Series 2, Subseries 4. National Commission on Industrial Peace files, 1971-1974.

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Series 2, Subseries 4. National Commission on Industrial Peace files, 1971-1974.

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Include correspondence, documents, flyers, and memoranda concerning the Commission. Materials concern the following issues and topics: legislation which would mandate compulsory arbitration; role of government in labor disputes; role of conciliation and mediation; the energy crisis; alternatives to strikes; economic stabilization program; Toledo (Ohio) Labor-Management Citizens' Committee; labor relations in federal service; quality of work and its impact on productivity; West coast longshoremen's contract negotiations; labor management relations in the atomic energy industry; public interest in national labor policy; collective bargaining and industrial peace; wage increases and upcoming negotiations; written grievances; avoidance of strikes; 1973 Longshoremen's Strike; cement industry; national emergency disputes (1971-1972); applications for executive director, NCIP; and a stabilization agreement in the sheet metal industry. Correspondence includes incoming and outgoing letters from the following: Stephen Bechtel; Peter J. Brennan (secretary of labor); John T. Dunlop; Gerald Ford; Paul Hall (Seafarers' International Union); R. Heath Larry (U.S. Steel); Charles Rehmus (Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, Wayne State University); Israel Ben Scheiber (lawyer); Abraham Lieberman (lawyer); Ralph T. Seward; Marvin Miller (Major League Baseball Players Association); George Meany; Maurice F. Neufeld (New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University); George P. Shultz (Bechtel); William J. Usery (Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service); and Leonard Woodcock (United Automobile Workers).

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Hall, Pauline Cook

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Rehmus, Charles M.

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Bechtel, Stephen.

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Neufeld, Maurice F.

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Larry, R. Heath.

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