U.S. Emergency Board No. 116 Reports and Exhibits, 1957
Collection Number: 5044

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


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
U.S. Emergency Board No. 116 Reports and Exhibits, 1957
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
5044
Abstract:
Consists of the Board's report to the president and employee and carrier exhibits. Transcripts of proceedings and exhibits of the Emergency Board No. 116, 1956. Wage and benefiy case. Akron and Barbarton Belt Railroad Company and other carriers represented by the Eastern, Western and Southestern Carriers Conference Committees and the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, 1946-1957.
Creator:
U.S. Emergency Board
Quanitities:
1 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English

Biographical / Historical

In 1956 and 1957, U.S. Emergency Board No. 116 heard a dispute beetween carriers represented by the Eastern, Western, and Southeastern Carriers' Conference Committees and employees represented by the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Parties to the dispute, which was over wages and paid holidays, included 175 class 1 railroads and 160,000 operating railroad workers.
The Emergency Board recommended an increase of 26 1/2 cents per hour to be given in three steps over a three year agreement. It also proposed seven paid holidays for regular service yardmen but turned down a similar holiday allowance for operating craft workers.

Consists of the Board's report to the president and employee and carrier exhibits.
Employee exhibits deal with position classification, comparative wage analysis, productivity, hours of work, paid holidays and work hazards. Carrier exhibits relate to pattern settlements of railway labor disputes, comparative wage and earning data, position descriptions, work measurements, hours of work, working conditions, crew consist, and the economic conditions of the railroad industry, among others.
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Preferred Citation

U.S. Emergency Board No. 116 Reports and Exhibits #5044. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.

SUBJECTS

Names:
Akron and Barberton Belt Railroad
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
Eastern Carriers' Conference Committee
Southeastern Carriers' Conference Committee
United States. Emergency Board No. 116.
Western Carriers' Conference Committee
Subjects:
Mediation and conciliation, Industrial--United States--Cases.
Railroads--United States--Finance.
Railroads--Employees.
Employee fringe benefits. Mediation and conciliation, Industrial. United States.
Hours of labor. Mediation and conciliation, Industrial. United States.
Job descriptions. Mediation and conciliation, Industrial. United States.
Labor productivity. Mediation and conciliation, Industrial. United States.
Mediation and conciliation, Industrial. Railroads. United States.
Railroads. United States. Full crew rules.
Railroads. United States. Safety measures.
Wages. Arbitration, Industrial. United States.
Wages. Railroads. United States.
Working conditions. Mediation and conciliation, Industrial. United States.

CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
Box 1 Folder 1
Report to the President By the Emergency Board
1957
Box 1 Folder 2
BRT Wage Rules Movement, Carriers' Exhibits
1956
Box 1 Folder 2
BRT Wage Rules Movement, Carriers' Exhibits
1956
Box 1 Folder 3
1956 Wage Rules
1956
Box 1 Folder 4
1956 BRT Wage Rules Movement, Carriers Exhibits
1956