Arbitration files, ca. 1940-ca. 1970.

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Arbitration files, ca. 1940-ca. 1970.

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Contains transcripts, briefs, awards, and decisions relating to cases arbitrated by Maxwell Copelof. Contains transcripts, briefs, awards, and decisions relating to cases arbitrated by Maxwell Copelof. Significant cases include Amalgamated Bank of New York vs. United Office and Professional Workers of America (UOPWA) on the issue of job assignment (1941); American Bank Note Company vs. International Printing Pressmen and Assistants' Union of North America and Paper Handlers and Straighteners Union on issues of managerial prerogatives and starting and quitting times (1947); American Cyanamid Company vs. United Mine Workers of America, District 50, on issues of rates of pay, job classification, layoffs, and arbitrability (1949); American Hardware Corp. vs. United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) on issues of rates of pay, seniority, vacation pay, and retroactive pay (1946-1947); Other significant cases include American Hide and Leather Company vs. International Fur and Leather Workers' Union on issues of standards of production and rates of pay (1945); American Locomotive Company vs. United Steelworkers of America (USWA) on issues of overtime, schedules of work, time and motion studies, rates of pay, vacations and vacation pay (1943-1947); American Table Manufacturing Company vs. United Furniture Workers of America (UFW) on issues of rates of pay, job classification, holidays, holiday pay, and vacation pay (1942-1944); and American Woolen Company vs. Textile Workers' Union of America (TWUA) on issues of schedules of work, rates of pay, and reinstatement following illness or physical disability (1942-1949). Other cases include Amoskeag-Lawrence Mills, Inc. vs. TWUA on issues of standards of production, workload, rates of pay, managerial rights, arbitrability, discipline, discharge, layoff, and elimination of jobs (1945-1948); Arlington Mills vs. Federation of Woolen and Worsted Workers, AFL, on issues of standards of production, workload, rates of pay, equal pay for equal work, overtime, job classification, and bonus pay (1942-1946); Amory Worsted Mills vs. TWUA on issues of rates of pay, piecework vs. day work, vacations, vacation pay, and managerial prerogatives (1947-1948); Associated Shoe Industries, Inc. vs. International Brotherhood of Firemen and Oilers on issues of rates of pay, holidays, and holiday pay (1946-1949); and Avon Sole Co. vs. Brotherhood of Shoe and Allied Craftsmen, Rubber Sole and Heel Local, on issues of classification of jobs, rates of pay, discipline and discharge (1944-1949). Additional cases include Baldau Co. vs. United Packinghouse Workers of America (UPWA) on issues of rates of pay, discrimination, and recall (1949); Beggs & Cobb, Inc. vs. International Fur and Leather Workers' Union on the issue of rates of pay (n.d.); Beko Spinning Mill vs. TWUA on issues of union shop and schedules of work (1946); Bendix Corporation vs. United Automobile, Aircraft and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW) on issues of job assignment, added duties, elimination of jobs, promotion, seniority, and tardiness (1945); Boston Sausage and Provision Co. vs. UPWA on issues of discharge, standards of production, work breaks, overtime pay, performance of bargaining unit work by foremen and supervisors, violation of plant rules, holiday pay, layoff, and seniority (1942-1950); and Branch River Wool Combing Co. vs. TWUA on issues of work stoppage, past practice, insubordination, absenteeism, back pay, elimination of jobs, leave of absence, reduction in workforce, job transfers, contract modification, rates of pay, reporting pay, and vacation pay. Other cases include Celanese Corporation of America vs. UMW, District 50, on issues of working conditions and safety in shop (1947); Colonial Provision Co., Inc vs. UPWA on issues of rates of pay and disciplinary discharge (1942-1949); Corset and Brassiere Manufacturers Association vs. Corset and Brassiere Workers Union on issues of strikes and slowdowns (1939); Cranston Print Works Co. vs. United Textile Workers of America on issues of rates of pay, union security, standards of production, workload, discrimination, and union activities (1946); Endicott-Johnson Company vs. various operating employees of E-J on issues of rates of pay (1943-1945); Endicott-Johnson vs. United Shoe Workers of America on the issue of rates of pay (1945); and Fitchburg Yarn Co. vs. TWUA on issues of vacancies, seniority, arbitrability, and assignment of jobs (1945-1949). Other cases include Geisenheimer-Lewin, Inc. vs. Underwear and Negligee Workers Union on issues of rates of pay and discrimination (1938); General Cable Corp. vs. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) on issues of transfers, seniority, vacations, rates of pay, and equal pay for equal work (1943-1946); Gimbel Bros. vs. General Warehousemen's Union on issues of rates of pay and contract modification (1941); Gimbel Bros. vs. Retail Clerks International Protective Association on issues of contract modification and rates of pay (1941); Gimbel Bros. vs. Stenographers, Bookkeepers, Typists, Accountants and Assistants Union of Pittsburgh on issues of contract modification and rates of pay (1941); Gimbels Thirty-Third St. and Saks Thirty-Fourth St. vs. Department Store Employees Union on the issue of reinstatement (1949); and Gold Seal Shoe Co. vs. United Shoe Workers of America on issues of rates of pay, discipline, discharge, strikes, slowdowns, composition of bargaining unit, and assignment of jobs (1942-1944). Additional cases include International Shoe Company vs. United Shoe Workers of America on issues of rates of pay, disciplinary discharge, daywork vs. piecework, layoffs, promotions, transfers, filling of job vacancies, incentive pay, reinstatement following physical disability, reinstatement following leave of absence, disciplinary layoff, retroactive pay after pay rate revision, relation of foremen to bargaining unit, job classification, and discrimination in rates of pay (1943-1948); Monsanto Chemical Corp. vs. UE on issues of vacation pay, job classification, working conditions, rates of pay, equal pay for equal work, disciplinary layoff, job assignment, and disciplinary action for insubordination (1945-1949); Murray Co. vs. UE on issues of job jurisdiction, disciplinary discharge, and disciplinary suspension (1943-1944); and Mutual Shoe Co. vs. Marlboro Shoe Workers Associates, Inc. on the issue of reinstatement following military service (1943). Other cases include New York and Brooklyn Casket Company, Inc. vs. United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America on the issue of reinstatement following military service (1945); and Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. (Libby-Owens-Ford Glass Co.) vs. Federation of Glass, Ceramic and Silica Sand Workers of America on issues of contracting out union work, managerial prerogatives, seniority, rates of pay, contract modification, insubordination, standards of production, incentive pay, crew size, arbitrability, disciplinary layoff, job transfers, union security, and job jurisdiction (1943-1946). Other cases include Taber Instrument Corp. vs. UE on issues of discrimination and union representation (1947); Valley Motor Transit Co. vs. International Association Machinists (IAM) on the issue of interest arbitration (1944); Valley Motor Transit Co. vs. Amalgamated Association of Street, Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employees of America on the issue of interest arbitration (1944); and West Virginia Pulp and Paper Co. vs. United Paperworkers of America on issues of rate revision, rates of pay, discrimination, job classification, introduction of new technology, creation of new jobs, promotion, retroactive pay, discharge for improper personal conduct, layoff, job assignment, change in location, functions of supervisors and foremen, and reduction in workforce (1948-1950). Also substantial numbers of additional routine arbitrations in the shoe, women's clothing industry, and local transit industries.

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United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America

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International Association of Machinists.

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The International Association of Machinists is a trade union that was formed in 1888 by nineteen machinists in Atlanta, Georgia. From the description of International Association of Machinists records, 1947. (Georgia Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 308473936 History The International Association of Machinists (IAM) Lodge #68 is one of the oldest of the Bay Area Metal working unions and has a long and interesting ...

American Cyanamid Company

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NY. From the description of Folic acid and vitamin B-12. Their interrelationships. Technical bulletin no. 1, 1954. (College of Physicians of Philadelphia). WorldCat record id: 122632877 ...

Amory Worsted Mills, inc.

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Brotherhood of Shoe and Allied Craftsmen. Rubber Sole and Heel Local.

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United Steelworkers of America

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Monsanto Chemical Corp.

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United Textile Workers of America

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Marlboro Shoe Workers Associates, inc.

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Beko Spinning Mill.

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Avon Sole Company.

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United Shoe Workers of America

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United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America

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Associated Shoe Industries, inc.

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United Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Employees of America

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Federation of Woolen and Worsted Workers.

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American Hardware Corporation.

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Geisenheimer-Lewin, inc.

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American Locomotive Company

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Valley Motor Transit Company.

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United Furniture Workers of America

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United Packinghouse Workers of America

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Branch River Wool Combing Company.

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Mutual Shoe Company.

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Cranston Print Works Company

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Taber Instrument Corporation.

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Gold Seal Shoe Company.

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United Mine Workers of America. District 50

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United Office and Professional Workers of America, International.

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International Printing Pressmen and Assistants' Union of North America

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International Shoe Company

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Federation of Glass, Ceramic and Silica Sand Workers of America

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Pittsburgh plate glass company

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Textile Workers' Union of America

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Arlington Mills

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Arlington Woolen Mills organized in 1865 by Robert M. Bailey; name changed to Arlington Mills in 1875; in Lawrence, Mass., with additional facilities in Methuen, Mass.; in 1948 mills became known as Arlington Division of William Whitman & Company (also known as William Whitman Company); closed in 1952 and properties sold. From the description of Photographs, 1921. (Lawrence Public Library). WorldCat record id: 70974687 ...

Amoskeag-Lawrence Mills, inc.

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West Virginia pulp and paper company

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The son of a master paper maker in Aberdeen, Scotland, William Luke, arrived in American in 1852. Together, Luke and his sons John and David developed the first commercially successful method of manufacturing chemical wood pulp in this country. In 1887, under the auspices of the newly established Piedmont Pulp and Paper Company, the Lukes opened a paper mill on the West Virginia- Maryland border along the Potomac River. The company held its first stockholders meeting in Harper's Ferry, West Virg...

Endicott-Johnson Company.

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United Paperworkers of America

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American Bank Note Company

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General Warehousemen's Union.

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Bendix Corporation

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Founded in 1924 by Vincent Bendix to manufacture brake systems, by the mid-1950s the Bendix Corporation had branched out into many other areas, one of these being scientific instrumentation. Their flagship product in this area was the Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer and when newer developments resulted in instruments like the quadrupole mass spectrometer, Bendix saw its market share begin to erode. At first Bendix shifted its TOF MS business to a subsidiary, the Consolidated Vacuum Corporation ...

New York and Brooklyn Casket Company, inc.

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International Brotherhood of Firemen and Oilers

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Saks Department Store.

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General Cable Corporation

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Colonial Provision Company, inc.

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International Fur and Leather Workers' Union.

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The International Fur Workers Union was founded on June 16, 1913, by the delegates of eight American Federation of Labor unions representing 14,000 workers in all branches of the fur trade. During the 1920's the union was characterized by internal corruption, factional fighting, and heavy-handed leadership. Oranized crime gained a foothold in the New York fur district. Led by Ben Gold, chairman of the New York Joint Board, the radical element began a determined campaign ...

American Hide and Leather Company.

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American Woolen Company

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The company was located in Lawrence, Mass. From the description of [Business records]. 1915-1916. (American Textile History Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 50739060 Wood Mill was built in 1906 as part of the American Woolen Co., a worsted manufacturer. From the description of [Business records]. 1936-1955. (American Textile History Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 48668910 The company was located in Lawrence, Mass., with offices in New York City...