Scope and Contents
Series I., arbitration/mediaion files, arranged alphabetically by industry and Include decisions, correspondence, agreements, and other related documents.
This series includes documentation relative to Mr. Abelson's arbitration and mediation cases. It is arranged alphabetically by industry then divided into four sections: l) decisions, 2) correspondence, 3) agreements, 4) miscellaneous and clippings. Exceptions to this arrangement are the Bakery and Fur Industry's files which begin with minutes being filed first. Another variation is the Cloak and Suit Industry which includes subject files at the end of its arrangement. These were subject headings assigned by Mr. Abelson. Types of documents included in this series are: correspondence, decisions, agreements, briefs, hearings, minutes, clippings, broadsides, meeting announcements, lists of demands, and penciled notes.
Series II, subject files, includes documents, filed alphabetically by subject, not directly related to his arbitration/mediation files.
This series contains material not directly-related to arbitration/mediation cases. This group is broken down alphabetic ally-by subject and includes correspondence, lectures, minutes, notes, course outlines, reports, schedules, memos, charts, releases, articles, clippings and National Recovery-Administration documentation.
Series III, publications, contains articles and publications. Most of the publications were distributed to other locations in the Center such as AUF, AOF, and Rare Pamphlet Collection. A list of these publications is included with the location explained.
Series IV, includes decisions of other Impartial Chairman arranged alphabetically by the Chairman's name.
This series includes decisions of various Impartial Chairmen in the needle trade industries that were filed throughout the Abelson collection. The decisions are filed alphabetically by the name of the Chairman.
Series V, Includes newspaper clippings, miscellaneous and Yiddish documents and broadsides.
A substantial amount of material was identified as Professor Jesse Carpenters' and was removed and placed under collection #5490. Professor Carpenter utilized this collection while writing his book entitled, "Competition and Collective Bargaining In the Needle Trades, 1910-1967."
A separate group of agreements was removed and placed In the Center's Agreement Collection.
Dates
- 1902-1965
Language of Materials
Collection material in English, Yiddish
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
Paul Abelson, the son of Joseph Mayer and Ruchama (Bromber) Abelson was born in Kovno, Lithuania, September 27, 1878. He immigrated to the United States with his parents in 1892. He received his A.B. from the College of the City of New York in 1899, his secondary diploma from the Teacher's College of Columbia University in 1900, and his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1906. In 1918, he received his L.L.B. from the New York Law School and was admitted to the New York Bar.
Mr. Abelson's career was most closely connected with the labor movement. In 1910, he entered the field of labor arbitration when he was appointed a member of the conciliation staff under the arbitration plan of the cloak and suit industry of New York City.
Throughout his career, he continued to serve as a labor arbitrator for many other industries including: the paper box industry, the hosiery industry, the fur, millinery, men's hat, Jewish baking, and jewelry trades. After the passage of the National Recovery Act in 1933, Abelson was appointed by President Roosevelt as government representative on seven apparel trade boards.
Abelson was a founder of the National Academy of Arbitrators and while alive was regarded as the Dean of that organization.
Abelson also served as a member of the National Panel of Arbitrators of the American Arbitration Association.
He contributed numerous articles on labor, education, and civics to various magazines. He was editor-in-chief of the English-Yiddish Encyclopedia Dictionary (1915); The Dictionary of Fur Names (1921); and the author of The Seven Liberal Arts (1906), a study in medieval education.
Paul Abelson was married in 1905, to Helen Cohen in New York City. They had three children (Miriam [Mrs. Robert Ness], Ruth [Mrs. Harold Ceder], and Louise) and eight grandchildren. On November 4, 1953, he died in New York City at the age of 75.
Biographical / Historical
UNION ABBREVIATIONS
AFFFHW .- American Federation of Full-Fashioned Hosiery Workers
BCWIU - Bakery and Confectionery Workers International Union of America
CHCMW - Cloth, Hat, Cap and Millinery Workers International Union
DTWU - Doll and Toy Workers Union
IJWU - International Jewelry Workers Union
ILGWU - International Ladies Garment Workers Union
ILHPNW - International Ladies Handbag, Pocketbook and Novelty Workers
PNWA - Playthings and Novelty Workers of America
PWU - Pocketbook Workers Union
UCHC - United Cloth Hat and Capmakers of North America
UHCMW - United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers International Union
Extent
52.5 cubic feet
Abstract
Include decisions, correspondence, clippings and other materials relating to arbitration and mediation in a range of industries.
Quantity:
52.5 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Papers (documents), clippings (information artifacts), decisions.
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, March 14, 2003
- EAD encoding:
- Randall Miles, February 21, 2017
- Apprentices -- Arbitration, Industrial -- United States
- Arbitration, Industrial -- Bakers and bakeries -- United States
- Arbitration, Industrial -- Children's clothing industry -- United States
- Arbitration, Industrial -- Clothing industry -- United States
- Arbitration, Industrial -- Fur trade -- United States
- Arbitration, Industrial -- Hat trade -- United States
- Arbitration, Industrial -- Hosiery industry -- United States
- Arbitration, Industrial -- Jewelry trade -- United States
- Arbitration, Industrial -- Knit goods industry -- United States
- Arbitration, Industrial -- Leather industry -- United States
- Arbitration, Industrial -- Luggage industry -- United States
- Arbitration, Industrial -- Men's clothing industry -- United States
- Arbitration, Industrial -- Moving picture industry -- United States
- Arbitration, Industrial -- New York (State) -- New York -- Cases
- Arbitration, Industrial -- Toy industry -- United States
- Arbitration, Industrial -- United States -- Cases
- Arbitration, Industrial -- Women's clothing industry -- United States
- Bargaining unit -- Arbitration, Industrial -- United States
- Children's clothing industry -- State supervision -- United States
- Cleaning and dyeing industry -- State supervision -- New York (State)
- Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufacturers' Protective Association (New York, N.Y.)
- Collective labor agreements -- Clothing industry -- United States
- Contracting out -- Arbitration, Industrial -- United States
- Employee rules -- United States
- Employees, Dismissal of -- Arbitration, Industrial -- United States
- Employees, Training of -- Arbitration, Industrial -- United States
- Fur trade -- United States -- State supervision
- Hat trade -- United States -- State supervision
- Hours of labor -- Arbitration, Industrial -- United States
- Industrial arbitrators
- Layoffs -- Arbitration, Industrial -- United States
- Lumber industry -- United States -- State supervision
- Men's clothing industry -- State supervision -- United States
- Piece work -- Arbitration, Industrial -- United States
- Position classification -- Arbitration, Industrial -- United States
- Strikes and lockouts -- Arbitration, Industrial -- United States
- Underwear industry -- United States -- State supervision
- Wages -- Arbitration, Industrial -- United States
- Wages -- Cleaning and dyeing industry -- New York (State) -- State supervision
- Wages -- Clothing industry -- United States
- Women's clothing industry -- United States -- State supervision
- Work assignments -- Arbitration, Industrial -- United States
- Working conditions -- Arbitration, Industrial -- United States
- Title
- Paul Abelson Papers
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Kheel Staff
- Date
- February 21, 2017
- 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