Guide to the Edmund Ezra Day Arbitration Files,
1949

Collection Number: 5094

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

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Compiled by:
Kheel Center staff
Date completed:
2000
EAD encoding:
September 10, 2002

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DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Edmund Ezra Day arbitration files, 1949.
Collection Number:
5094
Creator:
Day, Edmund Ezra, 1883-1951.
Quantity:
1 linear foot.
Forms of Material:
Arbitration files.
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Bell Aircraft Corporation and the United Automobile, Aircraft and Agricultural Implement Workers International Union Local 501 : arbitration files, 1949.

ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY

This dispute arose over the application of security regulations and economic demands during the renegotiation of the contract. A strike ensued and the company secured an injunction to restrain the mass picketing. Violence resulted in the arrest of some of the strikers. The Commissioner of Labor, Mr. Edward Corsi, appointed a fact-finding board consisting of Edmund Ezra Day, Chairman; DR. Samuel P Copen, Mr. Charles Garside, Mrs. Elinore Herrick and Paul S. Andrews.
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

9 volumes, 1659 pages. Correspondence, newspaper clippings, exhibits and material from the hearing on the injunction.
SUBJECTS

Names:
Day, Edmund Ezra, 1883-1951.

Subjects:
Arbitration, Industrial--United States--Sources.
Airlines--Employees--Labor unions--United States--Sources.

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Cite As:
Edmund Ezra Day arbitration files, 1949. #5094. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
COLLECTION ARRANGEMENT

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