Arthur Meyer Papers, 1918-1950
Collection Number: 5252
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Arthur Meyer Papers, 1918-1950
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
5252
Abstract:
Include speeches and articles by Meyer (1941-1950); his correspondence while on the
U.S. National War Labor Board (1942-1945); and excerpts from letters written by Meyer
(1942-1955). Also materials on the Fact-Finding Committee of the Board of Education,
City of New York (1951); transcripts and accompanying documentation regarding the
National War Labor Board case of the Electrical Transcription Manufacturing Company
vs. the American Federation of Musicians (1942-1943); and miscellaneous arbitration
case files (1942-1946).
Creator:
Meyer, Arthur
Quanitities:
4 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English
Arthur S. Meyer was a member of the New York State Board of Mediation from its inception
in 1937. In 1940, he was appointed as its chairman, a position in which he served
until his retirement in 1950. Before becoming a mediator, Meyer was a successful businessman,
rising to the posts of president and director of the Schulte Real Estate Company and
vice-president of the Schulte Retail Stores Corporation. In 1942, Meyer was named
chairman of a U.S. War Labor Board panel to rule on the demands of the Steel Workers
Organizing Committee for a raise of one dollar per day and union security. The recommendation
of Meyer and his committee formed the basis for a subsequent Board ruling known as
the "Little Steel Formula".
Include speeches and articles by Meyer (1941-1950); his correspondence while on the
U.S. National War Labor Board (1942-1945); and excerpts from letters written by Meyer
(1942-1955). Also materials on the Fact-Finding Committee of the Board of Education,
City of New York (1951); transcripts and accompanying documentation regarding the
National War Labor Board case of the Electrical Transcription Manufacturing Company
vs. the American Federation of Musicians (1942-1943); and miscellaneous arbitration
case files (1942-1946).
Access to the collections in the Kheel Center is restricted. Please contact a reference
archivist for access to these materials.
This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and
Procedures for Document Use.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Arthur Meyer Papers #5252. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives,
Cornell University Library.
Names:
Davis, William H.
Ellickson, Katherine Pollak, 1905-1996.
Feinsinger, Nathan Paul, 1902-1983.
Fly, James Lawrence
Frumesman, Harry
Gellhorn, Walter, 1906-1995
Herzog, Paul M., 1906-1986
Hilger, William S.
Jacobs, Arthur
Latimer, Murray Webb
McManus, Thomas P.
Meyer, Arthur S. (Arthur Simon), 1880-1955.
Miller, Max J.
Rubin, Milton.
Petrillo, James C. (James Caesar), 1892-1984
Podway, Joseph A.
Rubin, W. (George William), 1901-1972.
Thompson, Samuel H.
Waldron, William A.
Warren, Edgar F.
American Cloak and Suit Manufacturers Association, inc.
American Communications Association
American Federation of Musicians
Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.)
Electrical Transcription Manufacturers
General Electric Company
International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen, and Helpers of America
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union
International Union of Operating Engineers
Laborers' International Union of North America
New York (N.Y.). Board of Education. Fact-Finding Committee.
New York (State). Board of Mediation.
New York Telephone Company
Press Wireless, Inc.
Transcontinental Gas Pipe Lines Corporation
United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipefitting Industry
United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America
United States. National War Labor Board (1942-1945)
United Telephone Organizations
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Subjects:
Arbitration, Industrial--Teachers--New York (State)--New York.
Arbitration, Industrial--United States--Cases.
Collective bargaining -- United States.
Employment stabilization -- United States.
Guaranteed annual income -- United States.
Industrial productivity-- United States.
Industrial relations -- United States
Manpower planning -- United States.
Mediation and conciliation, Industrial--United States--Cases.
Open and closed shop --United States.
Strikes and lockouts -- United States -- Public opinion.
Labor unions --United States -- Political activity.
Wages and labor productivity -- United States.
War and emergency powers--United States.
Arbitration, Industrial. Clothing industry. United States.
Arbitration, Industrial. Construction industry. United States.
Arbitration, Industrial. Electric industries. United States.
Arbitration, Industrial. Musicians. United States.
Arbitration, Industrial. Telecommunication. United States.
Collective bargaining. Charities. United States.
Contracting out. Arbitration, Industrial. United States.
Employees, Transfer of. Arbitration, Industrial. United States.
Industry wide bargaining. United States.
Layoffs. Arbitration, Industrial. United States.
Management rights. Arbitration, Industrial. United States.
Open and closed shop. Arbitration, Industrial. United States.
Position classification. Arbitration, Industrial. United States.
Strikes and lockouts. Coal mining industry. United States.
Strikes and lockouts. Merchant marine. United States.
Strikes and lockouts. Trucking industry. United States.
Teachers. New York (N.Y.). Salaries, pensions, etc.
Trade-union security. Arbitration, Industrial. United States.
Trade-union security. United States.
Unemployment. Arbitration, Industrial. United States.
Wages. Arbitration, Industrial. United States.
Wages. Electric industries. United States.
Wages. Metal-workers. United States.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
|
Description
|
Date
|
|
Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Official Report of Proceedings before the National War Labor Board of the Office for
Emergency Management in the matter of Electrical Transcription Mfg. and the American
Federation of Musicians, AFL
|
1943 |
Scope and Contents
Members: Vleyer, Chr. Representing the public; Gilbert E. Fuller-Industry Rep; Max
Zaritsky-Labor Rep; Paul R. Hays-Counsel to the Panel; N.P. Feinsinger-Special Assistant
to Panel
|
|||
Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Case no.111-2499-D Transcript volume 1
|
1943 |
Scope and Contents
Septmeber 7, 1943. pp.1-148
|
|||
Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Case no.111-2499-D Transcript volume 2
|
1943 |
Scope and Contents
Septmeber 8, 1943. pp.149-252
|
|||
Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Case no.111-2499-D Transcript volume 3
|
1943 |
Scope and Contents
Septmeber 9, 1943. pp.253-419
|
|||
Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Case no.111-2499-D Transcript volume 4
|
1943 |
Scope and Contents
Septmeber 20, 1943. pp.420-434
|
|||
Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Case no.111-2499-D Transcript volume 5
|
1943 |
Scope and Contents
Septmeber 21, 1943. pp.434-448
|
|||
Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Case no.111-2499-D Transcript volume 6
|
1943 |
Scope and Contents
Septmeber 27, 1943. pp.449-467
|
|||
Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Case no.111-2499-D Transcript volume 7
|
1943 |
Scope and Contents
Septmeber 28, 1943. pp.468-605
|
|||
Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Case no.111-2499-D Transcript volume 8
|
1943 |
Scope and Contents
October 20, 1943. pp.606-616
|
|||
Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Case no.111-2499-D Transcript volume 9
|
1943 |
Scope and Contents
November 3, 1943. pp.617-819
|
|||
Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Case no.111-2499-D Transcript volume 10
|
1943 |
Scope and Contents
November 4, 1943. pp.820-915
|
|||
Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Case no.111-2499-D Transcript volume 11
|
1943 |
Scope and Contents
November 5, 1943. pp.916-1137
|
|||
Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Case no.111-2499-D Transcript volume 12
|
1943 |
Scope and Contents
November 9, 1943. pp.1138-1345
|
|||
Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Case no.111-2499-D Transcript volume 13
|
1943 |
Scope and Contents
November 19, 1943. pp.1346-1560
|
|||
Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Case no.111-2499-D Transcript volume 14
|
1943 |
Scope and Contents
November 20, 1943. pp.1561-1663
|
|||
Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Case no.111-2499-D Transcript volume 15
|
1943 |
Scope and Contents
November 22, 1943. pp.1664-1900
|
|||
Box 1 | Folder 16 |
National Association of Broadcasters' Special American Federation of Musicians' Bulletins
|
1942-1943 |
Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Notes regarding Case no.111-2499-D
|
1942-1943 |
Scope and Contents
Silver Anniversary Souvenir (1943) St. Louis Municipal Opera; Questionnaire concerning
phonograph records, electrical transcriptions and musicians, put out by USA- Federal
Communications Commissions; Statement of Joseph A. Podway (Counsel for AFM) at Senate
Committee Hearing; Statement of James Lawrence Fly (Chairman, FCC) before the sub-committee
on Interstate Commerce on 5 Res. 286, 77th Congress, 2nd session, Fly is Chairman
of the Federal Communications Commission and the Board of War Communications i.e.
the impact of the recording ban on the radio broadcast industry; Photostats of abstracts
of court cases from various legal-reporting services (published) RCA Mfg. Co. Inc.
v. Whiteman et. al. #357 Circuit Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit, from the 114 Federal
Reporter, 2d (series) 1940. Waring v. WDAS Broadcasting Station, Supreme Court of
Pennsylvania (1937). US v. AF of M, District Court (N.D.) Illinois E.b. (1942); Petition
for intervention in the AFM case by RCA Victor Division, Radio Corp. of America; Copy
of Coll. Agreement Contract for Symphony Orchestra, Columbia Recording Corp.; List
of companies that have signed DECCA agreements with AFM; Letter from James C. Petrillo
(PRES. AFM) to Davis (Ch. NWLB); Clippings regarding: the Petrillo case
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Notes regarding Case no.111-2499-D
|
1943 |
Scope and Contents
"Draft Opinion for the Petrillo Case" (1943) Regarding: Board decision that case may
indeed lead to a substantial intelligence with the war effort. This refers to the
above case by William A. Waldron. Petrillo is the name of the Pres. of the AFM. "Memo
to Mr. William H. Davis regarding: Petrillo Case" (1943) By William A. Waldron. Regarding:
position of the parties as to the appropriateness of the Board decision to take jurisdiction
over the case; Index of abstract regarding: Electrical Transcriptions (refers to case),
Whereas RCA is also engaged in the mfg. and sale of phonograph records, the AFM ban
has also affected its members from sewraing RCA thus RCA desires to intervene and
become a formal party to the proceedings; "A Committee of the N.A.B." (National Association
of Broadcasters 1943, no author). Statement questioning the responsibility of NAB
for a press statement released by the Music Sterring Committee, NAB. - "(Unemployment)"
(labeled Paul's [Hays] Original Draft) (N.D.) Regarding: unemployment of musicians
mechanical reproduction of music as depriving musicians of employment (2 drafts) (N.D.)
- 8 pgs. Part of a larger paper, "Small Station Finarices" (ND) (no author) Regarding:
financial problems faced by radit co. -"History of Controversy" handwritten in [Paul
Hay's] (ND) Regarding: the history of the controversy (2 drafts). -"Jurisdiction of
NWLB" handwritten in Paul's 2nd draft discarded- regarding: the jurisdiction of the
NWLB - Draft/ Regarding: the employment fund (no date) (no author). - "Memorandum
of Conference with Employer Group 10/1/1943" (no author, ND) Regarding: conference
request by er after they analyzed the Decca and the Union contract- & list of their
objections to the contract.
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Personnel Directory NY State Bd. Of Mediation
|
1950 |
Box 2 | Folder 3 |
Mss. Draft
|
1944 |
Scope and Contents
of case before the NWLB; Western Union Telegraph Co. (NY, NY) vs. American Communications
Association, CIO.
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 4 |
Pub by US DOL BLS, National War Labor Bd.
|
1922 |
Scope and Contents
History of its formation and activities, together with its awards and the documentation
of importance in the record of its development
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 5 |
Office of War Mobilization & Recon. Administrative Etc. (W.R. Daulin) carbons and
original letters of letters of Myers to various staff members of office of War, Mobilization
and Reconversion
|
1945-1947 |
Scope and Contents
regarding: travel arrangements expense reimbursement. Also, 2 receipt booklets "Gov't
Requests for Transportation" put out by the Office for Emergency Management NWLB &
Office of War Mobilization & Reconversion (OWMR)
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 6 |
US Conciliation Service Special File (1945-46) letters with attachments (some telegrams)
|
1945-1946 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence between: Meyer & Edgar F. Warren (Director, US Conciliation Service
US-DOL), also a few from Meyer's admin. Assistant & Meyers. Regarding: Meyer appointment
to Special Advisory Committee Conciliation Service setup, purposes, function; Meyers
acceptance to special advisory committee: Maritime disputes (NMU & American Merchant
Marine Institute) payment for care work; Case US Steel Corp v. Steelworkers. Attachments
regarding: labor-management advisory committee, US Conciliation Service Statement
of Labor Policy; Summary of comments by various persons on "Nathan P. Feinsinger Clark
Kerr-John E. Roe- Report on the Fact Finding Process;" "Recap of Positions in the
Conciliation Service by grade under the present, proposed, and 1947 Budget Organization
Plan;" "Minutes of the Advisory Committee to the Director of the US Conciliation Service
1945," Agenda USCS (1945, "Proposed Organization Bureau of Mediation and Arbitration
US-DOL; Report of the Committee on Industrial Relations- Resolutional- Conciliation
Services."
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 7 |
National Wage Stab. Bd. General
|
1946 |
Scope and Contents
Includes: press release 1946 regarding office move of Reg. Wage Stab. Bd; letter from
Meyer to NWSB (1946) requesting payment for all.
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 8 |
Murray Latimer (?) Meyer to Murray Latimer (OWMR) (position not mentioned)
|
1945-1946 |
Scope and Contents
routine correspondence of requests for copies of reports and appointments including
telegrams. Also letters regarding study of the steel industry: guaranteed wage plan
in the electrical industry, guaranteed wage study organization (such as which industries
should be selected for the purpose of reorganization and stabilization studies) aspects;
"A proposal for gov't guarantee of er who adopted the annual wage plan;" and as an
attachment a copy of the "Guaranteed Wage Plan Study" (ND) (prepared by Latimer).
(Official directive emphasizes the connection between guaranteed wage plans and the
stabilization of employment and the regularization of production). News Release Form
OWMR date, regarding the first installment of the guaranteed wage study.
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 9 |
Guaranteed Wage (G.W.) General Correspondence. (Literature, books, articles, etc.)
|
1945-1946 |
Scope and Contents
Report: "Justification of Budget for study of G.W. plans (1945)," "Application of
Income Taxes to Funds Implementing Wage Guarantees (1946)." Correspondence between
Meyers and Mat Heineman (VP Franklin Buick Advertising Corp); Paul Joerzog (NWLB);
Arthur Jacobs; (Exec. Labor Letter); Thomas McManus (Assistant Counsel Joint Reg.
Committee on Industrial and Labor Conditions); NP Feinsinger (Law Professor, U. of
Wisconsin); Samuel H. Thompson (Assistant Director, National Planning Assoc.); William
H. Davis (Director of Eco. Stab.); Katherine Pollak Fllickson (Assistant Director
of Research, CIO) regarding chiefly routine (requesting copies of complements, critiques
on articles in magazines, addresses), setting up appointments. Arguments used in the
maritime and trucking strikes; industry investigation in respect to the annual wage;
study of the steel industry; gov't interest payments: Proctor & Gamble plan. Nunn-Busch
Plan- Unites three factors: 1. Payment to worker of a fixed % of volume of business
done, 2. Guaranteed min. annual wage, fluctuating with skill level, 3. Overtime work
at straight pay to balance hours not worked during the slack period. Also, clippings,
bibliography of union agreements guaranteeing employment on annual wage plans
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 10 |
G.W. Applications for Positions and Related Correspondence
|
1945-1946 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondent: Meyer and various job applicants regarding positions and salary structure.
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 11 |
Guaranteed Annual Wage
|
1947 |
Scope and Contents
Meyer; letters regarding guaranteed wage reports routine- chiefly about receival of
report (thank you notes)
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 12 |
NWLB Administrative and General Matters, Reports, etc. File #2
|
1943 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondents: Meyers, George Taylor (NWLB), William A. Waldron (NWLB). Correspondence
regarding decision to sign affidavit (affidavit says that if Meyer faces unnecessary
pressure to divulge or to procure information in connection with the US War Program-
that I'll inform my immediate supervisors of this and notify the investigations office
of the Office for Emergency Management). Coal dispute and relationship to the Wage
Stab. Program (possible claim under Fair Labor Standards Act under which the dispute
can be settled and possible modification of the Little Steel ----- ); Illinois Coal
Operators Assoc. v. UMWA agreement and their possible attempt to circumvent the Wage
Stab. Policy; Publishers Assoc. of NY regarding Bds. NWLB authority with appointing
the arbitrators.
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 13 |
NWLB Administration and General Matters Reports etc. File #1
|
1943 |
Scope and Contents
Letters and telegrams- correspondents: Lloyd Garrison and Meyer Davis, Taylor (1942-43).
Correspondence routine regarding personal appointments of Meters to various positions,
data, thank you notes informational requests. Also, recommendation of Sidney Cohn
as arbitrator to a case Meyer couldn't handle, resignation of position as Assoc. Mb.
of the NWLB and appointment as Mb. of the NY Regional War Labor Board; NWLB Decentralization
Program; Acceptance letter Meyer (Assoc. Mb. NWLB). Also attached to letters: Resolution
on the Title Employees Case before the War Labor Board. Statement regarding Wage Stab.
By Industry Relations Committee; Illinois Reg. Assoc. (1943), -Report-NWLB Decentralization
Plan (1943). Correspondents include: F.D. Roosevelt, William Davis Ch. NWLB.
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 14 |
NWLB Wash. Administrative and General,
|
1945 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: William Brody (Personnel Director NWLB) (1945) and Meyer,
Lloyd K. Garrison (Acting Ch. NWLB). Correspondence regarding Official Record of Personnel
Action covering appointments with the NWLB; position as Ch. of committee to study
the subject of guaranteed wages for the War Mobilization Advisory Bd.; continuation
of appointment with NWLB as ad-hoc Panel Ch. with National as opposed to regional.
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 15 |
[No title]
|
1943 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence concerning routine (bills), receipt of check proposals for --- panel
members, NWLB, request for compensation for per diem; Moving Picture Machine Operators
Union v. Kingsbridge Theater. Also, rough draft of Hoffman Beverage Company and Drivers
and Helper U Inc. reports and recommendation of Hearing Offices and memo of appeals
regarding methods of pay.
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 16 |
1943-NWLB Compensation, Travel, etc.
|
|
Scope and Contents
Including routine correspondence of Meyer with various staff of travel authorization
Office for Emergency Management vouchers (per diem and subsistence items) and letter
stating amount of reimbursements of expenses (treasury checks at one time included
with this letter 1943).
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 17 |
NWLB Fiscal and Travel
|
1944-1945 |
Scope and Contents
Forms: record of official travel; travel authorization (OEM); request for compensation
for per diem personnel; vouchers for per diem and/or reimbursement of expenses incident
to official travel; vouchers; telegrams; letters regarding claims for reimbursement
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 18 |
Region II, NWLB
|
1944-1945 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include Harry Frumenman (Committee Ch. NWLB); Milton Rubin (Committee
Mb. NWLB); William S. Hilger (Sub-Regional Director #9 UAW, CIO); Walter Gellhorn
(Regional Vice Ch. NWLB); Maw J. Miller (Assignment Officer, NWLB). Correspondence
concerns: investigation of personnel needs of private individual; metal trade rates,
City of Lockport; retroactive date in first contract cases, proposed public mbs. (NWLB).
Memo release of NWLB moving of offices, also mss. Notes of letter (ND) (no author).
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 19 |
Waterfront EEs Assn. Series of Additional Cases, File #2,
|
1945 |
Scope and Contents
letters regarding Waterfront Er's Assoc. of California and International Longshores
and Warehouses Union- regarding Board decline of jurisdiction over case to Leonard
Berliner, Director, Disputes Division NWLB, from Meyer
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 20 |
Consolidated Edison (CE) 1942. Consolidated Ed. Of NY vs. International Brotherhood
of Electrical Workers and Brotherhood of Consolidated Edison EEs.
|
1941-1943 |
Scope and Contents
Report of the Hearing Commission, Collective Bargaining Contract, and memo on behalf
of CE of NY with Appendix A Report and findings of Meyer, Hearing Commissioner issues.
"Mbs. should receive construction work undertaken by the Co. (a) when the equipment
moowed is dead or not connected with an electrical outlet (b) when other building
trades are employed," (miss. notes regarding the case).
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 21 |
Pipe Line Case
|
1943-1944 |
Scope and Contents
Transcontinental pipe lines (nic. The George Bolz Dredging Co., International Hod
Carriers, Cominon Laborers Union, International Union of Operating Engineers, United
Association of Journeymen Plumbers and Pipe Fitters, Teamsters Preliminary Facts,
Dissenting Opinion by Ind. Mb. Issue- G. Bolz Dredging was a sub-contractor employed
specifically to construct the Miss. River Crossing (operated strictly on a strictly
u basis) (open-shop basis, result picketed and struck creating a conflict during war
years)- adjoining Missouri Section was being constructed by Oil States Construction
Co. on letters regarding Missouri River Pipeline Crossing, routine matters correspondence
between panel mbs. relating to the case. Also, telegrams. Correspondents include:
NP Feinsinger (NWLB); Robert H. Zetzman (Colgate-Palmolive Pest Co.); James A. Wilson
(International Labor Office); Meyer (1943-1944).
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 22 |
Firestone Matter 1943 Firestone Tire and Rubber Company
|
1943 |
Scope and Contents
Includes telegrams and letters (chiefly routine). Also concerns: thoughts underlying
primary draft of opinion, elimination of difference in wage rates in fourteen plants,
North-South differential continued but not increased, treatment accorded to Memphis
regarding u security and right differentials should be the same as other plant. Correspondents
include: Lipscomb Davis (Davis Cabinet Co.); Graham H. Anthony (Veeder Root Inc.);
Morton Barrisch Vleyer (Mediation Assistant NWLB); Martin Polin (Panel Assistant NWLB).
Also, miss. notes referring to the case
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 23 |
National WLB Personnel and other Matters"
|
1941-1942 |
Scope and Contents
forms and cover letter- voucher for per diem and/or reimbursement of expenses incident
to travel; request for compensation for per diem personnel. Routine correspondence
regarding travel expenses/reimbursement and "standardized gov't travel regulations"
1941 pamphlet chiefly Meyer and various travel clerks and administrative assistants
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 24 |
Regional War Labor Board
|
1943 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Theodore Kheel (Regional WLB); Peter K. Hawley (CIO Labor
Mb.); Meyer; Jules S. Fruind Esq. (Exec. Soc.); New York State Board of Mediation;
Eric W. Doebler (UP Long Island Lighting Company); Robert Abelow (Exec. Dir. NWLB).
Correspondence regarding William A. White and sons acting as agents for the Park-Lexington
Co. regarding wages. S & S Corrugated Machinery Co. regarding divergence of opinions
and manners of resolving problems of inflation; Public Panel Mbs. (approved) and (proposed)
referrals for certification; approval of wage increase - Long Island Lighting Co.,
Queens Borough Gas & Electric Co. and Nassau & Suffolk Lighting Co; also contains
a case in front of the NWLB between IBEW and above named companies regarding wage
rate adjustment (Little Steel Formula). Memo- screening of public panel mbs; outlining
of rules for processing of wage applications where in have intervened. Also, S&S Corrugated
Paper Machinery to include dissenting opinion of labor mbs.
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 25 |
U.S. Conciliation Service 1946 Press Wireless Inc.
|
1946 |
Scope and Contents
(Materials in 1 FF-2 FF pertain to following case, arbitrated by Meyer 1946). Press
Wireless Inc. vs. American Communications Association, CIO 1946 on the issues of management
rights and unilateral action of employer regarding layoffs, position reclassification,
wages, back pay. Includes: award, and final award of arbitrator (Aug, 1946), miss.
notes (no author) regarding issues, exhibits on Press Wireless case, correspondence
and telegrams of Meyer, chiefly with J.A. Payne (National Pres., Commercial Telegraphers
Union); Dean Dinwooday (Editor-in-chief, Bur. of National Affairs); Alfred Colby (Arbitrator);
NYS Bd. Mediation; Joseph Selly (Pres. American Communications Assn.). Correspondence
regarding arbitration decision, publication of arbitration decision, routine business
of handling case, request for bills and information (1946)
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 26 |
1946 ASM Press Wireless Inc. 1946, exhibits and minutes.
|
1946 |
Scope and Contents
consists of additional materials pertaining to the above case of Press Wireless Inc.
vs. American Communications Assn., 1946). Includes: 2 volumes of minutes of arbitration
hearings (Aug. 19, 26, 1946) before A.S. Meyer; notes and a graph comparing average
and actual volume of wordage output for non-supervisory employees vs. supervisory
employees (ND) (company not mentioned).
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 27 |
U.S. Conciliation Service General Electric and Westinghouse Matters,
|
1944-1946 |
Scope and Contents
United Electric Radio and Machine workers of Am. (UE) and General Elective Co. (1945).
Issues include: wages (elimination of sex differentials and minority hiring in rate.
Included in FF are summary and conclusions, copies of correspondence between UE and
GE regarding $2 per day wage increase, Papers regarding GE Decentralization Program,
Agreed Statement of Facts and Requests for Order, Supplementary Recommendations, New
Releases NWLB, Recommendations, Opinions (the above is contained in a folder called
"Summary and Pertinent Appendices General Elections- Westinghouse"). Also, a new case
docket Westinghouse and UE- Agreed Statement dates of Facts and Requests for Order.
(Does material following pertain to UE or W-house?) Correspondence include: E.D. Spicer
(U.P.) (G.E. Co.); Joseph Dermody (International Rep. UE); CE Wilson (Pres. G.E.);
James J. Matles (Dir. Of Org. UE); WG Marshall (UP-Westinghouse Electric Corp.); Edward
Matthews (International Rep.); Meyer. Also includes: Agreements- Westinghouse and
UE Agreement, strike settlement agreement (Appendix and Supplement V), Agreement between
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. and others and UE and others and Local
Supplements Sharon Wks, 1945, Agreement between Westinghouse and UE Supplement IV-
supplement to 1944 agreement. Also includes: clippings, New Releases "Trends in Urban
Wage Rates (NWLB) 10-1945" and put out by UE, telegrams, miss. notes relating to the
case. Special report (USCS) John R. Murray- Commissioner of Conciliation, i.e. details
of the case. Statements: Statement of Provision Covering the Lamp Department (regarding
wages and incentives); Gwilym A. Price, Pres. of Westinghouse Electric Corp., regarding
wage offer. Demands: Westinghouse; UE, Westinghouse local's comment on Co. demands.
Letters: Mediators presentation of Westinghouse position in the current wage center,
union response to co. proposals, mediators (Davis and Meyer) report of dispute between
Westinghouse and UE; co. response to mediator's proposals. Also, info requested regarding
hourly paid employees of the Westinghouse Electric Corp. and subsidiaries. Correspondents:
Honorable Lewis B. Schwellenbach (Sec. Of Labor); Gwilym A. Price (Pres. of Westinghouse
Electric Corp); Julius Emspak (Gen. Sec. Treas.); Edward Matthews (International Rep.);
William H. Davis (arbitrator) and Meyers. Also, mediator's summary of case and miss.
notes of his, miss. notes and type written notes relating to the case.
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 28 |
Conciliation Service G.E. and Westinghouse Matters,
|
1946 |
Scope and Contents
News release: NW Stab. Bd. G.E. wage raises. Letters regarding wage increases, information
requests, co. and u demands. Correspondents include: William H. Davis, Meyer, James
Matles (UE), G. Price (Westinghouse).
|
|||
Box 3 | Folder 1 |
New York Telephone Co. and United Telephone Org. (UTO), Opinion and Award of arb.
|
1944 |
Scope and Contents
U claims transfer of employees constitutes a violation of those patrons of the Agreement
which refer to occupational classifications. Also includes: "Submission" in the matter
or Arb. Proceedings pursuant to contract between NY Tel. Co. and U.T.O.; miss. notes
relating to case; routine letters regarding bills, information requests; information
needed for case number of transfers, wages, summary of scheduled jobs requiring replacements
of males or females; bill intro in NYS Assembly an act- "to prohibit discrimination
in notes of --- because of sex and make up an appropriation to the DOL to pay expenses"
i.e. pay for WK. Penciled in "Union Ex 4" transcript of Joint Conference Memo Equal
pay for equal work 1 page. Penciled in Union Ex 2 Appendix C Top Basic Weekly Rates
of Pay and Wage Progression. "Pencil," Ex 1 % of female clerks to total clerks Plant
Departments down state areas and other such exhibits. Letters regarding position regarding
transfer. Charles H. Parsons (Gen. Pres.) to OM Taylor (VP NY Telephone Co.).
|
|||
Box 3 | Folder 2 |
Interborough News Co. and Newspaper and Mail Deliverers Union of Greater NY and vicinity
|
1944 |
Scope and Contents
Award of Arbitrator and Submission, brief on behalf of the newspaper and Mail Deliverers
Union of NY and vicinity, issues- wages. Also includes: miss. notes and minutes of
hearing (1944). Correspondents: Louis Waldman Esq. (attn.), Harry E. Schultz Attn
|
|||
Box 3 | Folder 3 |
Ladies Garment Workers Assoc
|
1945-1946 |
Scope and Contents
1). American Coat and Suit Manufacturing Assoc. Fnc. and ILGWU (1945-46) before the
impartial ch. of the coat and suit industry, union demand for a wage readjustment.
Memo- Am. Cloak and Suit Manufacturing Assoc. 2). Memo- ILGWU and Jt. Bd. of Cloak,
Suit, Skirt and Reefer Makers Union-Reply Memos-Memos on behalf of the Er's Assoc.
with opposition to a wage readjustment. Also includes miss notes (in regard to case),
memo supplementing the award, letters supplying information to various inquiries.
Correspondents: Meyer and various people from the Wage Stab. Bd.
|
|||
Box 3 | Folder 4 |
1947-195 Bdway Corp. and ASUY 195 Broadway Corp. EEs Council Award of Arbitration
(1947) and transcripts of the case
|
1947 |
Scope and Contents
Issues wage and progression adjustments, changes in the length of wage progressions,
wage increases. Also includes: miss. notes regarding case, correspondence regarding
case, other arbitration awards (by Sidney Cohn and Meyer regarding wages and overtime)
and supporting evidence (charts of wage pcall's). Correspondents: Meyer, Henry Meyer-attn.,
Mark Gailinghouse of the Bdway Corp
|
|||
Box 3 | Folder 5 |
As Meyer 195 Bdway Corp. Exhibits 1947, Union and Co. Exhibits an arbitration between
the 195 Corp. and 195 Bdway Corp., EEs Council.
|
1947 |
Scope and Contents
Includes: wage tables, contracts, and copies of BLS and CPI reports.
|
|||
Box 3 | Folder 6 |
Public Service Coordinated Transport & Public Service Interstate Transportation Co.
& Amalgamated Association of St., Electric, Railway and Motorcoach EEs of America
|
1947 |
Scope and Contents
Opinion of the public mbs. of the Bd. of Arbitration. Award of Arbitration; dissenting
opinion of the co. mb. Issues: wages, vacations, holidays. Also includes correspondence
and miss. notes regarding the case. Chief correspondents: George W. Taylor, Ludus
Research Dept., University of Pennsylvania, Meyer, Alfred H. Driscoll, Governor of
New Jersey, Allan Weisenfeld, Secretary State of New Jersey and New Jersey State Bd.
of Mediation
|
|||
Box 3 | Folder 7 |
Envelope #2 1947- Public Service Arbitration (NJSB of M) Union Exhibits and Minutes.
|
|
Scope and Contents
Stenographic transcripts NJ Statutory Bd. of Arbitration between Public Service Coordinated
Transport Co. & Amalgamated Assoc. of St., Electric, Railway and Motorcoach EE's of
America AFL (5 volumes). Pamphlet- Public Utility Mediation and Arbitration Laws,
bit of u exhibits, folder of u exhibits, lists of wages, clauses from past contracts,
co. rules.
|
|||
Box 3 | Folder 8 |
Envelope #1 1947- Public Service Arbitration (NJSB of M) Co. Exhibit.
|
1940-1947 |
Scope and Contents
22nd Annual Report of P.S. Corp. of NJ (1940), DOL, BLS reports, miss. notes relating
to case, 28th Annual Report of Public Service Corp. of NJ (1946), Public Service Exhibits
(Co. Exhibits) regarding wages, maps NY-NY area past agreements (1946).
|
|||
Box 4 | Folder 1 |
Transcript (3 volumes).
|
1950 |
Scope and Contents
Realty Advisory Bd. on Labor Relations, Inc. (on behalf of various ap't house owners,
managing agents) and Local 32-B Building Service EE's Int'l U (1950). "1950 Fact-Finding
Bd.: Hearings Realty Advisory Bd. and Local 32-B, NYC."
|
|||
Box 4 | Folder 2 |
Local 32-B Exhibits.
|
1948-1950 |
Scope and Contents
Includes: 1.) Agreements 1948-49 2.) Demands- Local 32-B through the wage scale committee
for revision and Amendment of the apt. House Agreement to become effective 1950 3.)
Eco Brief in support of the Demands of Local 32-B, Building Service EE's Union submitted
by Robert Nathan Assoc. Consulting Eco. 1950 4.) Summary Brief submitted to the Fact
Finding Bd. on behalf of Local 32-B, Building SEIU by Robert R. Nathan Association
Consulting Eco. (1950) 5.) Tables regarding wage and hourly contract rates, changes
in average annual earnings for workers in industries covered by Unemp. Jus. Laws NYS
(ND) 6.) Miss. notes relating to the case (ND) 7.) Statement of Jules Backman (Assoc.
Prof. Of Eco., NYU) on behalf of Realty Advisory Bd. on Labor Relations, Inc. before
the fact bd. (1950) 8.) Reply Brief on behalf of Realty Advisory Bd. on Labor Relations,
Inc. (1950) 9.) Memo: to Burton A. Zorn from Backman regarding def. of luxury apt.
(1950) and summary of rent stow 10.) Chart NYC- Summary of Income and Expenses Apt.
surveyed 1943-47. 11.) Statement on Rent Control submitted by Robert W. Dowling (Pres.
Of City Investing Co.) NY before Senate Banking and Currency Committee (1949) 12.)
News Release A.) "Realty Advisory Bd. on Labor Relations (1950) regarding rent control
B.) Statement of Positions of Realty Advisory Bd. of Labor Relations incorporated
regarding current negotiations for a new apt. house labor agreement with Local 32-B,
B.S. EIU, AFL 13.) Industry report- hours and earnings (1950) US DOL 14.) Summary
Statement and Report Occupancy characteristics of Higher Rental Apts. in Manhattan
(Deluxe Apt. Committee) (1950).
|
|||
Box 4 | Folder 3 |
Fact Finding Bd. (Realty Advisory Bd. and Local 32-B) Correspondence.
|
|
Scope and Contents
"Reproduction of the NY State Residential Rent Control Law, reproduced by the Metropolitan
Fair Rent Committee." An Act, "to amend the emergency housing rent control land generally,
and making an appropriation for the expenses of the temporary state housing rent commission."
Booklet: "State of NY," Emergency Housing, Commercial and Business Space Rent Control
Laws, printed and distributed by American Banking (only daily banking newspaper) (ND).
Paper: "Income Originating in all Real Estate." Operating Cost Study Residential Real
Estate NY, NY (Office of the Housing Expenditure).
|
|||
Box 4 | Folder 4 |
NYS Bd. of Mediation 1950 RAB and Local 32-B Fact Finding Bd.
|
1950 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence (carbons and originals) (1950) chiefly between Meyer, Herbert Wecholer
(Columbia University), Burton A. Zorn, Prof. Joseph A. Chamberlain (Legislative Drafting
Research Funds Columbia), Louis J. Walinsky from Robert R. Nathan Assoc. Inc. Consulting
Economist regarding routine correspondence (including information requests) effect
of borrowing in the rent law part our building service report; breakdown of the average
annual earnings in service occupations in NYC. Miss. copy of [Building Service Report]
(ND), telegrams and clippings (1950), remarks of David Sullivan (pres. Local 32-B
BSEIU at meeting State Mediation Bd.) 1950.
|
|||
Box 4 | Folder 5 |
Fact Finding Bd. Recommendations in the RAB and Local 32-B case.
|
1942-1950 |
Scope and Contents
Before the NWLB "Dispute involving the Realty Advisory Bd. on Labor Relations Inc.
and Local 32-B of the B. SEIU Brief statement of the issues in the controversy in
accordance with Rule co. of the Bd.'s Rules of Procedures." Also includes: Exhibits
The Sloan Decision (1939, defines what buildings shall become signator and operate
under the agreement), Demands made by the Union through the wage scale Committee for
Revision and Amendment of the Sloan Agreement to become effective 1942, Sloan Agreement
Renewal counter proposal from Realty Advisory Bd. on Labor Relations to Local 32-B
(1942), The A.S. Meyer Agreement (1942-45) terms agreed at as a result of his award.
Also includes: counter proposals, wage scales and hours people work. Building SEIU
and Realty Advisory Bd. on Labor Relations, Report of the Arbitrators (1950). (Joseph
P. Chamberlain, William H. Davis, Meyer Ch.)
|
|||
Box 4 | Folder 6 |
Testimony (probably grievance cases) Houston, TX
|
1918 |
Scope and Contents
(2 volumes), no information as to what they're really about.
|