Day, Edmund Ezra Collection of Bell Aircraft Corporation and UAW, Local 501 Arbitration Files, 1949
Collection Number: 5094

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


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Edmund Ezra Day Collection of Bell Aircraft Corporation and UAW, Local 501 Arbitration Files, 1949
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
5094
Abstract:
Bell Aircraft Corporation and the United Automobile, Aircraft and Agricultural Implement Workers International Union Local 501 : arbitration files, 1949.
Creator:
Day, Edmund Ezra
Bell Arcraft Corporation
International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW)
United Auto Workers (UAW)
Quanitities:
1 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English

Biographical / Historical

This dispute arose over the application of security regulations and economic demands during the renegotiation of the contract. A strike ensued and the company secured an injunction to restrain the mass picketing. Violence resulted in the arrest of some of the strikers. The Commissioner of Labor, Mr. Edward Corsi, appointed a fact-finding board consisting of Edmund Ezra Day, Chairman; DR. Samuel P Copen, Mr. Charles Garside, Mrs. Elinore Herrick and Paul S. Andrews.

Bell Aircraft Corporation and the United Automobile, Aircraft and Agricultural Implement Workers International Union Local 501 : arbitration files, 1949. Contained in this collection are 9 volumes, totaling 1659 pages, includig correspondence, newspapers clippings, exhibits, and materials from the hearing on the injunction.
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Preferred Citation

Edmund Ezra Day Collection of Bell Aircraft Corporation and UAW, Local 501 Arbitration Files #5094. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.

SUBJECTS

Names:
Day, Edmund Ezra, 1883-1951.
Bell Aircraft Corporation
International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America
International Union, United Automobile Workers of America
Subjects:
Arbitration, Industrial--United States--Sources.
Airlines--Employees--Labor unions--United States--Sources.

CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
Box 1 Folder 1
Union's Brief on Proposed Changes in the 1949 Collective Bargaining Agreement - Bell Aircraft Corporation and Local 501
Box 1 Folder 2
Award of Board Inquiry for Arbitration Between Bell Aircraft and Local 501 (1/10/1950)
Box 1 Folder 3
Union Position on Proposed Contract
Box 1 Folder 4
Clippings
Box 1 Folder 5
Award of Board Inquiry Regarding Arbitration Between Bell Aircraft Corporation and Local 501 (1/10/1950)
Box 1 Folder 6
Award of Board Inquiry - Bell Aircraft Corporation and Local 501 (1/10/1950)
Box 1 Folder 7
Board Correspondence
Box 1 Folder 8
Union Position of Proposed Contract
Box 1 Folder 9
Miscellaneous Board
Box 1 Folder 10
Correspondence and Communications
Box 1 Folder 11
Conflicting Data
Box 1 Folder 12
Awards and Clippings
Box 1 Folder 13
Bell Wage Rates and Retirement Plan
Box 1 Folder 14
Bell Aircraft Corporation (Wheatfield Plant) - Wage Rate Charts 1949
Box 1 Folder 15
Bell Dispute Agreements Reached
Box 1 Folder 16
Andrew's Draft of the Award
Box 1 Folder 17
Interim Award
Box 1 Folder 18
UAW-Bell Agreement
Box 1 Folder 19
Agreements and Documents and Miscellaneous
Box 1 Folder 20
Board of Inquiry Report
Box 1 Folder 21
Contracts Signed With and Without Wage Increases
Box 1 Folder 22
Agreement Between Bell Aircraft Corporation and Local 501
Box 1 Folder 23
Union's Brief on Proposed Changes in the 1949 Collective Bargaining Agreement Between Bell Aircraft Corporation and Local 501
Box 1 Folder 24
NYS Board of Inquiry - Bell Aircraft Corporation and Local 501 Memorandum Brief
Box 1 Folder 25
Company Position on Proposed Contract
Box 1 Folder 26
Data on the NYS Strike and Miscellaneous
Box 1 Folder 27
Board of Inquiry Hearings (October 2,1949 - December 7, 1949)
Box 1 Folder 28
Bell-UAW (December 6, 1949)
Box 1 Folder 29
Board of Arbitration: Bell-UAW (November 23,1949)
Box 1 Folder 30
Board of Arbitration: Bell-UAW (November 21-22, 1949)
Box 1 Folder 31
Board of Arbitration: Bell-UAW (November 1, 1949)
Box 1 Folder 32
Board of Inquiry: Bell-UAW (October 15, 1949)
Box 1 Folder 33
Board of Arbitration: Bell-UAW (October 26-28)
Box 1 Folder 34
Board of Inquiry: Bell-UAW (October 14,1949)
Box 1 Folder 35
Board of Inquiry: Bell-UAW (October 12,1949)
Box 1 Folder 36
Board of Inquiry: Bell-UAW (October 13,1949)
Box 1 Folder 37
Supreme Court, Niagara County
Box 1 Folder 38
Board of Inquiry: Bell-UAW (December 7, 1949)