Individual Carrier Agreement and Strike Files (New York Central-New Orleans and Northeastern)

One-hundred and thirty-one linear feet of documents comprising the greatest bulk of S.U.N.A. records have been deposited with the Labor Management Docu-mentation Center of the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations as part of the U.T.U.-Cornell Joint Railway Labor History Project.

Included in this collection are constitutions; by-laws, convention and Board of Director Minutes; officer's records; financial documents; strike, arbitration, wage and vacation files and a host of ancillary documents and photographs as well as oral history transcripts in which S.U.N.A. leaders discuss the merger with the U.T.U. All these items are described in the listing below. The collection, in addition, contains memorabilia including convention badges, union buttons, broadsides, initiation relics and a host of other fascinating artifacts which bring to life the ritual which was so much a part of early union life. These artifacts will be described in a separate listing.

The collection has been divided into several record series, the order of which is outlined in the Table of Contents. At the beginning of each record series,



there is a scope note which explains the content and arrangement of that series and which may offer further information about related data. Series are occasionally further divided into a number of elite-series which are seldom more than topical headings. Finally, there is an alphabetic name and subject index to the entire listing following page 296.