New York State Board of Mediation and Arbitration Smith, Gray and Company (Brooklyn, NY) Records
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Scope and Contents
This is a transcript of a hearing before the N.Y.S. Board of Mediation and Arbitration composed of Henry C. Johnson, chairman, W. H.H. Webster and William Purcell with Thomas A. Braniff as secretary*. Under the provisions of Chapter 415 of the Laws of 1897 the Board was empowered to investigate and make public the facts in a labor dispute. The Board began its investigation on February 27, 1899 as a result of an anonymous letter which it received. The company had discharged two foremen, one with twenty, the other with fifteen years service and hired a new man. Mr. McLaughlin immediately introduced price cuts and began treating the man in a very abusive manner with the results that the men walked out. Several other unions in New York boycotted the products of the company when it replaced the strikers with non-union men.
Dates
- 1899
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
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Biographical / Historical
The board in this case was composed of Henry C. Johnson, chairman, W. H.H. Webster and William Purcell with Thomas A. Braniff as secretary. Under the provisions of Chapter 415 of the Laws of 1897 the Board was empowered to investigate and make public the facts in a labor dispute.
Extent
0.33 cubic feet
Abstract
Transcript of hearing before the New York State Board of Mediation and Arbitration concerning Smith, Gray & Co., Brooklyn, New York and the employees of Smith, Gray & Co. represented by the Amalgamated Association of Clothing Cutters and Trimmers and Garment Workers of America.
Quantity:
0.3 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Transcripts.
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, November 07, 2013
- EAD encoding:
- Randall Miles, October 28, 2016
- Title
- New York State Board of Mediation and Arbitration Smith, Gray and Company (Brooklyn, NY) Records
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Kheel Staff
- Date
- October 28, 2016
- 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