NLRB Oral History Project Miscellaneous, 1975-1980
Collection Number: 5435 OH
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
NLRB Oral History Project Miscellaneous, 1975-1980
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
5435 OH
Abstract:
Transcripts of interviews with forty-eight individuals who participated in the founding
and administration of the National Labor Relations Board and its predecessor, the
National Labor Board (1933-1947).
Creator:
National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
Ross, Philip
Quanitities:
1 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) was created in 1935 under the authority
of the National Labor Relations Act (popularly known as the Wagner Act). Its purpose
was to implement and administer the Wagner Act which affirmed the right of employees
to organize and designate representatives for collective bargaining. Beyond the Board's
Wagner Act powers, the War Labor Disputes Act of 1943 authorized the NLRB to intervene
to settle wartime labor disputes which threatened to impede war production. The Labor
Management Relations Act of 1947 (popularly known as the Taft-Hartley Act), as amended,
defined additional practices forbidden to organized labor and limited NLRB generally
to judicial and policy-making functions.
The NLRB created under the Wagner Act was preceded by two earlier Boards created
by President Roosevelt. The National Labor Board was established in 1933 for the purpose
of adjusting industrial disputes resulting from the president's Reemployment Agreement
or approved code of fair competition under the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA).
The Labor Board was replaced less than a year later by the first National Labor Relations
Board. Both early Boards functioned through regional offices to deal with labor controversies
in the field. The first NLRB ceased to function after the NIRA was declared unconstitutional
in May of 1935.
This collection consists of transcripts of interviews with forty-eight individuals
who participated in the founding and administration of the National Labor Relations
Board and its predecessor, the National Labor Board (1933-1947). The interviews were
directed and designed by James A. Gross (NYSSILR, professor of labor history, law
and collective bargaining) in conjunction with the research and production of his
books, THE MAKING OF THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD, 1937-1947 (SUNY, 1974); and
THE RESHAPING OF THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD, 1937-1947 (SUNY, 1981).
Topics discussed in these interviews include the following: 1. General issues relating
to the NLRB; 2. The National Labor Board (1933-1934); 3. The "old" NLRB (pre-Wagner
Act); 4. The NLRB in the Wagner Act era (1935-1947); 5. The NLRB after Taft-Hartley
(post-1947); 6. Regional offices; 7. The Division of Economic Research; 8. Review,
appeals and enforcement of decisions; 9. Organizations and individuals exerting external
influence on the NLRB; 10. CIO-NLRB relations; 11. A.F. of L.-NLRB relations; 12.
Congress and the NLRB; and 13. Smith Committee investigation of the NLRB.
Respondents who participated in this project include the following NLRB staff members:
David J. Saposs (Economics Division, director); Charles Fahy (general counsel); Edwin
S. Smith (Board member); J. Warren Madden (chairman); Nathan Witt (executive secretary);
William J. Avrutis (attorney); Meta P. Barghausen (secretary to Board chairmen); Wallace
M. Cohen (review attorney); Herbert Fuchs (review attorney supervisor); Howard Lichtenstein
(review attorney); Marcel Mallet-Prevost (assistant general counsel); Benedict Wolf
(administrative organizer); George Bott (trial examiner and attorney); Fannie M. Boyls
(trial examiner, review attorney); Owsley Vose (appeals brief supervisor); and Ogden
W. Fields (executive secretary, permanent under-secretary).
Other respondents include Ernest A. Gross (Legal Division, associate general counsel);
Philip Levy (legislative assistant to Senator Robert Wagner, and legal staff); George
O. Pratt (regional secretary, and chief trial examiner); A. Norman Somers (attorney);
Lloyd Garrison (chairman); Milton Handler (member, and general counsel); Will Maslow
(trial examiner and regional attorney); Stanley S. Surrey (Legal Division); Gerhard
P. Van Arkel (general counsel, member); Ida Klaus (review attorney); Louis G. Silverberg
(Division of Information, director); Ruth Weyand (Enforcement Section, staff attorney);
Thomas I. Emerson (staff attorney); Estelle Frankfurter (administrative aide); George
Bokat (chief counsel); Paul Herzog (chairman); Ben Golden (NY Regional Office, executive
secretary); Isador Polier (review attorney); James J. Reynolds (member); and Howard
W. Kleeb (field examiner). Other respondents include Howard W. Smith (congressman);
Leon H. Keyserlin (legal assistant to Senator Robert Wagner); Ray R. Murdock (aide
to Congressman Abe Murdock); Roger Robb (Smith Committee, associate counsel); Frank
M. Kleiler (secretary to William Leiserson); Charles A. Halleck (congressman); and
Lee Pressman (CIO, general counsel).
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This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and
Procedures for Document Use.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
NLRB Oral History Project Miscellaneous #5435 OH. Kheel Center for Labor-Management
Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
Names:
Avrutis, William J.
Barghausen, Meta P.
Biddle, Francis, 1886-1968
Blankenhorn, Hebert
Bokat, George, 1904-1973
Bott, George
Boyls, Fannie M.
Brickman, Harry, d. 1956
Carmody, John M. q (John Michael), d 1881-1962.
Cohen, Wallace M.
Consedine, William R.
Cushman, Bernard
Denham, Robert N. (Robert Newton), 1885-1954.
Emerson, Thomas I. (Thomas Irwin), 1907-1991
Fahy, Charles, 1892-1979
Fields, Ogden W.
Frankfurter, Estelle S.
Frey, John P. (John Philip), 1871-1957
Fuchs, Herbert, 1905-1988
Garrison, Lloyd
Glaser, Herbert R.
Golden, Ben
Gross, Ernest A. (Ernest Arnold), 1906-1999
Halleck, Charles A. (Charles Abraham), 1900-1986
Handler, Milton, 1903-1998
Herzog, Paul M., 1906-1986
Hillman, Sidney, 1887-1946
Hunt, A. Bruce
Keyserling, Leon H. (Leon Hirsch), 1908-1987
Klaus, Ida
Kleeb, Howard W.
Kleiler, Frank M., 1914-
Leiserson, William
Levy, Philip
Lichtenstein, Howard
Lippmann, Walter, 1889-1974
Madden, J. Warren (Joseph Warren), 1890-1972
Magruder, Calvert, 1893-1968
Mallet-Prevost, Marcel
Maslow, Will
Miller, Jesse I. (Jesse Isidor), 1891-1949
Millis, Harry Alvin, 1873-1948
Moore, John D. (John Denis Joseph), 1874-1940
Murdock, Ray R.
Murray, Philip, 1886-1952
Perkins, Frances, 1880-1965
Polier, Isador
Pratt, George O., 1903-1979
Pressman, Lee, 1906-1969
Reynolds, James J., Jr.
Robb, Roger
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
Rosenfarb, Joseph, d. 1955
Ross, Philip
Saposs, David J. (David Joseph), 1886-1968
Silverberg, Louis G., d. 1975
Smith, Edwin Seymour, 1891-1976
Smith, Howard Worth, 1883-1976
Somers, A. Norman
Stern, Beatrice
Surrey, Stanley S. (Stanley Sterling), 1910-
Taft, Robert A. (Robert Alphonso), 1889-1953
Toland, Edmund M., 1898-1942
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
Van Arkel, Gerhard P.
Vose, Owsley
Wagner, Robert F. (Robert Ferdinand), 1877-1953
Weyand, Ruth
Witt, Nathan
Wolf, Benedict
American Federation of Labor
American Medical Association
Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America
Eagle-Picher Mining and Smelting Company
International Longshoremen's Association. Pacific Coast District.
Liberty League
National Association of Manufacturers (U.S.)
National Lawyers' Committee
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor.
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities.
United States. Congress. House. Special Committee on Un-American Activities (1938-1944)
United States. Congress. House. Special Committee to Investigate the National Labor
Relations Board.
United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Reduction of Nonessential Federal Expenditures.
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on
Civil Liberties.
United States. Interstate Commerce Commission.
United States. National Labor Board.
United States. National Labor Relations Board. Division of Economic Research.
United States. National Labor Relations Board. Office of the General Counsel.
United States. National Labor Relations Board. Review Section.
United States. National Labor Relations Board. Trial Examiners' Division.
United States. National Recovery Administration.
United States. Subversive Activities Control Board.
United States. Supreme Court.
Subjects:
Collective bargaining. Law and legislation. United States.
Collective bargaining. United States. State supervision.
Employee rights. Law and legislation. United States.
Employees, Surveillance of. United States.
Industrial relations. United States. State supervision.
Secondary boycott. Law and legislation. United States.
Strikes and lockouts. Law and legislation. United States.
Strikes and lockouts. United States. State supervision.
Trade-unions. United States. Corrupt practices.
Trade- unions. United States. Recognition.
Trade-unions. United States. State supervision.
Unfair labor practices. United States. State supervision.
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
William Avrutis
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| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
(Mrs.) Meta Barghausen
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| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
George Bokat
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| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
George Bott
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| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
(Miss) Fannie Boyls
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| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Harry Brickman
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| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Wallace Cohen
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| Box 1 | Folder 8 |
William R. Consedine
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| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Bernard Cushman
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| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Thomas I. Emerson
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| Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Judge Charles Fahy
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| Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Ogden Fields
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| Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Miss Estelle Frankfurter
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| Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Herbert Fuchs
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| Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Lloyd Garrison
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| Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Herbert Glaser
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| Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Ben Golden
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| Box 1 | Folder 18 |
Ernest Gross
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| Box 1 | Folder 19 |
Milton Handler
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| Box 1 | Folder 20 |
Paul M. Herzog
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| Box 1 | Folder 21 |
A. Bruce Hunt
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| Box 1 | Folder 22 |
Leon Keyserling
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| Box 1 | Folder 23 |
(Miss) IDA Klaus
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| Box 1 | Folder 24 |
Kleiler, Frank M.
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| Box 1 | Folder 25 |
Philip Levy
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| Box 1 | Folder 26 |
Howard Lichtenstein
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| Box 1 | Folder 27 |
Judge J. Warren Madden
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| Box 1 | Folder 28 |
Marcel Mallet-Prevost
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| Box 1 | Folder 29 |
Will Maslow
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| Box 1 | Folder 30 |
Murdock, Ray
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| Box 1 | Folder 31 |
George O. Pratt
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| Box 1 | Folder 32 |
Lee Pressman
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| Box 1 | Folder 33 |
Roger Robb
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| Box 1 | Folder 34 |
Silverberg, Louis G.
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| Box 1 | Folder 36 |
Howard Smith
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| Box 1 | Folder 37 |
A. Norman Somers
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| Box 1 | Folder 38 |
Stanley Surrey
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| Box 1 | Folder 39 |
Van Arkel, Gerhard
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| Box 1 | Folder 40 |
Owsley Vose
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| Box 1 | Folder 41 |
Ruth Weyand
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| Box 1 | Folder 42 |
Nathan Witt
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| Box 1 | Folder 43 |
Benedict Wolf
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| Box 1 | Folder 44 |
SP-Oral History - NLRB (Gross)
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| Box 1 | Folder 45 |
SP-Oral History - NLRB (Gross)
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| Box 1 | Folder 46 |
SP-Oral History - NLRB (Gross)
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| Box 1 | Folder 47 |
SP-Oral History - NLRB (Gross) - 1980
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| Box 1 | Folder 48 |
Alvin Rockwell, Aug. 27
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Scope and Contents
tape II
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| Box 1 | Folder 49 |
Judge Ivan Peterson, July 29, 1975
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1975 |
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Scope and Contents
tape I
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| Box 1 | Folder 50 |
Judge Ivan Peterson, July 29, 1975
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1975 |
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Scope and Contents
tape I
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| Box 1 | Folder 51 |
Arthur Liff, Charles Schneider, July 25, 1975
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1975 |
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Scope and Contents
tape II
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| Box 1 | Folder 52 |
Arthur Liff, Charles Schneider, July 25, 1975
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1975 |
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Scope and Contents
tape I
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| Box 1 | Folder 53 |
Oscar Smith, July 25, 1975
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1975 |
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Scope and Contents
tape II
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| Box 1 | Folder 54 |
Oscar Smith, July 25, 1975
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1975 |
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Scope and Contents
tape I
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| Box 1 | Folder 55 |
Herbert Glaser, June 27, 1975
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1975 |
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Scope and Contents
tape I
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| Box 1 | Folder 56 |
Herbert Glaser, June 27, 1975
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1975 |
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Scope and Contents
tape II
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| Box 1 | Folder 57 |
Ogden Fields, July 28, 1975
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1975 |
| Box 1 | Folder 58 |
Frank Kleicker, July 24, 1975
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1975 |
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Scope and Contents
tape I
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| Box 1 | Folder 59 |
Frank Kleicker, July 24, 1975
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1975 |
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Scope and Contents
tape II
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| Box 1 | Folder 60 |
William Basinger, July 28, 1975
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1975 |
| Box 1 | Folder 61 |
Marcel Mallet, July 28, 1975
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1975 |
| Box 1 | Folder 62 |
Alvin Rockwell, August 27, 1975
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1975 |
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Scope and Contents
tape II
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| Box 1 | Folder 63 |
Alvin Rockwell, August 27, 1975
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1975 |
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Scope and Contents
tape I
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| Box 1 | Folder 64 |
Robert Kleeb, Oct. 30, 1975
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1975 |
| Box 1 | Folder 65 |
NNFS389 (806)
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Scope and Contents
microfilm reel
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