Jacob Seidenberg Additional Arbitration Case Files
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Scope and Contents
Chiefly files of cases in the railroad industry, brought before Boards on which Seidenberg served from 1960-1974. The major unions represented in these files are United Transportation Union; Brotherhood of Railway, Airline, and Steamship Clerks; Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen; Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen; Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen; and Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. The major railroads represented are Penn Central Transportation Company; Southern Pacific Company; Erie-Lackawanna Railroad Company; Long Island Railroad Company; Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company; Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company; Norfolk and Western Railway Company; and Southern Buffalo Railway Company. Also, Union Pacific Railway Company; Central Georgia Railroad Company; Illinois Central Gulf Railroad Company; Western Maryland Railway Company; St. Louis South Western Railway Lines; and Monongahela Railway Company.
The major issues involved include violation of work assignment rules, dismissal, seniority, discipline, time claims, mileage claims, and payment claims, holiday pay, runaround, wage rates, deadheading, overtime, suspension, compensation, reinstatement, and others. Additionally, there are numerous cases arbitrated by Seidenberg involving the following unions: National Union of Hospital and Health Care Employees; International Brotherhood of Teamsters; United Automobile, Aircraft and Agricultural Implement Workers of America; Office and Professional Employees International Union; American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME); Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America; United Brotherhood of Carpenters District Council; United Steelworkers of America; and International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers.
Dates
- 1983
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
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Biographical / Historical
Dr. Jacob Seidenberg (1914-1996) was a government official who specialized in labor arbitration and non-discrimination contracts, and wrote extensively on labor law and negotiations. He graduated from Temple University in 1937 and received a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1941. During the 1940s he was an attorney with the U.S. War Department, the National War Labor Board and the National Wage Stabilization Board. In 1948 he went to graduate school at Cornell University, from which he earned his Ph.D. in industrial and labor relations in 1951. In 1951 he joined the staff of the President's Committee on Government Contract Compliance. The Committee was abolished by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in August 1953 by Executive Order 10479 and was succeeded by the President's Committee on Government Contracts. Seidenberg was appointed Executive Director of the new committee and served until January 1960 when he resigned to become a full-time labor arbitrator. The Committee was responsible for enforcing non-discrimination clauses in government contracts, worked with private businesses to help them overcome job discrimination, and developed educational programs against ethnic and racial discrimination. The chairman was Vice President Richard Nixon, and the vice chairman was Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell. In later years Seidenberg served on a number of boards of inquiry involving labor disputes. From 1970 to 1975 he was chairman of the Federal Services Impasses Panel which settled deadlocks in federal labor negotiations.
Extent
17 cubic feet
Abstract
Chiefly files of cases in the railroad industry, brought before Boards on which Seidenberg served from 1960-1974. The major unions represented in these files are United Transportation Union; Brotherhood of Railway, Airline, and Steamship Clerks; Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen; Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen; Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen; and Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. The major railroads represented are Penn Central Transportation Company; Southern Pacific Company; Erie-Lackawanna Railroad Company; Long Island Railroad Company; Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company; Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company; Norfolk and Western Railway Company; and Southern Buffalo Railway Company. Also, Union Pacific Railway Company; Central Georgia Railroad Company; Illinois Central Gulf Railroad Company; Western Maryland Railway Company; St. Louis South Western Railway Lines; and Monongahela Railway Company.
Quantity:
17 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Records (documents), case files.
General
- Contact Information:
- Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives 227 Ives Hall Tower Road Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3183 kheelref@cornell.edu https://catherwood.library.cornell.edu/kheel/
- Compiled by:
- Kheel Staff, October 04, 2005
- EAD encoding:
- Randall Miles, February 21, 2017
- A & P
- ABF Freight System
- AFSCME
- AMF, Inc.
- Aberdeen Proving Ground (Md.)
- Acme Markets, Inc.
- Aerofin Corp
- Air Wisconsin
- Allephany Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co.
- Allied Aviation Fueling Co.
- Allied Fibers & Plastics
- Almo Electronics Group
- Altair Airlines, Inc.
- Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America
- Amana Refrigeration, Inc.
- Ambac Industries, Inc.
- Ambassador Motel
- American Bank Stationery Co.
- American Export, Inc.
- American Merchant Marine Institute
- American Postal Workers Hospital Plan
- American Totalistic Co.
- Arundel County Board of Education
- Asarco Inc.
- Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company
- Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company
- Auco, Aerostructure Division
- Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
- Bangor & Aroostook Railroad Co.
- Bell Telephone Company
- Bethesda Health Center
- Black & Decker Corporation (Towson, Md.)
- Blue Diamond
- Boston and Maine Railroad
- Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers (U.S.)
- Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen
- Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen
- Brotherhood of Railway, Airline, and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express, and Station Employes
- Calvert County Board of Education
- Central Transfer Co.
- Centrur Home
- Charles County Board of Education
- Chessie System, Inc.
- Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway Company
- Chicago, Northwestern Railway Co.
- Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Rail Road Co.
- Classic Chemical
- Cleaver-Brooks (Firm)
- Con Rail
- Conoco, Inc.
- Consolidated Freightways, Inc.
- Corning Glass Works
- Crowell Corporation
- Crown Zellerback Corporation
- Damon Corporation
- Delmarva Power Company
- Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company
- Detroit, Toledo, and Ironton Railroad
- District of Columbia
- District of Columbia. Police Dept
- Dorchester County Board of Education
- Drug Fair
- Dupont Company
- Eastern Airlines, Inc.
- Eaton Corporation
- Empire Steel Castings
- Erie-Lackawanna Railroad Company
- Evans Transportation
- Federal Yeast Company
- Federation of Professional Athletes
- Fisher & Porter Co.
- Florida East Coast Highway Dispatch Co.
- Food Fair
- Freda Corporation
- Frontier Airlines
- Georgetown University Hospital
- Georgia-Pacific Corporation
- Giant (Firm)
- Ginn and Company
- Golden Nugget Hotel & Resort
- Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada
- Grand Union Company
- Greenlawn Classics, Inc.
- Grey Concrete Pipe Company Inc.
- Hamilton Hotel (Mays Landing, N.J.)
- Harrah's Hotel & Casino
- Harrington Hotel
- Hemingway Transport, Inc.
- Henry Vogt Machine Company
- Hermitite
- Hess Oil Corporation
- Illinois Central Gulf Railroad
- International Air Line Pilots Association
- International Association of Fire Fighters
- International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
- International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen, and Helpers of America
- International Union, United Automobile, Aircraft, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America
- John Sexton & Co.
- Kansas City Terminal Railroad Co.
- Kash & Karry
- Kent County Board of Education
- Knoxville Iron Company
- Kraft, inc.
- Lank Wookwork, Inc.
- Lee Rubber & Tire Corporation
- Library of Congress
- Long Green Nursing Center
- Long Island Railroad Company
- Louderback Transportation Co.
- Maine Central Railroad Company
- Major League Baseball Players Association
- Marquette Cement Co.
- Maryland Classified Employees Association
- Mason-Dixon Lines, Inc.
- Mead Packaging, Inc.
- Meridan Nursing Center
- Metromedia, Inc.
- Metropolitan Atlantic Rapid Transit Authority
- Metropolitan Edison Company
- Mobil Corporation
- Monogahela Connecting Railroad Co.
- Montgomery County Board of Education
- Monumental Life Insurance Co.
- Mor Flo Industries, Inc.
- Morgan Millwork Co.
- National Car Rental Systems, Inc.
- National Gypsum Company
- National Rolling Mills
- New Castle County (Del.)
- New York Telephone Company
- News American
- Norfolk Naval Shipyard (U.S.)
- Norfolk Southern Railway Company
- Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation
- Owens Illinois, Forest Products Division
- PPG Industries
- Pan Am World Airways, Inc.
- Pennsylvania Power & Light Company
- Pennsylvania Railroad
- Pennsylvania Truck Lines, Inc.
- Pennsylvania. Liquor Control Board
- Pepsi-Cola Bottling Corp
- Philadelphia Gas Works
- Philadelphia Gear Corporation
- Prince George's County (Md.). Police Dept
- Prince William Hospital
- Printing Industry of Washington D.C
- Provident Hospital (Chicago, Ill.)
- Publicker Industries Inc.
- Purolator Armed Inc.
- RCA Corporation
- Reisch Trucking Co.
- Resorts International Casino Hotel
- Reynolds Metal Company
- Rollins Outdoor Ad
- Ropes Eastern Corp
- Roubin-Janerio, Inc.
- Rudy's Farm Company
- Ryder Truck Lines
- Safeway Stores, Inc.
- Safeway Trails
- Schuster Express
- Simkin, Industries
- Singer Company
- Smith Transfer Co.
- Southeastern Pennsylvania Transit Authority
- Southern Pacific Company
- Southern Railway (U.S.)
- St. Joe Container Corp
- St. Louis and Southeastern Railway Company
- St. Louis and Southwestern Railroad Company
- St. Mary County Board of Education
- Texas International Airlines
- U.S. Army Material Development & Readiness Command
- Union Boiler Co.
- Union Carbide Corporation
- Union Pacific Railroad Company
- United Federation of Teachers
- United Federation of Teachers. Local 2 (AFT)
- United States. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms
- United States. Commission on Civil Rights
- United States. Department of Commerce
- United States. Department of Defense.
- United States. Department of Health and Human Services
- United States. Department of Labor
- United States. Government Printing Office
- United States. Marine Corps.
- United States. National Labor Board
- United States. Naval Ordnance Station (Indian Head, Md.)
- United States. Navy. Air Rework Facility
- United States. Navy. Air Station Oceana
- United States. Navy. Exchange Service
- United States. Park Police
- United States. Patent and Trademark Office
- United States. Small Business Administration
- United States. Social Security Administration
- United States. Veteran Administration Medical Center
- United Workers, Inc.
- Vermont Northern Railroad Company
- Virginia-Pilot Ledger Star
- W.D. Byron & Sons, Inc.
- WDCA
- WJZ-TV
- Washington & Gas Light Co.
- Washington County Board of Education
- Washington Hospital Center
- Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority
- Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild
- Western Pacific Railroad Company
- Western Pennsylvania Water Company
- Westinghouse Electric Corporation
- Winner Distributing
- Title
- Jacob Seidenberg Additional Arbitration Case Files
- 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