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Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Series 1, Subseries 4. Financial files, 1925-1968.

Title: Series 1, Subseries 4. Financial files, 1925-1968.

Files on financial reports include letters (carbons and originals), with statements (1960-1967) of W.P. Kennedy (president, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen (BRT)) and Harry See (BRT, national legislative representative) regarding BRT medical payments for retired members; memos and financial reports (1925-1967) from Home for Disabled and Aged Railroad Employees; and monthly reports of general secretary-treasurer, BRT Grand Lodge (1956-1961). Also Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) finance dockets (1951-1968) regarding discontinuances, abandonment, trackage elimination, trackage rights, application of railroads to acquire control of other lines, mergers, and consolidation. Included in the materials are testimony and legal papers, notices to parties, orders and certificates, briefs, petitions, statements, reports, clippings, telegrams, and letters of Donald S. Beattie (executive secretary, Railway Labor Executives' Association), Harold D. McCoy (secretary, ICC), Kennedy, Charles Luna, Francis J. Esposito (general chairman, BRT), E.A. Martin (state legislative representative, BRT), Al H. Chesser (national legislative representative, BRT), G.W. Ballard (California state legislative representative, BRT), and L.K. Faulkner (general chairman, BRT).

ArchivalResource: 7.5 linear ft.

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Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Series 2. Locals' files, 1885-1968, bulk 1941-1968.

Title: Series 2. Locals' files, 1885-1968, bulk 1941-1968.

Include Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen lodge book and files of certain BRT local lodges, including membership data and information concerning insurance and grievance cases, among other matters. Include Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen (BRT) lodge record book which contains data on membership, insurance, lodge chapters, and retirement funds; insurance "Policy Registers" (10 vol.) recording date of admission, initiation, transfer or withdrawal, as well as vital statistics of members holding insurance; minutes of the Oil Creek (Oil City, Penn.) Lodge No. 105 (1885-1959) (6 vol.); of Lodge No. 187 (Buffalo, N.Y.) (1898-1927) (11 vol.); of Perseverance Lodge No. 96 (Oneonta, N.Y.) of the Ladies' Auxiliary (10 vol.); and of Sunshine Lodge No. 595 (Albuquerque, N.M.) of the Ladies' Auxiliary (1917-1945) (1 vol. minutes and 1 vol. roll book). Also miscellaneous correspondence of Lodge No. 927 (Cleveland, Ohio) (1941-1945). Files of Lodge No. 143, Syracuse, N.Y. (1925-1968), include general chairman's files (1957-1961); correspondence regarding claims (1945-1966); agreements, 1960-1963; cases involving the "full crew" issue; General Grievance Committee files (1957-1961); membership applications (1940-1950); legislative representative reports (1963-1965); monthly financial statements (1964-1965); legislative reports (1950-1963); routine lodge correspondence (1946-1961); and minutes (1927-1951). General Grievance Committee files of Lodge No. 1000, (Indianapolis, Ind.) include awards of 1st Division of National Railroad Adjustment Board; bulletins of Toledo Division; cases appealed to General Grievance Committee over Sub-General Committee action; United Transportation Union (UTU) Local No. 166 (former BRT Lodge No. 1000) files of Local Committee of Adjustment on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (B & O); General Grievance Committee circulars; decisions of T.J. Lynch (general chairman, General Grievance Committee) in cases involving the B & O, Office of Superintendent, Dayton claims; strike documents (rules, instruction, etc.); cases and grievance complaints (1940-1950) regarding conductor promotions, discipline, suspension, reinstatement, conductors' rights, disability, personal injury, lockers for road and yardmen, lunch periods, complaints regarding B & O officials, leave of absence, failure to report, seniority, deadheading, displacement rights, held away from home terminal, paid holidays, initial terminal delay, and mileage claims. Also include letters of W.P. Kennedy (president, BRT), members of Lodge No. 1000, R.J. Roeder (superintendent, B & O Railroad), superintendent, trainmaster, and yardmaster, and W.G. Innis (secretary-treasurer, BRT) regarding grievance and complaint cases, conventions, conductors' representation dispute with the Order of Railway Conductors and the BRT (1942-1944, 1951), Hours of Service Law, (1932-1958), military service and veterans' education, the BRT Medical Department, and other routine lodge business.

ArchivalResource: 18 linear ft.

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Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen series 6. General subject files, 1897-1968, bulk 1934-1968.

Title: Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen series 6. General subject files, 1897-1968, bulk 1934-1968.

Includes correspondence, mss. and printed reports and documents created by or of interest to national officers of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen (BRT). Included are correspondence and documents on the relations between the BRT and the other operating railroad brotherhoods, specifically concerning the controversy between the BRT and the Switchmen's Union of North America (SUNA) involving black railroad employees (1935), as well as litigation between the unions regarding rival unionism on the Akron, Canton and Youngstown Railroad (1936-1937); correspondence between the presidents of the BRT and the Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen (ORC & B) regarding relations between their unions (1940-1941); and miscellaneous materials regarding the merger of the BRT, the ORC & B, SUNA, and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen (BLF & E) (1968). Correspondence and documents relating to Canadian matters, include the vacation agreement of 1941, the dues checkoff agreement of 1953, and a file on the Canadian Full Crew Law (1960-1964). Correspondence and circulars of the BRT Constitution Committee regard job protection for union members, vacations, the closed shop, the Railroad Retirement Act, dues checkoff, insurance premiums, contested union elections, and BRT policies regarding strikes of other unions (1946-1950). Legislation files (ca. 1957-1968) include letters of Charles Luna, W.P. Kennedy, and G.W. Rogers (secretary-treasurer, BRT), proceedings, copies of bills and acts, statements, reports, booklets and pamphlets, bill amendments, press releases, financial dockets, arbitration proceedings, and telegrams re Hours of Service Act (1957-1967), Power Brake Law of 1958 (1958-1966), Railroad Safety Appliance Act (1911, 1922, 1963-1966), Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (1959-1962), Railroad Retirement Act of 1935 (1964-1967), Railway Labor Act, Norris-La Guardia Act (1965-1966), Transportation Act of 1958, Federal Employers' Liability Act (1958-1968), Canadian Full Crew Law (1960-1964), and Washington Job Protection Agreement (1960). Files on the National Railroad Adjustment Board (NRAB) include awards, dockets, and statistics for cases handled and disposed of by NRAB (1949-1950); letters of R.J. Brooks (deputy president, BRT), G.H. Side (vice-president and general manager, Wabash Railroad), and E.D. Conner (general chairman, BRT) regarding changes in the rules of procedure with respect to ex-parte submissions (1949) and status of dockets before NRAB (1948); and letters, clippings, opinions, statements, and other materials concerning crew consist rules in Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. Files on railroads (1941-1968) include briefs, reports, letters, articles, government and legal documents regarding job protection, passenger service train discontinuance, fair competition, trackage rights, consolidation of trains, discontinuance, abandonment of trackage, increase in passenger fares, reduced train service, and improper main passenger service and equipment. Railroads mentioned in these files include the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad (1958-1967), the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (1961-1968), the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (1960-1968), the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad (1957-1959), the Boston and Maine Railroad (1962-1967), the Chicago and North Western Railway (1941-1948), the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (1943-1948), the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (1950-1956), and the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, Old Colony Division (1948-1950). Railway Labor Executives' Association (RLEA) files (1934-1965) include RLEA by-laws, scattered meeting minutes and agendas, correspondence between W.P. Kennedy (president, BRT) Harry See (national legislative representative, BRT) and RLEA officials, and correspondence between BRT and RLEA officials regarding BRT's reaffiliation with the RLEA (1955-1956), among other documents. Of interest is a 1934 report of RLEA with reference to its response to a railroad proposal that basic wage rates of their employees be reduced by fifteen percent. Files on safety include correspondence regarding the safety of bus equipment (1963-1968) and correspondence and draft legislation on safety standards for railroad equipment. Also correspondence regarding the size and weight of trucks using U.S. highways and a resolution regarding vehicle size and weights. Also a 1943 typed draft of a "Biography of Alexander F. Whitney" by the Education and Research Bureau of the BRT and clippings regarding his death (1949), among numerous other documents.

ArchivalResource: 10 linear ft.

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Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Series 4, Subseries 3. General legislative files, 1953-1963.

Title: Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Series 4, Subseries 3. General legislative files, 1953-1963.

Include correspondence of Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen (BRT) officers concerning national and state legislation as well as statements and Congressional testimony by union officers and public figures regarding legislation of concern to the Brotherhood. Correspondents include C.J. Sludden, U.S. Senators Edward Martin and James H. Duff, W.E. Price, M.J. Murphy, and W.P. Kennedy, among others. File also includes statements of various union and public figures on legislation of interest to the Brotherhood. Examples are the testimony of G.E. Leighty before the Transportation and Aeronautics Sub-Committee of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce regarding passenger train service legislation, a statement of Harry Boyer (president, Pennsylvania AFL-CIO) before the Joint Legislative Committee studying the proposed criminal codes, in support of the right to privacy, and numerous other statements and testimony supporting or opposing individual bills before the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate and the Pennsylvania legislature.

ArchivalResource: 4 linear ft.

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Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Series 4, Subseries 5. Selected subject files, 1915-1968.

Title: Series 4, Subseries 5. Selected subject files, 1915-1968.

Subject files include materials on all aspects of the work of the Board. Of interest are the files on the issues of caboose use by railroad crews, flagging, the full crew issue, the Pennsylvania Railroad-New York Central Railroad merger, sanitary conditions in the workplace, and unemployment compensation. Caboose use data include letters of S.F. Dwyer (director, Bureau of Inspection, Department of Labor and Industry), C.J. Sludden, Bruce J. Milliren (secretary, Industrial Board of Pennsylvania, Department of Labor and Industry), legislative representatives and Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen (BRT) members. Correspondence regards lack of maintenance and improper conditions in rider cars, the use of reflectorized markers and rear end marker lamps; caboose inspection reports of the Bureau of Inspection, Department of Labor and Industry; a BRT petition for an amendment to regulations regarding industrial sanitation and railroad sanitation; and Erie-Lackawanna Railroad caboose repair reports, among other documents (1955-1965). Flagging files include Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) accident investigation reports, wage rates, and a statement at hearings on the Reading Railroad; letters of C.J. Sludden, Al H. Chesser, J.W. Reinhard (secretary, Pennsylvania Public Utilities Commission), J.J. Dillon (legislative representative, BRT Lodge No. 382), J.M. Reilly (general chairman), Charles Luna, and Thomas Park Shearer (attorney) regarding unsafe conditions on the Pennsylvania Railroad (East), discussions of rear end flag protection, flagging rule #99, road and yard crews consist issues, minimum safe crew consist, and a petition by railroad brotherhoods for flagging regulations; "State's Right to Require Supplemental Train Protection in View of the Interstate Commerce Act," a paper (1968); briefs of cases before the Supreme Court on the issue; ICC investigations of accidents resulting from signal failure and related causes (1962); operating rules for railroads with respect to flag protection against following trains; case briefs before the Public Service Commission, the BRT vs. the Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines, Pennsylvania Railroad, Missouri-Pacific Railroad, and Baltimore & Ohio Railroad; and monthly statistics on reportable injuries or accidents involving employees (1954-1964); and other related documents. Files on full crew laws (1915-1966) include letters of George B. Roward, Harry G. Walsh (vice-chairman, State Legislative Board, BRT), Thomas J. McGrath (general counsel), H.C. Walsh (chairman, Pennsylvania State Legislative Board), A.F. Whitney, J.A. Farquharson (national legislative representative, BRT), C.J. Sludden, H.F. Sites (chairman, General Grievance Committee, BRT), Charles Luna, W.P. Kennedy, and W.L. Reed (assistant to the president, BRT) and others, discussing accidents, safety regulations, the full crew bill before the Pennsylvania legislature, the Supreme Court's enforcement of full crew laws, and the establishment of minimum requirements in equipping railroad cars used in employee transportation; papers on full crew and train limit bills, social progress and railroad costs; report of hearings before the Senate Judiciary Special Committee on the full crew and train limit bills of Pennsylvania (1935); report on operations of crews to and from various terminals on Pennsylvania railroads; and reports on full crew violations (1956-1958). Files also include legal materials for cases before the Pennsylvania Public Service Commission and the Pennsylvania Utilities Commission regarding investigations into violations of full crew laws, chiefly involving the BRT and the Order of Railway Conductors, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen vs. Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad, Pennsylvania Railroad, Reading Railroad, Delaware and Hudson Railroad, Monongahela Railway, Central Railroad of New Jersey, Cumberland Valley Railroad, and Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Files regarding the merger of the Pennsylvania and the New York Central Railroads include correspondence of W.P. Kennedy and C.J. Sludden; reviews of the economic consequences of the merger for the state of Pennsylvania and for railroad employees; requests for additional ICC hearings on the impact of the merger; documents relating to the development of an "Anti-Merger" Committee; and legal documents, statistical compilations and other data regarding its impact. Also included is a 1966 agreement between the Pennsylvania and the New York Central Railroads and employees represented by the BRT and the Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen detailing employment procedures in the event of a merger (ca. 1962-1966). Railroad sanitary condition information (1951-1965) includes letters of S.F. Dwyer, C.J. Sludden, and Eugene Zapparelli (superintendent, Bureau of Inspection, Department of Labor and Industry) regarding sanitary regulations; reports pertaining to corrective measures for unsafe and unsanitary conditions on Pennsylvania Railroad, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Central Railroad of New Jersey, Delaware and Hudson Railroad, Erie-Lackawanna Railroad, Lehigh Valley Railroad, New York Central Railroad, Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad, and Reading Railroad. Unemployment compensation files (1955-1966) contain copies of proposed legislation, statements by Harry Boyer and J.L. Shearer (Bethlehem Steel Corporation) before the Joint State Government Commissioners Task Force on Unemployment Compensation; "Let's Not Squander the Opportunity to Revise Pennsylvania Unemployment Compensation Program," a paper by Milton Shapp; testimony on HR.8282, the employment security amendments; and a report by Jack B. Brown (executive director, Bureau of Employment Security) on progress achieved by Pennsylvania's reform of unemployment compensation programs, among numerous other documents.

ArchivalResource: 38.7 linear ft.

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Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Series 1, Subseries 3. Convention files, 1935-1954, bulk 1949-1954.

Title: Series 1, Subseries 3. Convention files, 1935-1954, bulk 1949-1954.

Files on conventions include proceedings of the Committee of the Whole in consideration of the report of the Committee on Constitution and General rules (1935); routine letters of local lodge officers with W.P. Kennedy (president, BRT) (1949-1950); amendments submitted by Constitution Committee (1950); data on delegate election to BRT convention (1950); resolutions and reports adopted (1950); position statements of BRT on various legislation and policies (1950); Promotion Committee report (1950); statement by W.P. Kennedy upon his election to office; delegate instructions and ballots (1954-1955); legislative assessments (1954); minutes and letters regarding issue of admittance of blacks into the union; convention minutes (1954); report by Committee on Promotions; miscellaneous materials of the Ritual Committee (1954-1955); data on candidates for election to union offices (1955-1962); convention data analysis; and information on the issue of compulsory retirement for officers.

ArchivalResource: 2.5 linear ft.

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