Reel 18

Scope and Contents February 12-August 7, 1920. 250pp. Subjects: U.S. Railroad Labor Board; mediation of labor disputes; lists of crew shifts and percent of employees at work on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad; Bureau of Investigation reports on national railroad strike; U.S. Railroad Administration; United Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees and Railway Shop Laborers; U.S. Railroad Labor Board; use of injunctions in labor disputes; alleged IWW influence in strike; Lever Act prosecutions; Brotherhood of...

Scope and Contents June 24, 1920-August 2, 1925. 146pp. Subjects: Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen; U.S. Railroad Administration; U.S. Railroad Labor Board; mediation of labor disputes; ALF Railway Employes' Department; Interstate Commerce Commission; U.S. Chamber of Commerce; American Train Dispatchers Association; reports from confidential informants on union organization and radical activities; strikebreakers; violence and intimidation; Brotherhood Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen; private detectives....

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June 22-August 15, 1920. 31pp. Subjects: Reports from confidential informants on union organization and radical activities; private detectives; strikebreakers; violence and intimidation; Pennsylvania Labor Party; Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Begins at 0396.

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June 14, 1920-August 23, 1923. 160pp. Subjects: Regulation of coal prices; Federal Fuel Distributor; Lever Act Prosecutions; Interstate Commerce Commission; alleged profiteering in sales of coal; Federal Trade Commission; National Coal Association; alleged shortage of railroad coal cars. Begins at 0437.

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February 13, 1922. 14pp. Subjects: Report of the Director Federal of Railroads to the president of the United States covering the period of dates from the relinquishment of federal operations; U.S. Railroad Administration; financial mattes. Begins at 0587.

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February 21, 1921-January 26, 1923. 45pp. Subjects: Mob violence and intimidation against strikers; Citizens' Committee seizure of union records, investigation of arson against railroad property; and lynching of striker; U.S. Railroad Labor Boars; mediation of labor disputes; contract negotiations. Begins at 0601.

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March 21-26, 1921. 6pp. Subjects: Lever Act prosecutions; legal defense efforts. Begins at 0646.

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April 26, 1920-Marcch 4, 1924. 64pp. Subjects: Leve Act prosecutions; constitutional law. Begins at 0652.

Scope and Contents March 6, 1921-July 15, 1922. 163pp. Subjects: Bureau of Investigation reports; violence and intimidation; union boycott of businesses using railroad in dispute; strikebreakers; DOJ employment of former corporate counsel as special assistant for Sherman Act and arson prosecutions of union members; U.S. Railroad Labor Board; Interstate Commerce Commission; use of receivership as shield from labor expenses; DOJ subpoena of union records for use in prosecution; American Train Dispatchers...

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July 17, 1920-January 2, 1923. 149pp. Subjects: Lever Act prosecutions; Chicago Yardmen's Association; violence and intimidation; Association of Railway Executives; United Association of Railway Employees of North America; AFL Railway Employees' Department; Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen; DOJ efforts to break "outlaw" railroad strike; Bureau of Investigation reports on surveillance of union meetings and nationwide strike activities; strikebreakers. Begins at 0879.