Railroads -- Employees -- Labor unions -- United States

Consists of proceedings and papers filed before the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Southern Division, by the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes and the Railway Labor Executives' Association, contesting a railroad merger between the Erie Railroad Company and the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company, on the grounds that it would result in loss of jobs guaranteed to union members.

Directories, constitutions, manuals, correspondence minutes and other miscellaneous additions to the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen Ledger

Arbitration case files, correspondence, monthly reports and state legislation reports.

These records deal chiefly with the union during the presidential terms of office of A.F. Whitney (1928-1949), W.P. Kennedy (1949-1963), and Charles Luna (1963-1968).

Correspondence, reports, minutes, and related materials.

Consists of research material pertaining to the great Burlington railroad strike of 1888.

Consists of two microfilm reels of correspondence of various officials of the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad outlining management's strategy for dealing with the 1977 strike.

Documents on the organizing effort of the Southern Pacific Rail Road Operating Crafts (SPROC) Union, collected by Edward Heisler

Papers of the major American socialist figure of the late 19th and early 20th Century