Series 2. Locals' files, 1885-1968, bulk 1941-1968.

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Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Series 2. Locals' files, 1885-1968, bulk 1941-1968.

Series 2. Locals' files, 1885-1968, bulk 1941-1968.

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Include Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen lodge book and files of certain BRT local lodges, including membership data and information concerning insurance and grievance cases, among other matters. Include Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen (BRT) lodge record book which contains data on membership, insurance, lodge chapters, and retirement funds; insurance "Policy Registers" (10 vol.) recording date of admission, initiation, transfer or withdrawal, as well as vital statistics of members holding insurance; minutes of the Oil Creek (Oil City, Penn.) Lodge No. 105 (1885-1959) (6 vol.); of Lodge No. 187 (Buffalo, N.Y.) (1898-1927) (11 vol.); of Perseverance Lodge No. 96 (Oneonta, N.Y.) of the Ladies' Auxiliary (10 vol.); and of Sunshine Lodge No. 595 (Albuquerque, N.M.) of the Ladies' Auxiliary (1917-1945) (1 vol. minutes and 1 vol. roll book). Also miscellaneous correspondence of Lodge No. 927 (Cleveland, Ohio) (1941-1945). Files of Lodge No. 143, Syracuse, N.Y. (1925-1968), include general chairman's files (1957-1961); correspondence regarding claims (1945-1966); agreements, 1960-1963; cases involving the "full crew" issue; General Grievance Committee files (1957-1961); membership applications (1940-1950); legislative representative reports (1963-1965); monthly financial statements (1964-1965); legislative reports (1950-1963); routine lodge correspondence (1946-1961); and minutes (1927-1951). General Grievance Committee files of Lodge No. 1000, (Indianapolis, Ind.) include awards of 1st Division of National Railroad Adjustment Board; bulletins of Toledo Division; cases appealed to General Grievance Committee over Sub-General Committee action; United Transportation Union (UTU) Local No. 166 (former BRT Lodge No. 1000) files of Local Committee of Adjustment on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (B & O); General Grievance Committee circulars; decisions of T.J. Lynch (general chairman, General Grievance Committee) in cases involving the B & O, Office of Superintendent, Dayton claims; strike documents (rules, instruction, etc.); cases and grievance complaints (1940-1950) regarding conductor promotions, discipline, suspension, reinstatement, conductors' rights, disability, personal injury, lockers for road and yardmen, lunch periods, complaints regarding B & O officials, leave of absence, failure to report, seniority, deadheading, displacement rights, held away from home terminal, paid holidays, initial terminal delay, and mileage claims. Also include letters of W.P. Kennedy (president, BRT), members of Lodge No. 1000, R.J. Roeder (superintendent, B & O Railroad), superintendent, trainmaster, and yardmaster, and W.G. Innis (secretary-treasurer, BRT) regarding grievance and complaint cases, conventions, conductors' representation dispute with the Order of Railway Conductors and the BRT (1942-1944, 1951), Hours of Service Law, (1932-1958), military service and veterans' education, the BRT Medical Department, and other routine lodge business.

18 linear ft.

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