Copelof, Maxwell

Copelof served as Code Authority director, National Recovery Administration; panel arbitrator, New York State Board of Mediation; commissioner of conciliation, Arbitration Division, U.S. Department of Labor; and as a panel member, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. Copelof's private arbitration activities included service as impartial chairman, New York Corset Manufacturers Association and the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union and as impartial chairman or permanent arbitrator for several firms and unions in the textile, ladies' clothing and paper manufacturing industries and as an arbitrator for numerous individual cases. Copelof was also the author of Management-Union Arbitation (N.Y.: Harper and Brothers, 1948).

From the guide to the Maxwell Copelof arbitration files, ca. 1940-ca. 1970., (Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library)

Copelof, Maxwell, businessman; manufacturer; labor arbitrator; expert in industrial relations.

b. 10 June 1879, Kaunas, Lithuania.

s. Herman and Sarah Carnopsky Copelof.

ed. Public and private schools in the United States.

m. Ada B. Costigan, 23 July 1903; two children.

U.S. citizen.

1920's and 1930's owned and managed his own business which was a manufacturer of women's garments, in Boston; also engaged in wholesale business.

President and Executive Director, Merchants Ladies' Garment Association of New York (7 years).

Executive Director of Infants' and Children's Wear Code Authority, N.R.A. (during the life of the N.R.A.).

Member of Executive Committee of Trade Association Executives of New York City.

Member of arbitration panel of New York State Board of Mediation.

Impartial Chairman, Corset and Brassiere Industry of New York City (International Ladies Garment Workers Union).

1940-1947 Commissioner of Conciliation in the U.S. Department of Labor.

August 22, 1947 to August 21, 1948 employed by Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, U.S. Government, Washington, D.C.

Arbitrator for American Arbitration Association.

d. possibly in middle or late 1950's.

Author: Management - Union Arbitration, A Record of Cases, Methods and Decisions. New York: Harper and Row, 1948.

[source: Who's Who in Labor, 1946.]

From the guide to the Papers, 1940-1954, (Harvard Law School Library, Harvard University)

Maxwell Copelof was a government official and private arbitrator.

Copelof served as Code Authority director, National Recovery Administration; panel arbitrator, New York State Board of Mediation; commissioner of conciliation, Arbitration Division, U.S. Department of Labor; and as a panel member, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service.

Copelof's private arbitration activities included service as impartial chairman, New York Corset Manufacturers Association and the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union and as impartial chairman or permanent arbitrator for several firms and unions in the textile, ladies' clothing and paper manufacturing industries and as an arbitrator for numerous individual cases. Copelof was also the author of MANAGEMENT-UNION ARBITRATION (N.Y.: Harper and Brothers, 1948).

From the description of Arbitration files, ca. 1940-ca. 1970. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64755441