Collins, John Collection of Railway Labor Records, 1970-1971
Collection Number: 5173
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
John Collins Collection of Railway Labor Records, 1970-1971
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
5173
Abstract:
Consists of a manuscript notebook containing a poll of union members and union officials
employed on the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad. The poll concerned the merger which created
the United Transportation Union. Also included are miscellaneous materials from railroad
companies.
Creator:
Collins, John
Quanitities:
0.5 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English
John Collins is a lawyer and government employee. At the time he accumulated these
documents he was a fireman employed on the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad out of Buffalo,
N.Y. and a law student. These materials were gathered for a research paper for a University
of of Buffalo seminar.
Consists of a manuscript notebook containing a poll of union members and union officials
employed on the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad. The poll concerned the merger which created
the United Transportation Union.
Questions were raised concerning the necessity of the merger and its effects, especially
at the local level. Also included are notes of interviews with brakemen, engineers,
firemen, trainmen, conductors and carmen and notes on the organizing efforts of the
new union. This collection also contains routine railroad forms and documents.
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Procedures for Document Use.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
John Collins Collection of Railway Labor Records #5173. Kheel Center for Labor-Management
Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
Names:
Erie-Lackawanna Railroad Company
United Transportation Union
Collins, John F.
Subjects:
Railroads--Employees--Labor unions--United States
Railroads -- Officials and employees--Interviews.
Railroad--Employees.
Trade-union leadership. Interviews.
Trade-union merger. United States.
Trade-unions. Railroads. United States.
CONTAINER LIST
|
Container
|
Description
|
Date
|
|
| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Interviews with railroad union members on the creation of the UTU
|
1970 |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Miscellany
|
1971 |