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Capital Airlines, Inc. and International Association of Machinists, District 144 Arbitration Proceedings

 Collection
Identifier: 5130

Scope and Contents

This was an arbitration proceeding on February 18, 1952 under the contract between the parties before Dr. William M. Leiserson, over a grievance which the parties felt could not be handled by the System Board. The issues were:

1. Did the company violate the contract by not maintaining a Lead Mechanic on duty on the day shift at Pittsburgh, November 11, 1951?

2. Should J. Stoup and P. Carnovale be paid for four hours at time and one-half as a result of not being called in to cover this shift?

Dates

  • 1952

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

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Conditions Governing Use

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Biographical / Historical

Capital Airlines was an airline serving the Eastern, Southern, Southeastern, and Midwestern United States. Capital's headquarters were located at Washington National Airport (now Reagan Airport) across the Potomac river from Washington, D.C. where crew training and aircraft overhauls were also accomplished. In the 1950s Capital was the fifth largest United States domestic carrier by passenger count (and sometimes by passenger-miles) after the Big Four air carriers (American, United, TWA, and Eastern). Capital merged with United Airlines in 1961.

Extent

0.5 cubic feet

Abstract

Transcript of arbitration proceeding on February 18, 1952 under the contract between the parties before Dr. William M. Leiserson, over a grievance which the parties felt could not be handled by the System Board.

Related Materials

Related Collections: 5328: Ralph T. Seward Papers 6455: International Association of Machinists Collections

Quantity:

0.5 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 11, 2013
EAD encoding:
Kheel Staff, March 07, 2019
Title
Capital Airlines, Inc. and International Association of Machinists, District 144 Arbitration Proceedings
Status
Completed
Author
Compiled by Kheel Staff
Date
March 07, 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