Willard Eugene Hotchkiss Arbitration Awards and Papers
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Scope and Contents
Hotchkiss' writings include, "History of the Shipbuilding Labor Adjustment Board, 1917-1919" (1921); "Industrial Relations in the Men's Clothing Industry" (1922), discussing reasons for formation of a national federation; "Collective Agreements in the Men's Clothing Industry" (1922), a discussion of the role of agreements, representation and arbitration in the men's clothing industry; "Industrial Relations Management" (1923), concerning ideas on human relations and personnel management; "Unemployment Agreements Between Members of the Chicago Industrial Federation of Clothing Manufacturers and the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America" (1923); "Extra Incentive Wage Plans in the Men's Clothing Industry in Chicago" (1925); "The Human Factor in Industry" (1926-1927); and "Arbitration -- an Analysis" (1939).
Addresses by Hotchkiss deal with the beginnings of constitutional government in the men's clothing industry (1921), stabilizing employment in the men's clothing industry in Chicago (1924), employee representation (1924), labor relations (1940), and miscellaneous subjects.
The arbitration awards (1937-1945) chiefly include the awards with agreements, briefs, petitions, minutes of arbitration proceedings, and letters. The awards are chiefly for the Textile Workers' Union of America vs. the American Viscose Corporation (1937-1945) for cases involving discipline, seniority, suspension, wages, schedules, and other miscellaneous issues. Additionally, there are a number of awards and supporting materials for the United Steelworkers of America (1939-1944) vs. various companies and corporations for cases involving wage rates and discharge. There also are a number of awards for cases involving the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, United Automobile Workers, Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, Aluminum Workers of America, United Stone and Allied Products Workers of America, United Mine Workers of America, International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Newspaper Printing Pressmen, International Typographical Union, and Federation of Glass, Ceramic and Silica Sand Workers of America.
Dates
- 1917-1946
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
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Biographical / Historical
Dr. Willard Hotchkiss (Ph.D., economics, Cornell University, 1905; LLD., Northwestern University, 1927) was an educator and arbitrator. Professor Hotchkiss was a member of the faculties of Northwestern University (1905-1917, 1921-1925), the University of Minnesota (1917-1919), and the Carnegie Institute of Technology (1930-1944). He served as dean of the School of Commerce at Northwestern (1908-1917), dean of the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University (1925-1932), and director of the Division of Humanistic and Social Studies at Carnegie (1941-1944). Hotchkiss' business career included his work as executive director of the National Industrial Federation of Clothing Manufacturers (1920-1925), as president of the Armour Institute of Technology and lesser posts. Dr. Hotchkiss served the federal government as panel chairman of the War Labor Board (1943-1945) and as public member and chairman of the Enforcement Division of the National Wage Stabilization Board. Professor Hotchkiss was also an arbitrator and mediator, working largely in the textile and steel industries.
Extent
2 cubic feet
Abstract
The arbitration awards and papers of Willard Eugene Hotchkiss include speeches and writings, including some book reviews (1917-1940); also arbitration awards, chiefly for the Textile Workers' Union of America (1937-1945), and United Steelworkers of America (1939-1944).
Quantity:
2 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Decisions, manuscripts (documents), speeches (documents) .
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, October 31, 2012
- EAD encoding:
- Randall Miles, February 22, 2017
- Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
- Arbitration, Industrial -- Aluminum industry -- United States
- Arbitration, Industrial -- Automobile industry -- United States
- Arbitration, Industrial -- Boiler making industry -- United States
- Arbitration, Industrial -- Building trades -- United States
- Arbitration, Industrial -- Clothing industry -- United States
- Arbitration, Industrial -- Electric industries -- United States
- Arbitration, Industrial -- Glass manufacture -- United States
- Arbitration, Industrial -- Men's clothing industry -- United States
- Arbitration, Industrial -- Newspaper publishing -- United States
- Arbitration, Industrial -- Printing industry -- United States
- Arbitration, Industrial -- Shipbuilding industry -- United States
- Arbitration, Industrial -- Steel industry -- United States
- Arbitration, Industrial -- Stone industry -- United States
- Arbitration, Industrial -- Textile industry -- United States
- Arbitration, Industrial -- United States -- Cases
- Clothing workers
- Clothing workers -- Labor unions -- United States
- Employees, Dismissal of -- Arbitration, Industrial -- United States
- Employment stabilization -- United States -- Addresses, essays, lectures
- Hours of labor -- Arbitration, Industrial -- United States
- Industrial arbitrators
- Industrial relations -- United States -- Addresses, essays, lectures
- Iron and steel workers
- Labor discipline -- Arbitration, Industrial -- United States
- Personnel management -- United States
- Psychology, Industrial -- United States
- Seniority, Employee -- Law and legislation -- United States
- Textile Workers Union of America
- Textile workers
- Title
- Willard Eugene Hotchkiss Arbitration Awards and Papers
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Kheel Staff
- Date
- February 22, 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