Awards, Agreements, and Railway Labor Act, 1950-1969

Inclusive date range: 1950-1972

Bulk dates: 1968-1972



This collection consist of four published volumes of decision from the First Division, National Railroad Adjustment Board [NRAB] and papers from legal filings donated by Francis J. Reilly, a brakeman for the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway. The four volumes contain the decisions made by the NRAB from May 1967 to December 1968. The legal filings and supplementary materials contain the original petition for reinstatement filed by Mr. Reilly in front of the NRAB in 1955, the NRAB's dismissal of his petition (Award 17167), supplementary materials collected by Mr. Reilly concerning his case, his filing in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Illinois in 1968 asking for the court to overturn the NRAB's decision, and the subsequent appeals he filed after his petitions were dismissed by the courts. These records contain annotations from Mr. Reilly, explaining his reasoning in pursuing this case as well as offering his criticism when the decisions were not favorable. Also found in this collection are various newspaper clippings about the Supreme Court, the backlog of cases waiting for hearings, and reports from labor publications on the railroad industry.