AFL-CIO Railway Employees' Department Records on Microfilm
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Scope and Contents
A negative copy is available upon request.
Dates
- 1916-1968
Creator
- American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) (creator, Organization)
- AFL-CIO. Railway Employees' Department (RED) (creator, Organization)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Conditions Governing Access
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Conditions Governing Use
This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and Procedures for Document Use.
Biographical / Historical
Records of the Railway Employes' Department of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (RED). The RED was formed in 1908 to facilitate and coordinate the organizing activities and bargaining strategies of the seven national railroad shop craft unions.
The unions affiliated with RED included: the Brotherhood of Carmen of America; the International Association of Machinists; International Brotherhood of Blacksmiths, Drop Forgers, and Helpers; the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers; the Iron Shipbuilders and Helpers of America; the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers; the International Brotherhood of Firemen and Oilers; and the Sheet Metal Workers International Association. Materials relating to the Machinists and Carmen predominate. The RED bargained with the railroad carriers for these skilled trade employees on a wide range of activities affecting almost every aspect of their social and economic status as employees.
Extent
12.33 cubic feet
Abstract
Amendments, Railroad records, Board of Mediation records, Mediation settlement records, meeting minutes, correspondence and office circulars
Arrangement
Series 13: Transportation Act, 1921-1928 Series 15: Railway Labor Act, 1926-1964 Series 19: Cooperation, 1919-1933 Series 20: Federated Shop Craft Strike, 1922-1944 Series 21: Wage Negotiations, 1921-1922 Series 22: 1922 Strike Files, 1922-1925 Series 25: Master File of Official Circulars, 1916-1961
Quantity:
111 microfilm reels
Forms of Material:
Microfilms, records (documents).
General
- Contact Information:
- Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives 227 Ives Hall Tower Road Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3183 kheelref@cornell.edu https://catherwood.library.cornell.edu/kheel/
- Compiled by:
- Kheel Staff, February 05, 2013
- EAD encoding:
- Kheel Staff, March 13, 2019
- AFL-CIO
- AFL-CIO. Railway Employes' Department
- Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company
- Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
- Boston and Maine Railroad
- Brotherhood Railway Carmen of America
- Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company
- Chicago and North Western Railway Company
- Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railway Company
- Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company
- International Association of Machinists
- International Brotherhood of Blacksmiths, Drop Forgers, and Helpers
- International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders, Blacksmiths, Forgers, and Helpers
- International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
- International Brotherhood of Firemen and Oilers
- Long Island Rail Road.
- Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company
- Michigan Central Railroad Company
- Missouri, Kansas, and Texas Railway Company
- National Railroad Shopmen's Strike, U.S., 1922
- New York Central Railroad Company
- New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad Company
- Norfolk and Western Railway Company
- Northern Pacific Railroad Company
- Pennsylvania Railroad.
- Railroads -- Employees -- Labor unions -- United States
- Railroads -- Employees -- Labor unions -- United States -- Political activity
- Sheet Metal Workers' International Association
- Southern Pacific Railroad Company
- Union Pacific Railroad Company
- United States. Transportation Act, 1920
- Title
- AFL-CIO Railway Employees' Department Records on Microfilm
- 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