U.S. Emergency Board No. 111 Records

Collection Number: 5042

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

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:

U.S. Emergency Board No. 111 Records, 1952-1955

Collection Number:

5042

Creator:

U.S. Emergency Board

Quantity:

1 linear ft.

Forms of Material:

Records (documents).

Repository:

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

Abstract:

Transcripts and exhibits, Emergency Board no. 111, 1955. Wage-rules case. International Brotherhood of Teamsters and Brotherhood of Railway Clerks vs. Railway Express Agency.

Language:

Collection material in English

ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY

Prior to 1918 several independent express agencies for delivering freight from the railroad car to the customer existed in the railroad industry . In 1918 several of the independents merged to form the American Railway Express Company, and in 1929 it was purchased by the Class I railroads and renamed Railway Express Agency.

While many of the employees were used jointly as express or railroad employees, and the laws which apply to the rail- road industry were applied to the agency, the vehicular drivers were represented by both the teamsters and the railway clerks. This led to constant friction, each organization trying to secure more for its members than the other.

Following an appeal to the National Mediation Board in 1937, a mediation agreement was signed, giving the teamsters jurisdiction over chauffeurs, helpers and garage men in New York, Newark, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis and San Francisco The balance of the employees were to be members of the railway clerks,

The Mediation Agreement did not eliminate all the friction. Eighteen emergency boards had been appointed by the president to resolve disputes between the parties prior to the current one,

On January 1. 1955 the teamsters sent a letter to the Agency expressing a desire to revise and modify the rules of the locals operating in New York City. The request was acknowledged and a conference arranged at which the company proposed that the national agreement with the teamsters apply to New York City as well as to the other cities. Several conferences were held, but no agreement was reached. The National Mediation Board took jurisdiction on May 12, but was unable to compose the difference in mediation. The organizations proposed to stop work on July 4, 1955.

The President appointed an emergency board consisting of Robert G. Simmons, Benjamin C. Roberts and Morrison Handsaker under Executive Order 10622 on July 1, 1955. The Board held bearings and submitted its report to the President

on August 1, 1955.

SUBJECTS

Names:

Brotherhood of Railway Clerks.

International Brotherhood of Teamsters.

Railway Express Agency.

Subjects:

Arbitration, Industrial--Railroads.

Form and Genre Terms:

Records (documents)

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Cite As:

U.S. Emergency Board No. 111 Records #5042. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.

RELATED MATERIALS

CONTAINER LIST

Container		Description	Date
Box 1		Transcripts, Exhibits (Company, Union, Board)
Box 1	Folder 1	Transcripts. 12 Volumes, 1411 pages
Box 1	Folder 2	Company Exhibit A. Photostatic Copy - Union Demands.
Box 1	Folder 3	Company Exhibit B. Photostatic Copy - Management's Response Containing Counter Demands
Box 1	Folder 4	Company Exhibit C. Wooley Emergency Board Report	1946
		May 23, 1946
Box 1	Folder 5	Company Exhibit D. Report of Cole Emergency Board	1949
		May 6, 1949
Box 1	Folder 6	Company Exhibit E. Devaney Emergency Report to the President	1940
		July 10, 1940
Box 1	Folder 7	Company Exhibit F. Stone Emergency Board report	1941
		November 17, 1941
Box 1	Folder 8	Company Exhibit G. Increases, Decreases, and Adjustments in Express Wage Rates, Brotherhood of Railway Clerks and International Brotherhood of Teamsters	1919
		July 1, 1919-Present (?)
Box 1	Folder 9	Company Exhibit H. Agreement with the Teamsters
Box 1	Folder 10	Company Exhibit I. Agreement with the Clerks
Box 1	Folder 11	Company Exhibit J. Appendage to Clerks' Agreement
Box 1	Folder 12	Company Exhibit K. Morse Board award
Box 1	Folder 13	Company Exhibit L. Supplementary report of the Morse Board
Box 1	Folder 14	Company Exhibit M. Sharfman Award
Box 1	Folder 15	Company Exhibit N. Shaw Board Report
Box 1	Folder 16	Company Exhibit O. Calkins Board Report
Box 1	Folder 17	Company Exhibit P. Stacy Board Report
Box 1	Folder 18	Company Exhibit Q. Swaim Board Report
Box 1	Folder 19	Company Exhibit R. Edwards Board Report
Box 1	Folder 20	Company Exhibit S. Meyer Board Report
Box 1	Folder 21	Company Exhibit T. Lapp Board Report
Box 1	Folder 22	Company Exhibit U. Leiserson Board Report
Box 1	Folder 23	Company Exhibit V. Lewis Board Report
Box 1	Folder 24	Company Exhibit W. Wage Adjustment Order Number 1
Box 1	Folder 25	Company Exhibit X. Loring Board Report
Box 1	Folder 26	Company Exhibit Y. Mess more Board Report
Box 1	Folder 27	Company Exhibit Z. Agreement incorporating the recommendations of the Messmore Board Report	1954
		March 26, 1954
Box 1	Folder 28	Company Exhibit AA. Map entitled "Routes Between Points"
Box 1	Folder 29	Company Exhibit BB. "Proposals for Rule Changes
Box 1	Folder 30	Company Exhibit CC. Volume of Traffic Handled on Four Holidays in Relation to Specified Other Days
Box 1	Folder 31	Company Exhibit DD. Estimated added cost
Box 1	Folder 32	Company Exhibit EE. Vacation schedule
Box 1	Folder 33	Company Exhibit FF. Comparison of straight time hourly earnings of all Railway Express Agency and vehicle employees with those of employees in selected industry groups
Box 1	Folder 34	Company Exhibit GG. Comparison of average hourly earnings of all Railway Express Agency and vehicle employees
Box 1	Folder 35	Company Exhibit HH. Comparison of average weekly earnings of Railway Express employees with those in manufacturing
Box 1	Folder 36	Company Exhibit II. Comparison of straight time hourly earnings of Railway Express employees with those in Class I railroads
Box 1	Folder 37	Company Exhibit JJ. Comparison of average hourly earnings of Railway Express employees with those of non-operating employees
Box 1	Folder 38	Company Exhibit KK. Comparison of average hourly earnings of Railway Express employees with non-operating employees, Class I Railroads
Box 1	Folder 39	Company Exhibit LL. Comparison of increases in basic rates of pay of Railway Express rates of pay and those of non-operating employees	1918-1954
Box 1	Folder 40	Company Exhibit MM. Comparison of changes in hourly rates of pay of Railway Express Agency drivers in New York City and those in general trucking industry	1921- 1954
Box 1	Folder 41	Company Exhibit NN. Changes in consumers price index	1953-1955
		December 1953-January 1955
Box 1	Folder 42	Company Exhibit OO. Comparison of average number of shipments handled per vehicle employee man hour by International Brotherhood of Teamsters employees in 8 cities and all Railway Express Agency vehicle employees	1946-1954
Box 1	Folder 43	Company Exhibit PP. Comparison of productivity of Railway Express Agency vehicle employees represented by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters with the productivity of Class I Railroads
Box 1	Folder 44	Company Exhibit QQ. Comparison of productivity of vehicle employees in 8 cities with railroads and with output per man-hour in selected manufacturing industries
Box 1	Folder 45	Company Exhibit RR. Indices of production of employees with Railway Express Agency as contrasted with those of Class I Railroads
Box 1	Folder 46	Company Exhibit SS. Same comparison as RR in terms of production per man hour
Box 1	Folder 47	Company Exhibit TT. Standard Express Operations Agreement
Box 1	Folder 48	Company Exhibit UU. "Results of operations for the years 1929 to 1954, inclusive"	1929-1954
Box 1	Folder 49	Company Exhibit VV. Reproduction of page 62, Annual Report of Railway Express Agency, Incorporated, to the Interstate Commerce Commission - year ending December 31, 1954.	1954
Box 1	Folder 50	Company Exhibit WW. Estimated cost of increases as applied to vehicle employees at 8 cities involved for year ended December 31, 1954	1954
Box 1	Folder 51	Company Exhibit XX. Estimated cost of increases for Railway Express Agency employees excluding thosefor the year ended December 31, 1954	1954
Box 1	Folder 52	Company Exhibit YY. "Railroad revenues and costs - express traffic"
Box 1	Folder 53	Company Exhibit ZZ. Computation of railroad costs incident to express service for Class I Railroads	1954
Box 1	Folder 54	Company Exhibit AAA. Record of gross national product beginning with year 1939 and number of express shipments handled each year	1939
		1939- ?
Box 1	Folder 55	Company Exhibit BBB. Graph representing volume of parcel post traffic handled between 1939 and the present	1939
		1939-?
Box 1	Folder 56	Company Exhibit CCC. Estimated intercity ton miles of Class I, II, and III motor trucks volume from 1939 to 1954	1939-1954
Box 1	Folder 57	Company Exhibit DDD. Graph showing growth of air freight from 1945 to 1955	1945-1955
Box 1	Folder 58	Company Exhibit EEE. Graph showing volume of freight forwarder traffic received from shippers between ears 1943 and 1954	1943-1954
Box 1	Folder 59	Company Exhibit FFF. Graph showing volume of freight transportation hauled by line haul railways in period 1939 to 1953	1939-1953
Box 1	Folder 60	Company Exhibit GGG. Graph showing fluctuations in volume of express shipments from 1939 to 1954
Box 1	Folder 61	Union Exhibit 1. Freight contract of Local 445, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehouse and Helpers of America
Box 1	Folder 62	Union Exhibit 2. Blank copy of contract of paper products and miscellaneous Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers Local 27
Box 1	Folder 63	Union Exhibit 3. Copy of Agreement of Truck Drivers Local Union 807
Box 1	Folder 64	Union Exhibit 4. Agreement of Highway and Local Motor Freight Drivers, Dockmen and Helpers, Local Union 707
Box 1	Folder 65	Union Exhibit 5. Express and General Trucking Agreement between express Drivers and Chauffeurs and General Trucking Chauffeurs of Local Union 816
Box 1	Folder 66	Union Exhibit 6. Teamster Area-wide Negotiating Committee and Local 282, Memorandum of Agreement
Box 1	Folder 67	Union Exhibit 7. Contracts in the Coal and Oil Industry, Teamsters Local Union 553, New York
Box 1	Folder 68	Union Exhibit 8. Agreement, Truck Drivers Local 282 - Excavating Industry
Box 1	Folder 69	Union Exhibit 9. Agreement, Truck Drivers Local 282 - Chauffeurs in the Building Material Industry
Box 1	Folder 70	Union Exhibit 10. Agreement, Truck Drivers Local 282 - Lumber Industry
Box 1	Folder 71	Union Exhibit 11. Agreement, Truck Drivers Local 282 - Plumbing Industry
Box 1	Folder 72	Union Exhibit 12. Agreement, Local Union 816 - Meat Purveyors and Hotel Supply Industry
Box 1	Folder 73	Union Exhibit 13. Agreement, Teamsters Local Union 138 - Employers engaged in the handling, distribution, storage of plywood, the plywood industry
Box 1	Folder 74	Union Exhibit 14. Agreement, Teamsters Local Union 138 - Employers I the Furniture, Flour, Grocery Teamsters Industry in the City of New York
Box 1	Folder 75	Union Exhibit 15. Agreement, Teamsters Local Union 816 - Employers engaged in the Wine and Liquor Industry
Box 1	Folder 76	Union Exhibit 16. Agreement - Milk Industry
Box 1	Folder 77	Union Exhibit 17. Agreement, Drivers and Chauffeurs Local Union 816 - Meat Market Industry
Box 1	Folder 78	Union Exhibit 18. Contract, Armored Car Drivers
Box 1	Folder 79	Union Exhibit 19. Agreement, Teamsters - Brewing Industry
Box 1	Folder 80	Union Exhibit 101. Letter addressed to Robert C. Hondon, Vice President in Charge of Personnel, giving demands	1955
		February 4, 1955
Box 1	Folder 81	Union Exhibit 102. "BLS Bulletins 911 for 1946 and 1012 for 1950"	1946-1950
		1946 and 1950
Box 1	Folder 82	Union Exhibit 103. "Comparison of the Advantage of Earning Power and So on"
Box 1	Folder 83	Union Exhibit 104. Cartage Agreement, Chicago Local
Box 1	Folder 84	Union Exhibit 105. San Francisco contract
Box 1	Folder 85	Union Exhibit 106. "Northern California Teamsters Security Fund"
Box 1	Folder 86	Union Exhibit 107. Central States Cartage Agreement
Box 1	Folder 87	Union Exhibit 108. "Local Union 100-Covered"
Box 1	Folder 88	Union Exhibit 109. "Local Cartage Local Union 100 Cincinnati"
Box 1	Folder 89	Union Exhibit 110. Addenda
Box 1	Folder 90	Union Exhibit 111. Addenda, Cleveland
Box 1	Folder 91	Union Exhibit 112. "Highway Truck Drivers and Helpers Local 107"
Box 1	Folder 92	Union Exhibit 113. "Trust Agreement"
Box 1	Folder 93	Union Exhibit 114. 1952, Newark.	1952
Box 1	Folder 94	Union Exhibit 115. 1954, Newark supplement	1954
Box 1	Folder 95	Union Exhibit 116. Pensions
Box 1	Folder 96	Union Exhibit 117. Population figures
Box 1	Folder 97	Union Exhibit 118. "Schedule of basic hourly wage rates for chauffeurs in selected Saint Louis industry areas since 1942."	1942
		1942-?
Box 1	Folder 98	Union Exhibit 119. Central States Insurance Program - Health and Welfare
Box 1	Folder 99	Union Exhibit 120. Teamsters Health and Welfare Plans
Box 1	Folder 100	Board Exhibit I. Current Local Agreement - changes Proposed by Organization - Current National Agreement
Box 1	Folder 101	Board Exhibit II. Agreement, New York Metropolitan District
Box 1	Folder 102	Board Exhibit III. Agreement, National Union Shop	1952
		March 31, 1952

Contents

U.S. Emergency Board No. 111 Records

Collection Number: 5042

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