Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen Records
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Abstract
These records represent the small surviving fraction of the union's total record production, the largest part of which was periodically disposed of throughout the history of the union.
Dates
- 1910-1986
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
The Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen (ORC & B) 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 by T.J. "Tommie" Wright in 1868 in Amboy, Ill. as the Conductors Union. The name was changed to Order of Railway Conductors of America (ORC) 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. 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.
The ORC & B International Headquarters, Grand Division, was located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa with subordinate divisions in the United States, Canada, and the Panama Canal Zone. The principal officers included the president, senior vice-president, general secretary-treasurer, executive vice-president, vice-president/Washington legislative representative, vice-president/National Railroad Adjustment Board, four regional vice-presidents, Board of Trustees (3 members), and the ORC & B Board of Directors (comprised of the above 13 officers.) General Adjustment Committees on each property (Class 1 railroads) were responsible for execution of the contract, with each chairman, as principal officer, exercising a high degree of autonomy. Legislative matters on the state level were the responsibility of the State Legislative Committee and its chairman.
Extent
22.44 cubic feet
Quantity:
22.4 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Memorabilia, photographs.
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, July 21, 2014
- EAD encoding:
- Kheel Staff, March 07, 2019
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- Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway Company
- Collective labor agreements. Railroads. United States.
- Grievance procedures. Railroads. United States.
- Hours of labor. Railroads. United States.
- Insurance, Accident. Railroads. United States.
- Labor disputes. Railroads. United States.
- Labor laws and legislation-United States.
- Labor productivity. Railroads. United States.
- Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
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- New York Central Railroad Company
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- Railroad conductors-United States.
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- Railroads. Industrial relations. United States.
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- Railroads. United States. Full crew rules.
- Railroads. United States. Safety appliances.
- Railroads. United States. State supervision.
- Railroads. United States. Wage tables.
- Retirement. Railroads. United States.
- Strikes and lockouts. Railroads. United States.
- Trade-union insurance. United States.
- Trade-union merger. United States.
- Trade-union rituals.
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- Trade-unions. Railroads. United States.
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- Work rules. Railroads. United States.
- Title
- Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen Records
- 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
227 Ives Hall
Ithaca NY 14853