Arbitration, Industrial -- Building trades -- United States

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.

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.

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).