Seward, Ralph T. Additional Arbitration Files, 1950-1979
Collection Number: 5700

Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Ralph T. Seward Additional Arbitration Files, 1950-1979
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
5700
Abstract:
Consists of arbitrations mostly to do with the UAW, Teamsters, Newspaper workers, and Airline workers.
Creator:
Seward, Ralph T.
Quanitities:
18 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English

Biographical / Historical

Arbitrator and mediator; member, National Mediation Service, National Defense Mediation Board; impartial umpire for cases involving the dairy, auto and steel industries, among others.
Ralph Seward (BA., Cornell University, 1927; MA., New York University, 1931; LLB., Columbia University, 1935) served as an attorney with the National Labor Relations Board (1936-1937) and was executive secretary (1937-1939) and general counsel (1939) of the New York State Labor Relations Board. He also served as chairman of the Board of Immigration Appeals, U.S. Department of Justice (1939-1941), as executive secretary, National Defense Mediation Board (1941-1942), and as associate public member of the U.S. National War Labor Board (1942) before going into private practice as an arbitrator and mediator. In addition to chairing two Emergency Boards of the National Mediation Service, Seward was impartial chairman for the metropolitan New York milk industry (1942-1944); impartial umpire for General Motors Corporation and the United Automobile Workers (1944-1947); chairman of the Board of Conciliation and Arbitration of United States Steel Corporation and United Steelworkers of America (1947-1949); impartial umpire for International Harvester Company and United Farm Equipment and Metal Workers of America (1949-1951); impartial umpire for Bethlehem Steel Corporation and the United Steelworkers of America (1952); and arbitrator and/or mediator in various other cases.
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Preferred Citation

Ralph T. Seward Additional Arbitration Files #5700. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.

Related Materials

Related Collections: 5069: U.S. Wage Stabilization Board 1952 United Steelworkers of America Case 5113: Ralph T. Seward Arbitration Transcripts and Exhibits 5328: Ralph T. Seward Papers

SUBJECTS

Names:
Seward, Ralph T. (Ralph Theodore), 1907-
Subjects:
Arbitration, Industrial--United States--Sources.

CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
Box 1 Folder 1
Milwaukee Journal, et al. RTS Decision
1962
Box 1 Folder 2
Milwaukee Journal, et al. Exhibits Nos. P-S-E 1 thru 22
1958
Box 1 Folder 3
The Milwaukee Journal, et al. Briefs: Union
Box 1 Folder 4
Milwaukee Journal, et al.: Exhibits -- PJE 1 thru PJE 22
1959
Box 1 Folder 5
Milwaukee Journal, et al. - Exhibits - Board Exhibits Nos. 1 thru 3
1959
Box 1 Folder 6
Milwaukee Journal, Et al. - Exhibits - Nos. P-S 1 thru P-S 8
1957
Box 1 Folder 7
Milwaukee Journal, et al. - Exhibits - PJ-1 thru PJ-24
1957-1959
Box 1 Folder 8
Milwaukee Journal, et al. - Exhibits - Union No. 1 thru 38
1957
Box 1 Folder 9
The Milwaukee Journal, et al. Briefs - Publishers
1960
Box 1 Folder 10
Milwaukee Journal, et al. Union's Dissenting
Box 1 Folder 11
Conemaught and Black Lick RR. Co. United Steelworkers 3176 Grievances Co.
1962
Box 1 Folder 12
Washington Post Company Washington Newspaper Guild AAA
1962
Box 1 Folder 13
Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corp. Aluminum Workers Local 225
1961
Box 1 Folder 14
Bethlehem Steel - Pottstown Plant
1960
Box 1 Folder 15
United Airlines and Int. Assoc. of Machinists
1957
Box 1 Folder 16
Graphics Arts Association Columbia Typographical Union No. 101 "Nugent Brown vs. Union Employers Div.
1954
Box 1 Folder 17
Graphic Arts Association Columbia Typo. Union No. 101
1954
Box 1 Folder 18
Virginia Electric and Power Company, Award
1949
Box 2 Folder 1
Pressman
Scope and Contents
Bound 10 Photographs
Box 2 Folder 2
Printing an 8-Page Newspaper Straight 16-Page Newspaper Collect on the Goss Headliner
1957
Box 2 Folder 3
Milwaukee Web Pressmen's Union
1960
Box 2 Folder 4
Milwaukee Web Pressmen's Union
1960
Box 2 Folder 5
Milwaukee Web Pressmen's Union
1960
Box 2 Folder 6
Milwaukee Web Pressmen's Union
1960
Box 2 Folder 7
Milwaukee Journal, et al. Charts - Extra (Blackboard)
1959
Box 2 Folder 8
IHC - Milwaukee Works - Local 22631
1950-1951
Box 3 Folder 1
Kennecott Copper
1965
Box 3 Folder 2
Kennecott Copper Corporation United Steelworkers 4413 Grievances 51-62-22, 51-63-55
1965
Box 3 Folder 3
International Harvester-Balto. Motor Truck Int. Assoc. Mach. Lodge 199/ Branch Grievance F. Dickens
1965
Box 3 Folder 4
International Harvester-Emeryville UAAAIWA 76 Classification Dispute
1963
Box 3 Folder 5
International Harvester-Canton UAAAIWA 1145 Qualification of Employee Gaynell B. Nash
1963
Box 3 Folder 6
International Harvester - Indianapolis Works UAAAIWA 98 Case 1: Classification Dispute L-93 v L-94
1963
Box 3 Folder 7
International Harvester- Memphis Works UAAAIWA 988 Case No. 5
1963
Box 3 Folder 8
International Harvester- Memphis Works UAAAIWA 988 Case No. 6
1963
Box 3 Folder 9
International Harvester- Ft. Wayne UAAAIWA 57 Case No. 4 Military Furlough
1963
Box 3 Folder 10
International Harvester -Farmall Works UAAAIWA 1309 Classification Dispute P-135 v P-160
1963
Box 3 Folder 11
International Harvester - Farmall Works UAAAIWA 1309 Case No 8: Probationary Termination
1963
Box 3 Folder 12
International Harvester- West Pull- UAAAIWA 307 Classification Dispute P-84-A v B
1963
Box 3 Folder 13
Aerospace Strike (Missile) Hearing (Los Angeles) July 30, 1962
1962
Box 4 Folder 1
Chesapeake and Potomac Tel. Co. of Va. Communications workers of America
1965
Box 4 Folder 2
Wilson and Co., Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butchers Workmen's Local No. 393
1966
Box 4 Folder 3
Kansas City Star, The Kansas City Webb Pressmen Union No. 14 -Overtime Dispute-
1966
Box 4 Folder 4
Kansas City Power and Light I.B.E.W. Local Union 1613 Holiday Pay Question
1966
Box 4 Folder 5
Milk Industry- Local 680 Pension and Welfare Fund Union Trustees and Management Trustees
1966
Box 4 Folder 6
E.I. Du Pont de Nemours and Co. Niagara Falls Plant and Niagara Plant Employees Union Overtime Violation- Art. Section 6
1966
Box 4 Folder 7
American Airlines - Air Line Stewards and Stewardesses Assoc. 550 Discharge Cases Nos. SS-16-68 -and- SS-17-68
1969
Box 5 Folder 1
Western Airlines, Inc. - International Brotherhood of Teamsters (L.A.) RTS AD HOC
1972
Box 5 Folder 2
Western Airlines, Inc. -Los Angeles, Fees and Expenses
1971
Box 5 Folder 3
Western Airlines vs. International Brotherhood of Teamsters Ad Hoc Transcripts
1971
Box 5 Folder 4
Western Airlines vs. International Brotherhood of Teamsters RTS Ad Hoc Union Exhibits
1971
Box 5 Folder 5
Western Airlines - Company Exhibits Nos. 1-58
1971
Box 6 Folder 1
New England High Carbon Wire and United Steelworkers Incentive Arbitration Award
1972
Box 6 Folder 2
C and P Telephone Co. of Maryland Communications Workers of America RTS AD HOC.
1972
Box 6 Folder 3
C and P Telephone Company Fees and Expenses: RTS (Ad Hoc) Hearing Date: March 8, 1972
1972
Box 6 Folder 4
Communications Workers of America and South Central Bell Telephone Company. Mobile, Alabama.
1972
Box 6 Folder 5
So. Central Bell Telephone Co. Fees and Expenses: RTS Mobile, Alabama, May 19-22, 1970
1970
Box 6 Folder 6
American Airlines, Inc. -RTS, AD HOC Stewardesses Local 550 Gr. SS-13-71
1971
Box 6 Folder 7
American Airlines, Inc. -RTS, AD-HOC Stewardesses Local No. 550
1971
Box 6 Folder 8
American Airlines, Inc. Fees and Expenses: RTS Hearing: March 3-4, 1971
1971
Box 6 Folder 9
National Airlines, Inc. - Miami, Fla. Air Line Dispatchers Assoc. Case No. 2-68
1970
Box 6 Folder 10
Machinists and Aerospace Workers vs. United Assoc. of Journeymen and Apprentices of Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry of the U.S. 2nd Canada
1970
Box 6 Folder 11
Machinists and Aerospace Workers vs. IBEW, Bremerton Washington Heard: January 7, 1970 a.m.
1970
Box 7 Folder 1
Southern Bell Telephone v. CWA Greensville, So. Carolina Hearings: February 26, 1976
1976
Box 7 Folder 2
Post Office - Hearing: December 5, 1972 One Case
1972
Box 7 Folder 3
U.S. Postal Service (RTS AD Hoc) National Association Letter Carriers Expense File: Hearings 12/5 and 8/72
1973
Box 7 Folder 4
National Football League W. Jones vs. St. Louis Cardinals
1973
Box 7 Folder 5
St. Louis Cardinals vs. Wendel Jones RTS (Ad Hoc) Fees and Expenses
1973
Box 7 Folder 6
Titanium Metal Corp of America USWA
1972
Box 7 Folder 7
Titanium Metal Corp. USWA
1973
Box 7 Folder 8
Titanium Metal Corp. of America USWA
1973
Box 7 Folder 9
Titanium Metals USWA
1973
Box 7 Folder 10
Titanium Metals Corp. USWA
1973
Box 7 Folder 11
Alleghany Ludlum - USWA
1973
Box 7 Folder 12
Alleghany Ludlum Industries, Inc. United Steelworkers Correspondence Files
1973
Box 7 Folder 13
Postal Service - National Agreement, Contracts, Amendments, etc.
1971
Box 9 Folder 1
Memphis Publishing Company - RTS Newspaper Pressmen, LU 24 Hearings (No. 2)
1975
Box 9 Folder 2
Memphis Newspaper Printing
1975
Box 9 Folder 3
Memphis Hearings 12/17 - 18/75
1975
Box 9 Folder 4
Memphis Notes Joint Exhibits
1975
Box 9 Folder 5
Memphis Company Exhibits
1975
Box 9 Folder 6
Memphis Union Exhibits
1969
Box 9 Folder 7
Briefs Etc.
1975
Box 9 Folder 8
Memphis Publishing Company Memphis Newspaper Printing Pressman's Union No. 24
1975
Box 10 Folder 1
Bermuda - Exhibits
1975-1976
Box 10 Folder 2
Duplicates
1975
Box 10 Folder 4
Gould, Inc. - UAW AAA Case Hearing: Cleveland, Ohio March 22-23, 1976
1976
Box 10 Folder 5
Gould Inc.
1975-1976
Box 11 Folder 1
Newspaper Clippings
1975-1976
Box 11 Folder 2
Union 14
1975-1976
Box 11 Folder 3
Ralph T. Seward
1976
Box 11 Folder 4
Ralph T. Seward
1976
Box 11 Folder 5
Ralph T. Seward
1970
Box 11 Folder 6
Bermuda
1976
Box 11 Folder 7
Bermuda RTS Notes Etc.
1976
Box 11 Folder 8
Bermuda Arbitration Panel
1976
Box 12 Folder 1
Board of Inquiry - Bermuda Industrial Union
1976
Box 12 Folder 2
Wednesday, 31st March, 1976 Commencement
1976
Box 12 Folder 3
Thursday April 1, 1976 Commencement
1976
Box 12 Folder 4
Friday, 2nd April, 1976 Commencement
1976
Box 12 Folder 5
Morning Session 9.4.76
1976
Box 12 Folder 6
Morning Session 10.4.76
1976
Box 12 Folder 7
Morning Session 13.4.76
1976
Box 12 Folder 8
Morning Session 14.4.76
1976
Box 12 Folder 9
Morning Session 15.4.76
1976
Box 12 Folder 10
27th April 1976
1976
Box 12 Folder 11
28th April, 1976
1976
Box 12 Folder 12
29th April, 1976
1976
Box 12 Folder 13
30th April 1976
1976
Box 12 Folder 14
1st May, 1976
1976
Box 12 Folder 15
31st May 1976
1976
Box 12 Folder 16
Bermuda Background
Box 12 Folder 17
Bermuda Working Papers
1973-1976
Box 12 Folder 18
Bermuda Hotel Exhibits
1973-1976
Box 12 Folder 19
Bermuda - Heb 15-26
1973-1976
Box 12 Folder 20
Hotel Employees of Bermuda Exhibit 22
1979
Box 12 Folder 21
Bermuda Board Exhibits
1970-1974
Box 12 Folder 22
Wages Etc.
1976
Box 12 Folder 23
Bermuda Hotel Exhibits 30-69
1976
Box 12 Folder 24
Bermuda Union Exhibits
1976
Box 12 Folder 25
U. 16
1976
Box 13 Folder 1
Kansas City Area Transportation Authority and Amalgamated Transit Union AFL-CIO
1976
Scope and Contents
Bound
Box 13 Folder 2
In the Matter of Arbitration between The Kansas City Area Transportation Authority and Local 1287, Amalgamated Transit Union, AFL-CIO
1976
Scope and Contents
Bound
Box 13 Folder 3
Kansas City Transit Authority Exhibits 161-265 Volume No. 2
1960-1976
Scope and Contents
Bound
Box 13 Folder 4
Area Transit Authority of Kansas City, Missouri -and- Local 1287, Amalgamated Transit Union
1976
Scope and Contents
Bound
Box 13 Folder 5
Area transit Authority -and- Division 1387, Amalgamated Transit Union
1976
Scope and Contents
Bound
Box 13 Folder 6
Area Transit Authority -and- Division 1287 Amalgamated Transit Union
1976
Scope and Contents
Bound
Box 13 Folder 7
Area Transit Authority -and- Division 1287, Amalgamated Transit Union
1976
Scope and Contents
Bound
Box 13 Folder 8
Area Transit Authority -and- Division 1287 Amalgamated Transit Union
1976
Scope and Contents
Bound
Box 13 Folder 9
Area Transit Authority -and- Division 1287, Amalgamated Transit Union
1976
Box 13 Folder 10
Area Transit Authority -and- Division 1287, Amalgamated Transit Union
1976
Scope and Contents
Bound
Box 13 Folder 11
Area Transit Authority -and- Division 1287, Amalgamated Transit Union
1976
Scope and Contents
Bound
Box 13 Folder 12
Area Transit Authority -and- Division 1287, Amalgamated Transit Union
1976
Scope and Contents
Bound
Box 13 Folder 13
Joint Contracts/Agreements
1976
Scope and Contents
Bound
Box 13 Folder 14
Kansas City Area Transit Authority -and- Division 1287, Amalgamated Transit Union
1973-1974
Scope and Contents
Bound
Box 13 Folder 15
Amalgamated Transit Union Exhibits Volume 2
1973-1975
Scope and Contents
Bound
Box 13 Folder 16
Amalgamated Transit Union Exhibits Volume. 1
1976
Scope and Contents
Bound
Box 13 Folder 17
Kansas City Transit Authority Exhibits 1-160 Volume No. 1
1976
Scope and Contents
Bound
Box 13 Folder 18
Kansas City Area Trans. Authority Amalgamated Transit Union, 1287
1976
Box 13 Folder 19
Misc.
1976
Box 13 Folder 20
Misc.
Box 13 Folder 21
Station Service Manual
1974
Scope and Contents
Bound
Box 14 Folder 1
Bermuda Hotel
1977
Box 14 Folder 2
Bermuda Trip - April-May, 1977
1977
Box 14 Folder 3
Hotel Employees of Bermuda Misc.
1977
Box 14 Folder 4
Hotel of Bermuda
1975
Box 14 Folder 5
Washington Gas Company -and- OPEIU, Local 2 RTS ad HOC
1976
Box 14 Folder 6
Washington Gas vs. Office Workers
1976-1977
Box 14 Folder 7
Timet-USWA, Las Vegas, Nevada
1976
Box 14 Folder 8
Timet, Inc. Expense File Hearing: RTS
1976
Box 14 Folder 9
New England Telephone Expense File AAA Case 9/2/76
1976
Box 15 Folder 1
United Steelworkers of America
1974-1977
Box 15 Folder 2
"Rule of 65" Arbtn. Panel Hearing Wash., D.C.
1978
Box 15 Folder 3
Coordinating Committee Steel Companies -and- United Steelworkers of America
1978
Box 15 Folder 4
Rule of "65" Arbtn. Board Seward Garrett Aaron
1978
Box 15 Folder 5
Washington Gas Co. Hearing: Jan. 18, 1977
1977
Box 15 Folder 6
Wash. Gas Co. vs. Int. Gas Workers: Crew Mechanics Jobs
1977
Box 15 Folder 7
Washington Gas-IUGW: Wash., D.C. Hearing: 11/9/76 RTS
1976
Box 16 Folder 1
New York Telephone, N.Y.C. RTS Hearings: 12/15/77
1977-1978
Box 16 Folder 2
So. Central Bell vs. CWA: Expenses Hearing: 11/14-16/77 New Orleans
1977
Box 16 Folder 3
New England Telephone: Expense File Hearing: 1/26-27/1978
1978
Box 16 Folder 4
New England Telephone U.S. IBEW Heard: 1/27/78 Decision: 8/28/78 Discharge of J. Needham Arbitration Board
1978
Box 16 Folder 5
Southern Bell Telephone vs. CWA Hearing: 9/20/77: Greensboro, N.C.
1977
Box 16 Folder 6
So. Bell Tel. vs. CWA: Greensboro, N.C. Expense File: Billed: 3/28/78
1978
Box 17 Folder 1
So. Bell Tel. vs. CWA Hearing: Jan. 29, 1979
1979
Box 17 Folder 2
Pending
1975
Box 17 Folder 3
Western Electric - IBEW, Hearing: 5/23-24/78 Phila, Pa.
1978
Box 17 Folder 4
Western Electric, Reading, Pa. Hearing:
1978
Box 17 Folder 5
So. Central Bell/ CWA: Birmingham, Alabama RTS
1978
Box 17 Folder 6
Arbitration Seminar - AAA Monterey, Calif: 9/18-22/78
1978
Box 17 Folder 7
New York Telephone vs. CWA Ad Hoc Hearing: N.Y.C.
1978
Box 17 Folder 8
The New York Telephone Company -and- Communications Workers of America, AFL-CIO
1978
Box 18 Folder 1
So. Central Bell Enid Grice Discharge Transcripts
1973
Box 18 Folder 2
So. Central Bell Telephone Communications Workers Expense File Hearings 7/73
1973-1974
Box 18 Folder 3
New York Telephone CWAL Case 1-75-93 Travel Allowance: R. Vanvoorhis
1975
Box 18 Folder 4
Aerospace Special Panel - Memos, Legal Papers, RTS' Notes
1973
Box 18 Folder 5
Aerospace Special Panel - Press Releases and News Releases 1973
1973
Box 18 Folder 6
Aerospace
1973-1974
Box 18 Folder 7
Aerospace Special Panel - Press Releases and News Releases 1973
1973
Box 18 Folder 8
Aerospace Panel - Expense File, GTR's and Travel Forms 1973
1973
Box 18 Folder 9
Aerospace Special Panel - RTS Misc. File of ECM's
1974
Box 18 Folder 10
Aerospace Panel - 1973 RTS: General File (Correspondence) Telephone Numbers
1973
Box 18 Folder 11
1973-1974 Aerospace Panel - File #2
1973-1974
Box 18 Folder 12
Washington Publishers Assoc. International Printing and Graphic Union Hearing: 11/20/74
1974
Box 18 Folder 13
New York Telephone Co. and CWA
1974