Guthrie, Paul N. (Paul Newman), 1903-

Paul Newman Guthrie served as vice-chair of Region IV of the National War Labor Board during World War II, was a member of numerous presidential emergency boards in railroad and airline labor disputes in the 1950s and 1960s, served as an arbitrator in labor-management disputes in many industries, and served on the faculty of the School of Business Administration, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1946-1974.

From the description of Paul Newman Guthrie papers, 1943-1975. WorldCat record id: 26064098

• 1903: Paul Newman Guthrie born 3 December in Greene County, Tenn., one of five children of William Lawson and Sally L. (Berry) Guthrie.
• 1926: B.A., University of Tennessee
• 1932: B.D., Union Theological Seminary
• 1932: M.A., Columbia University
• 1935 - 1942 : Taught at Randolph-Macon Women's College
• 1940: Co-author, The Path I Trod (Columbia University Press)
• 1943 - 1944 : Director, Disputes Division, Region IV, National War Labor Board, Atlanta
• 1944 - 1946 : Vice-chair and public member, Region IV National War Labor Board
• 1945: Chair, Southern Textile Commission
• 1946: Ph.D., Columbia University; director, Wage Stablization Division, National Wage Stabilization Board; joined faculty of University of North Carolina School of Business Administration (teaching specialties: labor economics, industrial relations)
• 1950 - : Referee for the National Railroad Adjustment Board; member of numerous presidential emergency boards in railroad and airline labor disputes; member, National Academy of Arbitrators
• 1951 - 1952 : One of three public members of Wage Stabilization Board, Region IV;
• 1952: One of six public members, Federal Wage Stabilization Board
• 1957: President, National Academy of Arbitrators
• 1963: One of three members of an emergency board to decide a dispute between Eastern Airlines and the Flight Engineers International Association; served on emergency board to make recommendations for settlement of dispute between the Florida East Coast Railway and eleven non-operating unions
• 1969: Head, mediation panel, food workers' strike, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• 1974: Retired as professor of economics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

From the guide to the Paul Newman Guthrie Papers, 1943-1975, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.)