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Box 10

 Container

Contains 45 Results:

Railroads - Legislation, 1917-1950

 File — Box: 10, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents "Labor Relations in the Railroad Industry in the United States," unsigned manuscript, 3/27/53, 12 pages; minutes of meeting with AFL legislative committee and Congressman re repeal of Esch-Cummings Law, February 27, 1924, 6 pages; "Extract from Minutes of Executive Council Meeting ... January 8-17, 1930"; "Preliminary Analysis and Statement Respecting S 3463 - the Donnell Bill Prohibiting Strikes and Providing For Compulsory Arbitration in the Railroad Industry," AFL statement, n.d., 4...
Dates: 1917-1950

Railroads - Unions - General

 File — Box: 10, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents "The Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen," unsigned typescript ("paid 10-7-53"), 5 pages; two page description by black employee of the Panama Canal / Panama Railroad Co. re efforts of "two white organizers" from the United Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way and Railway Shop Laborers to organize black workers; includes description of resistance by white labor unions, response of AFL, and successful result, unsigned, May 22, 1919; much correspondence between AFL President Gompers and officials of...
Dates: 1836-1981

Railroads - Unions, Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, 1924-1952

 File — Box: 10, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents

"The Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express and Station Employees," unsigned typescript ("paid, 4-5-52"), 9 pages; correspondence re reaffiliation/jurisdictional dispute between Teamsters and Railway and Steamship Clerks, May 1928; Notes

Dates: 1924-1952

Reconversion, 1944-1946

 File — Box: 10, Folder: 17
Scope and Contents Memos from AFL legislative representative re various bills July 1944; summary of bill for national reconversion, August 24, 1944, 6 pages; "Joint Letter from AFL, CIO and Railway Labor Executives Association," supporting Kilgore Bill, sent to all Senators, May 1, 1944, 2 pages; statements by AFL Vice-President Matthew Woll: ("Machinery For Reconversion," before Subcommittee of the U.S. Senate Military Affairs Committee, April 4, 1944, 16 pages; "Remobilizing For Peace," before U.S. Senate...
Dates: 1944-1946

Religion, 1902-1921

 File — Box: 10, Folder: 18
Scope and Contents

Letter from the American Federation of Catholic Societies, calling for closer, formal relations with AFL, January 12, 1915, 3 pages; notes

Dates: 1902-1921

Rent Control, 1949-1950

 File — Box: 10, Folder: 19
Scope and Contents

Letter "to all Central Labor Unions" with "Major Provisions in the 1949 Rent Control Law" attached, April 14, 1949; press release, statement by AFL President Green opposing increase in "fair net operating income" standard for landlords, May 4, 1949; "Statement by William Green, President, AFL, Before the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency on the Extension of Rent Control," April 26, 1950.

Dates: 1949-1950