U.S. Wage Stabilization Board Documents
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Scope and Contents
Materials of the U.S. Wage Stabilization Board include memoranda and press releases concerning wage policy, union security, procedures for handling cases, and national defense.
Also, panel reports and recommendations, answers, statements and briefs pertaining to the labor dispute settlement case of the United Steelworkers of America vs. various steel and iron ore companies (1952) on issues of shift differential, vacation, holiday, ability to pay, profits, geographic wage differentials, management rights, working conditions, contracting out, seniority, arbitration procedure, wage adjustment, productivity, union security, and wage differential.
Dates
- 1921-1962
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Conditions Governing Access
Access to the collections in the Kheel Center is restricted. Please contact a reference archivist for access to these materials.
Conditions Governing Use
This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and Procedures for Document Use.
Biographical / Historical
The United States Wage Stabilization Board was created as an agency of the Economic Stabilization Agency by executive order under the authority of the Defense Production Act of 1950. Its function was to control wages during the Korean War. An executive order, 1951, reestablished the Board with power to assist the president in settling industrial disputes. In July, 1952, the Board was reconstituted under legislative authority and stripped of its functions in the area of labor disputes. It was terminated April 30, 1953.
Extent
1 cubic feet
Abstract
Materials of the U.S. Wage Stabilization Board include memoranda and press releases concerning wage policy, union security, procedures for handling cases, and national defense.
Quantity:
1 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Case files, records (documents) .
General
- Contact Information:
- Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives Martin P. Catherwood Library 227 Ives Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3183 kheel_center@cornell.edu http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/kheel-center
- Compiled by:
- Kheel Staff, April 18, 2014
- EAD encoding:
- Kheel Staff, March 13, 2019
- Arbitration, Industrial -- Steel industry -- United States
- Contracting out -- Arbitration, Industrial -- United States
- Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Economic aspects -- United States
- Labor disputes -- Steel industry -- United States
- Labor productivity -- Arbitration, Industrial -- United States
- Management rights -- Arbitration, Industrial -- United States
- Seniority, Employee -- Law and legislation -- United States
- Steel industry and trade -- Military aspects -- United States
- Union security -- Law and legislation -- United States
- Wage-price policy -- United States
- Wages -- Arbitration, Industrial -- United States
- Wages -- Steel industry -- United States
- Wages -- United States -- State supervision
- Working conditions -- Arbitration, Industrial -- United States
- Title
- U.S. Wage Stabilization Board Documents
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Kheel Staff
- Date
- March 13, 2019
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Revision Statements
- 02/23/2024: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)
Repository Details
Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository
227 Ives Hall
Ithaca NY 14853