Frank Traver De Vyver papers, 1914-1980.

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Frank Traver De Vyver papers, 1914-1980.

Concerns the labor situation in the industrializing South. Contains personal and official correspondence; documents on collective bargaining, employment security, labor-management collections, and the role of the Federal Government through such agencies as the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service and the National Joint Board for Settlement of Jurisdictional Disputes; printed material, including pamphlets, leaflets, and reprints, pertaining to the United Steelworkers of America, the Textile Workers Union of America, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, the Federal Advisory Council, General Motors, American Arbitration Association (which include such companies as Georgia Power Company, General Tire and Rubber Company, Weyerhaeuser Company, Duke Power Company, and Florida Power and Light Company), the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, and the War Production Board. Pictures include an 1899 photograph of a group of workers, mostly children, at a spinning mill; mill houses; and the Saxon Mills W.O.W. Band, Spartanburg, S.C. Serials included are Labor Relations Reporter, Labor Law Reports, Workers Education Bureau of America Newsletter, Textile Workers Voice, and Christian Economics. Articles written by De Vyver are also included. Accession 2010-0058 includes additional materials from De Vyver's career as an arbitrator and an economics professor, as well as several folders of material relating to wages and labor in South Africa during the 1960s. South Africa materials include conciliation agreements, company reports, wage reports, and other constitutions and agreements from various South African trade unions such as mining, textiles, sugar, and mills.

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