John Collins Collection of Railway Labor Records
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Scope and Contents
Consists of a manuscript notebook containing a poll of union members and union officials employed on the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad. The poll concerned the merger which created the United Transportation Union.
Questions were raised concerning the necessity of the merger and its effects, especially at the local level. Also included are notes of interviews with brakemen, engineers, firemen, trainmen, conductors and carmen and notes on the organizing efforts of the new union. This collection also contains routine railroad forms and documents.
Dates
- 1970-1971
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Conditions Governing Access
Access to the collections in the Kheel Center is restricted. Please contact a reference archivist for access to these materials.
Conditions Governing Use
This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and Procedures for Document Use.
Biographical / Historical
John Collins is a lawyer and government employee. At the time he accumulated these documents he was a fireman employed on the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad out of Buffalo, N.Y. and a law student. These materials were gathered for a research paper for a University of of Buffalo seminar.
Extent
0.5 cubic feet
Abstract
Consists of a manuscript notebook containing a poll of union members and union officials employed on the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad. The poll concerned the merger which created the United Transportation Union. Also included are miscellaneous materials from railroad companies.
Quantity:
0.5 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Posters, questionnaires .
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
- Collins, John Collection of Railway Labor 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