Paul Abelson. Series 2. Subject files, 1903-1953.

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Paul Abelson. Series 2. Subject files, 1903-1953.

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Include materials on the National Recovery Administration and the National Academy of Arbitrators and minutes, hearings transcripts, etc. of government and industry boards and commissions. Chiefly records relating to the National Recovery Administration (NRA), consisting of correspondence, draft of the Code of Fair Competition, publications (newsletter, pamphlets), statistical reports, hearings, proceedings, minutes, notes, questionnaires, and organizational charts of the Code Authority (CA) for the blouse and skirt industry, cap and cloth hat manufacturing industry, coat and suit industry, fur industry, hat industry, infants' and children's wear industry, lumber industry, men's clothing industry, millinery industry, and undergarment and negligee industry. In addition to the CA materials, the series includes administrative and executive orders, committee papers on apprentice training, memos, orders, news releases, reports, petitions, questionnaires, clippings, and pamphlets relating to the NRA. Also, lectures delivered by Abelson at Cornell University (1949) on the evolution of collective bargaining and contract administration in the clothing industry; minutes of the Board of Grievances of the cloak, suit and skirt industry, and transcripts of proceedings of the Joint Meeting of the Board of Grievances and the Wage Scale Board of the dress and waist industry (Aug. 26-Sept. 3, 1913); minutes, reports, publications, and correspondence of the New York State Wage Board of the cleaning and dyeing industry (1938-1939); reports, briefs, and recommendations of the Governor's Advisory Committee of the Cloak and Suit Industry (New York State Cloak and Suit Control Commission) (1913-1926); address by John A. Dyche, "The Protocol and the Union"; a manuscript by Abelson, "Grievance Machinery in the Women's Cloak and Suit Industry"; book chapters dealing with the national coat and suit industry, reports of the impartial chairman, and documents of the Recovery Board of the coat and suit industry (1936-1950); reports and correspondence of the Kehillah Jewish Community (1910-1918); Minimum Wage Board reports to the industrial commissioner from the beauty shop industry, cleaning and dyeing industry, confectionery industry, hotel and restaurant industry, and laundry industry (1935-1939); correspondence, membership lists, minutes, and programs of the National Academy of Arbitrators; and hearing transcripts for the fur and millinery industry under the National Recovery Administration (1934-1935). Also, miscellaneous materials relating to the silk, shoe, and millinery industry, including correspondence with Paul Douglas, Gordon Merritt, Henry Mayer, Julius Klein, and Raymond V. Ingersoll on the issues of strikes, unemployment, voluntary arbitration, protocol, legislation, and discrimination; also files on boards and commissions, including Tariff Board, Realty Advisory Board, New York State Labor Relations Board, New York State Factory Inspection Commission, New York State Board of Mediation, New York Hotel Trade Council, New York Board of Education, National War Labor Board, National Child Labor Committee, Municipal Committee for the Relief of Home Owners, Federal Trade Commission, Clothing Trades Commission, and Bureau of Industry. Union files include information on the Teamsters, United Cloth, Hat and Cap Makers, Radio Officers' Union, Pocketbook Workers, Brewery Workers, and Atlantic and Gulf Ship Operators' Association.

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