Arbitration, Industrial -- Machine industry -- United States

Consists of over one thousand arbitration awards, primarily in the utilities, rubber, leather, transportation, retail food, steel, publishing, and construction industries. Also public employment awards for educational, postal, fire and police agencies.

Includes over 1500 arbitration awards, decisions, and related documents for cases arbitrated primarily in the industries of transportation, steel, men's clothing, retail food and retail trade, manufacturing, publishing, health care, bakery and confectionery, television, coal and oil, construction and electronics. Also, arbitration for various education and civil service agencies, primarily of the state of New York and New York City.

Case files include awards (and drafts); correspondence regarding individual cases; manuscript notes kept by Willcox on the cases; opinions; arbitrator's reports; grievance reports; agreements; union statements; summaries of testimony; briefs; decisions; transcripts of cases; exhibits; press releases; and other supporting documentation.

Case files regarding Gabriel Alexander's arbitration work.

Arbitration awards, decisions and related documents.

Records consist of documentation of labor-management dispute settlement and wage stabilization cases brought before various mediation panels of the National and Region 2 War Labor Boards, as well as the Non-Ferrous Metals Commission of the U.S. National War Labor Board.

The bulk of the collection consists of arbitration case files, chiefly in the railroad industry, presented before other industries (most notably the airline industry) and unions (most notably the International Brotherhood of Teamsters), also data collected by Seidenberg for an injunction study of the New York courts, as well as proceedings, transcriprts, and exhibits of two Presidential Emergency Boards on which Seidenberg served.

This collection is a portion of Wolfson's papers contain manuscripts and research materials for a project (1947-48) interviewing labor leaders for "Philosophy and Labor." Interviewees included leaders from the following unions: San Francisco Labor Council, San Francisco Labor Research Bureau, ILGWU's San Francisco Joint Board, California State Council of Retail Clerks, and Bay District Joint Council of Building Service Employees.