Seward, Ralph Additional Papers, 1942-1991
Collection Number: 5970

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


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Ralph Seward Additional Papers, 1942-1991
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
5970
Abstract:
Consists of National Academy of Arbitrators (NAA) records and arbitration decisions regarding United Steelworkers of America (USWA), United Auto Workers (UAW), Communication Workers of America (CWA), Airlines, and Telephone Companies.
Creator:
Seward, Ralph
Quanitities:
12 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 Seward Additional Papers #5970. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.

Related Materials

Related Collections: 5328: Ralph T. Seward Papers 5069: U.S. Wage Stabilization Board 1952 United Steelworkers of America Case 5113: Ralph T. Seward Arbitration Transcripts and Exhibits 5700: Ralph T. Seward Additional Arbitration Files 5779: Ralph T. Seward Additional Arbitration Files

SUBJECTS

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

CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
Box 1
NAA files; Arbitration files; speeches.
Box 1 Folder 1
News Clipping: RTS
1976-1977
Box 1 Folder 2
National Academy of Arbitrators
1987
Box 1 Folder 3
N.A.A. American Bar Association Committee Report on the Training of New Arbitrators for Academy Action
1962
Box 1 Folder 4
N.A.A. - Continuing Cooperation with Appointing Agencies Bill Simkin's Correspondence
1959
Box 1 Folder 5
N.A.A. Committees - Continuing Cooperation with Appointing Agencies
1958
Box 1 Folder 6
N.A.A. - Special Committee on Continuing Cooperation with Appointed Agencies - Meeting of Central Group and AAA - New York City - January 16, 1960
1960
Box 1 Folder 7
N.A.A. Committees - Special Committee on Grievance Machinery
1964
Box 1 Folder 8
N.A.A. Newsletters
1961-1962
Box 1 Folder 9
N.A.A. Committees - Development and Long Range Goals
1962-1964
Box 1 Folder 10
N.A.A. - Dues Waiver Policy Committee - and Related Correspondence
1976
Box 1 Folder 11
National Academy of Arbitrators - Ethics Committee
1955-1986
Box 1 Folder 12
N.A.A. Committee - Ethics Opinion No. 3 "Case of the Loquacious Letterhead"
1959-1963
Box 1 Folder 13
Cornell Conference April 12-13, 1955
1955
Box 1 Folder 14
National Labor Relations Board - Statement by Herzog before Senate Committee, 4-28-53
1953
Box 1 Folder 15
National Mediation Board
1949-1955
Box 1 Folder 16
Misc.
1969-1987
Box 1 Folder 17
Metal Trades Dept. AFL-CIO (Impartial Referees Panel) RTS on list.
1968-1975
Box 1 Folder 18
Arbitration Board #282 (RR) Award of Arbitration March 4, 1964
1964
Box 1 Folder 19
Emergency Board #176
1969-1970
Box 1 Folder 20
ILR School - Cornell
1962-1970
Box 1 Folder 21
Arbitration Bd. No. 282 Speech Before Committee on Commerce, U.S. Senate, August 31, 1965
1965
Box 1 Folder 22
Arbitration Bd. No. 282 Speech before Committee on Commerce U.S. Senate
1965
Box 1 Folder 23
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
1961
Box 1 Folder 24
Speech: November 26, 1962 How Effective are Third Parties
1962
Box 1 Folder 25
Speech - February 4, 1960 "Arbitration and the Functions of Management" - Cornell
1960
Box 1 Folder 26
Speech - October 23, 1960 "Arbitration of Incentive Grievances" N.Y. State School of Industrial and Labor Relations - Ithaca, N.Y.
1960
Box 1 Folder 27
Speech - October 23, 1959 "Arbitration of Incentive Grievances" N.Y. State School of Industrial and Labor Relations - Ithaca N.Y.
1959
Box 1 Folder 28
Speech - August 2, 1958 "The Emerging 'Industrial Jurisprudence'" - University of Michigan Law School
1958
Box 1 Folder 29
Speeches - University of Penna. Wharton School of Finance - 4-21-1964 - Labor Relations Council
1964
Box 2
NAA Files (includes Committee files, etc.).
Box 2 Folder 1
N.A.A. - Special Committee on Continuing Cooperation with the Appointing Agencies - 1958-1960
1958-1960
Box 2 Folder 2
N.A.A. - Speeches (of Members of N.A.A.)
1960
Box 2 Folder 3
N.A.A.: Self-Employed Individuals Retirement Tax Act of '62
1962
Box 2 Folder 4
N.A.A. : Retirement Plan
1967
Box 2 Folder 5
N.A.A. - Officers, Governors, and Committee Chairmen, List of From 1947
1947
Box 2 Folder 6
N.A.A. Past President's Committee Princeton Inn, December 6-7, 1957
1957
Box 2 Folder 7
N.A.A. - Committee on Prof. Responsibility and Grievances
1981
Box 2 Folder 8
N.A.A. Committees - Program
1965
Box 2 Folder 9
N.A.A. Arbitrators - Aaron Horvitz
1980
Box 2 Folder 10
N.A.A. Arbitrators - Peter Seitz
1960-1963
Box 2 Folder 11
N.A.A. Arbitrators - Gabe Alexander
1955-1959
Box 2 Folder 12
N.A.A. Arbitrators Charles O. Gregory
1958-1962
Box 2 Folder 13
N.A.A. Arbitrators - W. Willard Wirtz
1959
Box 2 Folder 14
Arbitrator Industry Comments on Various Drafts of the Code
1974
Box 2 Folder 15
N.A.A.
1950-1969
Box 2 Folder 16
N.A.A. Meetings Annual - April-May, 1953 (Detroit)
1953
Box 2 Folder 17
N.A.A. Meetings - Annual - Chicago, Illinois
1951
Box 2 Folder 18
N.A.A. Meetings
1952
Box 2 Folder 19
N.A.A. Meeting - Annual - Washington, D.C.
1950
Box 2 Folder 20
N.A.A. Meetings - Annual - Washington, D.C.
1954
Box 2 Folder 21
N.A.A. Annual Meetings - Guest Lists
1986
Box 2 Folder 22
NAA - Professional Responsibility
1987
Box 2 Folder 23
N.A.A. Etc.
1984-1986
Box 2 Folder 24
N.A.A.
1986-1987
Box 2 Folder 25
N.A.A. Special Committee on Professionalism
1987
Box 2 Folder 26
Drafts, Worksheets, Sunkin Memos, RTS Notes
1986-1987
Box 2 Folder 27
N.A.A. - Jan. 31, 1964- New York Annual Mtg: RTS Speech: Speech Work Assignments and Industrial Change: The Rights of Management, Unions
1964
Box 3
NAA Files (includes Committee files, etc.).
Box 3 Folder 1
Ethics Committee - Working Drafts and Related Papers
1973
Box 3 Folder 2
Speech: National Academy of Arbitrators, April 8, 1970
1970
Box 3 Folder 3
N.A.A. Annual Meeting - April, 1972 RTS Speech Material
1972
Box 3 Folder 4
N.A.A. - Re-examination Committee
1974
Box 3 Folder 5
N.A.A. Meeting - Regional
1977-1991
Box 3 Folder 6
N.A.A. Committees - Research and Education
1950
Box 3 Folder 7
N.A.A. - Special Survey Committee - Committees RTS
1963
Box 3 Folder 8
N.A.A. - Membership Classification Committee - R.T.S. - Chairman
1962
Box 3 Folder 9
N.A.A. - Liaison Committee R.T.S.
1962
Box 3 Folder 10
N.A.A. - Guest Policy - Special Committee
1970
Box 3 Folder 11
N.A.A. Committees - Disputes Settlement in Public Employment, Special Committee
1969
Box 3 Folder 12
N.A.A. - Committee on Training of New Arbitrators
1974
Box 3 Folder 13
N.A.A. Committees - Structural (Special Committee - 1960)
1960
Box 3 Folder 14
Seward File Research and Education Committee
1949-1950
Box 3 Folder 15
Seward File Ethics Committee
1950
Box 3 Folder 16
N.A.A. - Ethics, Code of (1967)
1967
Box 3 Folder 17
N.A.A. Committees - Ethics
1959-1972
Box 3 Folder 18
Ethics Committee Meeting - Bar Harbor , Maine, 8/8-12/1974
1974
Box 3 Folder 19
N.A.A. - Special Committee on Continuing Cooperation with Appointing Agencies - Meeting of Central Group- Oct. 16, 1959 Washington, D.C.
1959
Box 3 Folder 20
Legislation Committee
1948-1950
Box 3 Folder 21
Seward File Nominating Committee
1946-1949
Box 3 Folder 22
Ethics Committee - General Correspondence and Memorandums
1982
Box 3 Folder 23
N.A.A. Committees - Law and Legislation
1962-1963
Box 4
Steel Arbitration; Conferences; Speeches; Misc. .
Box 4 Folder 1
Conference on Adjustment to Automation Univ. of Penna. - May 21, 1964
1964
Box 4 Folder 2
Univ. of Virginia School of Law Seminar - May 11, 1964
1964
Box 4 Folder 3
President's Conference on Industrial Safety - Proceedings of Annual Meeting
1948
Box 4 Folder 4
Ralph T. Seward - Speeches
1938-1951
Box 4 Folder 5
Institute of Continuing Legal Education, U. of Mich. Ann Arbor Labor-Arbitration Conf. 7-12
1965
Box 4 Folder 6
Speeches: American Iron and Steel Institute- New York City January 6, 1965
1965
Box 4 Folder 7
Ad Hoc Arbitrators - Peter Seitz
1968-1974
Box 4 Folder 8
Simkin, William, N.A.A. Arbitrator
1978
Box 4 Folder 9
Bethlehem and U.S.A. Arbitration Procedure (Incentive Grievances)
1961
Box 4 Folder 10
Seminar - Lackawanna Staff Reps. July 15, 1976: R.T.S. - Conducting
1976
Box 4 Folder 11
Bethlehem Steel Corporation - vs. U.S.A., : Discrimination Case Finding of Fact and Conclusions of Law. U.S. District Court
1970
Box 4 Folder 12
United Steelworkers of America - Grievance Procedure Questioned
1970
Box 4 Folder 13
Bethlehem- U.S.A. - Steel Strike 1959 - Injunction signed by Judge H.P. Sora October 21, 1959
1959
Box 4 Folder 14
Arbitration of 1974 Steel Contract - RTS
1974
Box 4 Folder 15
Bethlehem Steel Co. - Incentive Material Development and Application of Present Bethlehem Incentive Policy
1960
Box 4 Folder 16
Bethlehem and U.S.A. - Agreement -January 4, 1960
1960
Box 4 Folder 17
Steel Arbitration - General Contract Negotiations - 1974
1974
Box 5
Arbitration Case Files.
Box 5 Folder 1
Report of the Presidential Board
1962
Box 5 Folder 2
The Journal Co. + The Milwaukee Sentinel Division of the Hearst Corporation
1962
Box 5 Folder 3
Washington Newspaper Guild -and- The Washington Post Co.
1962
Box 5 Folder 4
Bethlehem Steel Co. -and- Draftsman Guild
1960
Box 5 Folder 5
I.A.M. -and- United Air Lines Gr. 23812-SFO
Box 5 Folder 6
VEPCO -and- IBEW July 13, 1949
1949
Box 5 Folder 7
New York Telephone Co. + CWA
1979
Box 5 Folder 8
New England Telephone + IBEW
1974
Box 5 Folder 9
International Harvester Company -and- International Union, Auto., Aircraft, Agric.,
Box 5 Folder 10
Seward
1985-1988
Box 5 Folder 11
So. Bell + Comm. Workers of America
1976
Box 5 Folder 12
United States Postal Service -and- Amer. Postal Workers Union
1972
Box 5 Folder 13
Western Airlines + International Brotherhood of Teamsters,
1971
Box 5 Folder 14
GP of MD -and- Communication Workers of America
Box 5 Folder 15
So. Central Bell Tele. Co. + Communications Workers of Amer.
Box 5 Folder 16
American Airlines -and- Airline Stewards + Stewardesses Assoc.
1971
Box 5 Folder 17
National Airlines Inc. -and- Airline Dispatchers Association
1970
Box 5 Folder 18
IAM + Aerospace Workers -and- United Assoc. of Journeymen + Apprentices
1970
Box 5 Folder 19
Milk Industry + Mgmt. Trustees August 12, 1966
1966
Box 5 Folder 20
American Airlines -and- Airline Stewardesses Assoc. 68-235+6
1968
Box 5 Folder 21
International Harvester Co. -and- IAM Jan. 13, 1963
1963
Box 5 Folder 22
Titanium Metals Corp. of Amer. + United Steelworkers
Box 5 Folder 23
Wendell Jones vs. St. Louis Cardinals
1973
Box 5 Folder 24
United States Postal Service Assoc. of Letter Carriers
Box 5 Folder 25
Hotel Industry Dispute 1976 (Bd. Of Inquiry)
1976
Box 5 Folder 26
IAM + IAW -and- IBEW April 2, 1970
1970
Box 5 Folder 27
L+P Telephone -and- Communications
Box 5 Folder 28
Briggs + Co. -and- Amalgamated Meat Cutters + Butcher Workmen
1964
Box 5 Folder 29
Kansas City Star Company + Kansas City Web Printing Pressman's
1965-1966
Box 5 Folder 30
Gould Inc. 9-15-76 "No Strike" Clause
1976
Box 5 Folder 31
Memphis Publishing Co + (Wages + Hosp. Fund)
1976
Box 5 Folder 32
Memphis Publishing Co. + Memphis Newspaper Printing
1975
Box 5 Folder 33
Coordinating Committee Steel Co's. + United Steelworkers of America
1977-1978
Box 5 Folder 34
International Union of Gas Workers + Washington Gas Light Co.
1976
Box 5 Folder 35
Bermuda - 2nd Hearing
1977
Box 5 Folder 36
Washington Gas Light Co. + OFC + Professional Employees
1977
Box 5 Folder 37
Titanium Metals Corp. + United Steelworkers of America
Box 5 Folder 38
Titanium Metals Corp. + United Steelworkers of America
1976
Box 5 Folder 39
International Printing + Graphic Union + The Wash Publishers Assoc.
1974
Box 5 Folder 40
So. Central Bell Telephone Co. -and- CWA
1974
Box 5 Folder 41
New York Telephone Co. + CBA
1973
Box 5 Folder 42
Western Electric Co. + IBEW
1979
Box 5 Folder 43
So. Central Bell Telephone + CWA Gr. 75-96-307
Box 5 Folder 44
IBEW -and- New England Telephone Co.
1975-1976
Box 5 Folder 45
Seward
1986-1987
Box 5 Folder 46
New Jersey Bell and IBEW L.827 June 9 and 10, 1987 - Discharge: Albright
1987
Box 5 Folder 47
So. Central Bell Telephone Co. -and- CWA
Box 5 Folder 48
So. Bell Telephone + Telegraph Co. + CWA
1978
Box 5 Folder 49
Sunshine Products Industries + International United Employees
1978
Box 5 Folder 50
Bermuda Case March 13, 1988
1988
Box 5 Folder 51
Correspondence
1985
Box 6
International Harvester Co. Decisions.
Box 6 Folder 1
Permanent Arbitrator
1948
Scope and Contents
Bound
Box 6 Folder 2
International Harvester Company vs. United Farm Equipment Workers of America, Local No. 104
1944-1945
Box 6 Folder 3
International Harvester Company
1949
Box 6 Folder 4
International Harvester Company - Melrose Park Works
1947-1948
Scope and Contents
Bound
Box 7
International Harvester Co. Decisions.
Box 7 Folder 1
International Harvester Company - United Farm Equipment and Metal Workers Council-UE, Local 107
1950
Scope and Contents
Bound
Box 7 Folder 2
International Harvester Company McCormick Works -
1950
Scope and Contents
Bound
Box 7 Folder 3
International Harvester Company Canton Works
1949
Scope and Contents
Bound
Box 7 Folder 4
International Harvester Company East Moline Works
1947-1949
Scope and Contents
Bound
Box 8
International Harvester (cont); Presidents National Labor-Management Conference, 1945 (6 vols. ) ; Kaiser Co. Industrial Relations Conference F'roceedings, 1956.
Box 8 Folder 1
The President's National Labor-Management Conference - Volume 1
1945
Box 8 Folder 2
The President's National Labor-Management Conference Volume 2 Plenary Sessions
1945
Scope and Contents
Bound
Box 8 Folder 3
The President's National Labor-Management Conference Volume 3 Reports of working Committees
1945
Scope and Contents
Bound
Box 8 Folder 4
The President's National Labor-Management Conference Volume 4 Public Hearings Committee Reports
1945
Scope and Contents
Bound
Box 8 Folder 5
The President's National Labor-Management Conference Volume 5 - Press Conference
1945
Scope and Contents
Bound
Box 8 Folder 6
The President's National Labor-Management Conference Volume 4 - Miscellaneous Documents
1945
Box 8 Folder 7
Proceedings of the Kaiser Companies Industrial
1956
Scope and Contents
Bound
Box 8 Folder 8
United Steelworkers of America
1948
Scope and Contents
Bound
Box 9
Ad Hoc Decisions (bd. vols.) Alpha order by company.
Box 9 Folder 1
Ad Hoc Decisions "B" Volume
1957-1962
Scope and Contents
Bound
Box 9 Folder 2
"L" to "R" Volume 3
1957-1958
Scope and Contents
Bound
Box 9 Folder 3
Ad Hoc Decision "S" to "Z" Volume 4Selas Corporation of America
1958-1959
Box 9 Folder 4
Ad Hoc Decision "A" Volume 1
1957
Scope and Contents
Bound
Box 9 Folder 5
Alco Products, Inc. -and- United Steelworkers of America
1958
Scope and Contents
Bound
Box 10
International Assn. of Machinists Dia. Lodge 142; RR Arb. Bd. 282; Milk Industry Decisions; Steel Industry.
Box 10 Folder 1
Report of the Joint Steel Industry-Union Contracting Out Review Commission
1977-1979
Scope and Contents
Bound
Box 10 Folder 2
Ralph T. Seward
1969
Scope and Contents
Bound
Box 10 Folder 3
International Association of Machinists - District Lodge 142 System Board of Adjustment Decisions TWA, Inc.
1955-1960
Scope and Contents
Bound
Box 10 Folder 4
International Association of Machinists District Lodge 142 Letters of Understanding TWA, Inc.
1961
Scope and Contents
Bound
Box 10 Folder 5
Decisions Handed Down by Ralph T. Seward in the Office of the Milk Industry Impartial Chairman: Between October 24, 1942 and September 8, 1944
1942- 1944
Scope and Contents
Bound
Box 10 Folder 6
Bethlehem Steel Company -and- United Steelworkers of America CIO, Local 2601
1943
Scope and Contents
Bound
Box 10 Folder 7
Railroad Dispute Technology to Appointment of Arbitration Bd. 282
1956-1963
Scope and Contents
Bound
Box 11
Swift and Co. ; General Motors Umpire Decisions.
Box 11 Folder 1
General Motors Decisions Rolf Valtin Umpire Also- UAW News Notes
1973
Scope and Contents
Bound
Box 11 Folder 2
General Motors Corporation - U.A.W. - umpire Decisions C-1 thru E-115
1945-1952
Box 11 Folder 3
Swift and Company - Seward
1945-1952
Box 11 Folder 4
General Motors Corporation -and- U.E.W. 8/25/50
1950
Scope and Contents
Bound
Box 11 Folder 5
General Motors Corporation -and- U.A.W.
1956-1959
Scope and Contents
Bound
Box 11 Folder 6
General Motors Corporation -and- U.A.W. Umpire Decisions 8/24/48 - 1963
1948-1963
Scope and Contents
Bound
Box 12
General Motors (cont).
Box 12 Folder 1
General Motors Corporation -and- U.A.W.
1950
Scope and Contents
Bound
Box 12 Folder 2
International Harvester Company - United Farm Equipment and Metal Workers of America
1948-1949
Scope and Contents
Bound
Box 12 Folder 3
Awards of Herbert C. Blumer
1946
Scope and Contents
Bound
Box 12 Folder 3
Awards of Herbert C. Blumer
1946
Scope and Contents
Bound
Box 12 Folder 3
Awards of Herbert C. Blumer
1946
Scope and Contents
Bound