Series 1, Subseries 4. Western Union Telegraph Company vs. American Communications Association : proceedings, reports and documents, 1942-1944.

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Series 1, Subseries 4. Western Union Telegraph Company vs. American Communications Association : proceedings, reports and documents, 1942-1944.

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Consist primarily of documents generated by the National War Labor Board pertaining to Western Union Telegraph Company vs. American Communications Association (1942-1944) on the issues of wages, wage adjustment, shift differentials, vacation, holiday pay, military leave, and workers' rights.

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The bark Golden Gate and clipper ship Nightingale were both involved in the Western Union Telegraph Expedition to British Columbia, Alaska and Russia to survey areas where the Western Union Telegraph Company planned to construct a telegraph line linking America and Europe. The line was never completed. Charles S. Bulkley was Engineer-in-Chief and Charles M. Scammon was Chief of Marine. The bark Golden Gate was the flagship of the expedition from June 1865 to March 1866, after which the clipper s...

United States. National War Labor Board (1942-1945)

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The National War Labor Board, a tri-partite body established in 1942 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, was charged with acting as an arbitration tribunal in labor-management dispute cases, thereby preventing work stoppages which might hinder the war effort. It was also responsible for determining wage adjustments in accordance with anti-inflationary wage stabilization criteria and policies. From the description of Series 1. General case files, 1913-1946, bulk 1942-1946. (Cornell Un...

Meyer, Arthur S. (Arthur Simon), 1880-1955

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Arthur S. Meyer was a member of the New York State Board of Mediation from its inception in 1937. In 1940, he was appointed as its chairman, a position in which he served until his retirement in 1950. Before becoming a mediator, Meyer was a successful businessman, rising to the posts of president and director of the Schulte Real Estate Company and vice-president of the Schulte Retail Stores Corporation. In 1942, Meyer was named chairman of a U.S. War Labor Board panel to rule on the demands of t...

American Communications Association

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