Order of Railway Conductors Division 642 Records
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Scope and Contents
Inclusive date range: 1948-1952
Bulk dates: 1948-1952
This collection consists of a selection of records produced by ORC Local 642. The records are primarily concerned with dues, both owed and paid, and assessments of the Local and its members by the Grand Division in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Also present in this collection is correspondence between the Grand Division and Local 642, ORC circulars from their 40th Anniversary (1948), and remittance forms. Of note are the quarterly rosters listing the names of all members of Local 642 and, in the case of the roster produced by the Grand Division, local addresses of the union members. The rosters produced by the local division include the names of its members and they dues they had or had not paid.
Dates
- 1948-1952
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
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This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and Procedures for Document Use.
Biographical / Historical
The Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen [ORC] was founded in 1868 as an order of railroad conductors and later expanded to include brakemen.
The Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen was founded in 1868 in Amboy, Illinois as the Conductors Union. Initially, it was a fraternal benefit society, but by 1890 it had adopted a policy of engaging in labor negotiations on behalf of its members as well as permitting its members to strike. The name was changed to Order of Railway Conductors of America in 1878. In 1942, the Order of Sleeping Car Conductors merged with ORC. The union's name was changed in 1954 to the Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen to reflect its changing membership. The ORC International Headquarters, Grand Division, was located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa with subordinate divisions in the United States, Canada, and the Panama Canal Zone. In 1969, the Order merged with the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, and Switchmen's Union of North America to form the United Transportation Union.
Local Division 642 was one of the subordinate divisions of the ORC. It was located in West Springfield, Massachusetts; its members were employees of the Boston and Albany Railroad. These employees were split into two divisions, the Boston Division and the Albany Division, each division working the 100-mile stretch from Springfield to either terminal point.
Extent
0.5 cubic feet
Abstract
This collection is made up of dues and assessments records.
Quantity:
0.5 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
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:
- E. Parker, April 13, 2017
- EAD encoding:
- E. Parker, April 13, 2017
- Title
- Order of Railway Conductors Division 642 Records
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by E. Parker
- Date
- April 13, 2017
- 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