John F. Collins, collector, United Transportation Union files, 1969-1971.

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John F. Collins, collector, United Transportation Union files, 1969-1971.

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Consists of a manuscript notebook containing a poll of union members and union officials employed on the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad. The poll concerned the merger which created the United Transportation Union.

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Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives

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Collins, John F.

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John Collins is a lawyer and government employee. At the time he accumulated these documents he was a fireman employed on the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad out of Buffalo, N.Y. and a law student. These materials were gathered for a research paper for a University of Buffalo seminar. From the guide to the John F. Collins, collector, United Transportation Union files, 1969-1971., (Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library) ...

United Transportation Union

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Erie-Lackawanna Railroad Company

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New York railroad formed by the merger of the Erie Railroad with the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad on Oct. 17, 1960. On April 1, 1968, the railroad merged with the Erie Lackawanna Railway Company of Delaware. On June 26, 1972, Erie Lackawanna Railway Company entered reorganization proceedings under federal bankruptcy act; in course of proceedings most of rail assets were required by law to be conveyed on Apr. 1, 1976 to Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail); on November 30, 1982,...