 1950s and early 1960s, he spent time in Chile as a Fulbright scholar and the ILR School's representative at the University of Chile in Santiago. After his time in Chile, Morris returned to Ithaca and taught in Cornell's Department of Collective Bargaining, Labor Law, and Labor History.
Morris was the author of Conflict within the AFL: A Study of Craft versus Industrial Unionism, 1900-1938 (Ithaca: Cornell, 1958), Elites, Intellectuals and Consensus: A Study of the Social Question and the Industrial Relations Systems in Chile (Ithaca: Cornell, 1966), Bibliography of Industrial Relations in the Railroad Industry (Ithaca: Cornell, 1975), and with Roberto Oyaneder, Afiliacion y finanzas sindicales en Chile, 1932-1959 (Santiago: University of Chile Press, 1966).
Morris served on the editorial board of Labor History and Industrial and Labor Relations Review, and was a founding member of the New York State Labor History Association, a group for which he also served terms as vice president and president.
See the Cornell University Faculty Memorial Statement for Professor James Morris: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/18150

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

1-Agricultural organizing, 2-Emma Goldman, 3-Folklore of the American Labor Movement, 4-Man from Terre Haute and His Cause, Eugene Debs, 5-Norman Thomas & Eugene Debs 6-San Francisco Waterfront and General Strike pt.1, 7-pt.2, 8-She also ran-Victoria Woodhull, 9-Whatever became-Warren K. Billings, 10-When labor was a dirty word
SUBJECTS

Names:
Goldman, Emma, 1869-1940
Green, Archie
Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor), 1855-1926
Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968.
Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927
Billings, Warren K., 1893-1972
Lamparski, Richard.
Morris, James Oliver, 1923-
Hallman, Ernest
Illinois Central Gulf Railroad Company.
Kheel Center for Labor- Management Documentation and Archives
National Farm Workers Association
New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations.

Subjects:
Labor movement -- United States.

Form and Genre Terms:
Papers (documents)
Sound recordings
Interviews
Records (documents)


INFORMATION FOR USERS

Access Restrictions:
Access to the collections in the Kheel Center is restricted. Please contact a reference archivist for access to these materials.
Restrictions on Use:
This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and Procedures for Document Use.
Cite As:
James O. Morris Collections #/4334. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.

RELATED MATERIALS

Related Collections:
5481 AV: Railroad Industrial Relations Project Oral History Interviews Audio recordings
5582: Archives Foreign File (AFF)
5780/087: ILGWU Leon Stein Papers
6034: Rare Pamphlet Collection

CONTAINER LIST

Container
Description
Date
Box 1 Folder 1
4 linear feet
Box 1 Folder 2 1906-1979
11 linear feet
Box 1 Folder 3
0.7 linear feet
Box 1 Folder 4 1923-1985
35 linear feet
Box 1 Folder 5 1974
0.8 linear feet. Audio recordings of an interview with Ernest Hallman by Professor James O. Morris on June 21, 1974.
Box 1 Folder 6 1960- 1969
1.2 linear feet. Collection consists of 10 audio reels and 1 cassette tape, collected by James Morris. --------------- 1-Agricultural organizing, 2-Emma Goldman, 3-Folklore of the American Labor Movement, 4-Man from Terre Haute and His Cause, Eugene De