U.S. Emergency Board under the Taft Hartley Act Records

Collection Number: 5075

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

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:

U.S. Emergency Board under the Taft Hartley Act Records, 1951

Collection Number:

5075

Creator:

U.S. Emergency Board

Quantity:

0.3 linear ft.

Forms of Material:

Minutes (administrative records), reports (documents) .

Repository:

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

Abstract:

Consists of transcripts of minutes of the Board (3 vol.); a typewritten draft of a paper concerning production and marketing of non-ferrous metals; the Board's reports to the president (3 vol.) and a press release on the settlement of the strikes.

Language:

Collection material in English

ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY

This Board of Inquiry was created by President Harry S. Truman on August 30, 1951, according to powers granted to him in the national emergencies section of the Taft-Hartley Act. The purpose of the Board was to report on the disputes involved in industry-wide strikes in the copper and non-ferrous metals industry.

The parties involved in the disputes included the Anaconda Copper Corporation, the Kennecott Copper Corporation, the Phelps Dodge Corporation, and twenty-one zinc and lead mines in the Coeur D'Alene District of Idaho and the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers International Union and the Building Trades Council of the American Federation of Labor. The issues in dispute were wage rates, position reclassification, pensions, and fringe benefits. The major parties agreed on the essentials of a settlement prior to the issuance of the Board's reports.

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

SUBJECTS

Names:

American Federation of Labor. Building and Construction Trades Dept.

American Federation of Labor. Metal Trades Dept.

Anaconda Copper Co.

International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers

Kennecott Copper Company

Phelps Dodge Corporation

United States. Board of Inquiry on the Labor Disputes Involving the Non-ferrous Metals Industry.

Dash, George Allan, Jr., 1908-

Miller, Joseph L.

Seward, Ralph T. (Ralph Theodore), 1907-

Subjects:

Arbitration, Industrial--United States--Cases.

Copper miners.

Miners.

Arbitration, Industrial. Lead industry. United States.

Arbitration, Industrial. Nonferrous metal industries. United States.

Employee fringe benefits. Arbitration, Industrial. United States.

Position classification. Arbitration, Industrial. United States.

Strikes and lockouts. Nonferrous metal industries. United States.

Wages. Arbitration, Industrial. United States.

Wages. Nonferrous metal industries. United States.

Form and Genre Terms:

Minutes (administrative records)

Reports (documents)

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Cite As:

U.S. Emergency Board under the Taft Hartley Act Records #5075. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.

RELATED MATERIALS

CONTAINER LIST

Container		Description
Box 1		Transcripts and Reports Regarding Disputes
Box 1	Folder 1	Transcripts. 3 volumes, 246 pages.
Box 1	Folder 2	Reports to the President on September 4, November 5, and November 15

Contents

U.S. Emergency Board under the Taft Hartley Act Records

Collection Number: 5075

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