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U.S. Emergency Board No. 116 Reports and Exhibits

 Collection
Identifier: 5044

Scope and Contents

Consists of the Board's report to the president and employee and carrier exhibits.



Employee exhibits deal with position classification, comparative wage analysis, productivity, hours of work, paid holidays and work hazards. Carrier exhibits relate to pattern settlements of railway labor disputes, comparative wage and earning data, position descriptions, work measurements, hours of work, working conditions, crew consist, and the economic conditions of the railroad industry, among others.

Dates

  • 1957

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

In 1956 and 1957, U.S. Emergency Board No. 116 heard a dispute beetween carriers represented by the Eastern, Western, and Southeastern Carriers' Conference Committees and employees represented by the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Parties to the dispute, which was over wages and paid holidays, included 175 class 1 railroads and 160,000 operating railroad workers.



The Emergency Board recommended an increase of 26 1/2 cents per hour to be given in three steps over a three year agreement. It also proposed seven paid holidays for regular service yardmen but turned down a similar holiday allowance for operating craft workers.

Extent

1 cubic feet

Abstract

Consists of the Board's report to the president and employee and carrier exhibits. Transcripts of proceedings and exhibits of the Emergency Board No. 116, 1956. Wage and benefiy case. Akron and Barbarton Belt Railroad Company and other carriers represented by the Eastern, Western and Southestern Carriers Conference Committees and the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, 1946-1957.

Quantity:

1 linear ft.

Forms of Material:

Reports (documents), exhibits .

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, January 18, 2015
EAD encoding:
Kheel Staff, March 04, 2019
Title
U.S. Emergency Board No. 116 Reports and Exhibits
Status
Completed
Author
Compiled by Kheel Staff
Date
March 04, 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

Contact:
227 Ives Hall
Ithaca NY 14853