Series 4, Subseries 5. Selected subject files, 1915-1968.

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Series 4, Subseries 5. Selected subject files, 1915-1968.

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Subject files include materials on all aspects of the work of the Board. Of interest are the files on the issues of caboose use by railroad crews, flagging, the full crew issue, the Pennsylvania Railroad-New York Central Railroad merger, sanitary conditions in the workplace, and unemployment compensation. Caboose use data include letters of S.F. Dwyer (director, Bureau of Inspection, Department of Labor and Industry), C.J. Sludden, Bruce J. Milliren (secretary, Industrial Board of Pennsylvania, Department of Labor and Industry), legislative representatives and Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen (BRT) members. Correspondence regards lack of maintenance and improper conditions in rider cars, the use of reflectorized markers and rear end marker lamps; caboose inspection reports of the Bureau of Inspection, Department of Labor and Industry; a BRT petition for an amendment to regulations regarding industrial sanitation and railroad sanitation; and Erie-Lackawanna Railroad caboose repair reports, among other documents (1955-1965). Flagging files include Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) accident investigation reports, wage rates, and a statement at hearings on the Reading Railroad; letters of C.J. Sludden, Al H. Chesser, J.W. Reinhard (secretary, Pennsylvania Public Utilities Commission), J.J. Dillon (legislative representative, BRT Lodge No. 382), J.M. Reilly (general chairman), Charles Luna, and Thomas Park Shearer (attorney) regarding unsafe conditions on the Pennsylvania Railroad (East), discussions of rear end flag protection, flagging rule #99, road and yard crews consist issues, minimum safe crew consist, and a petition by railroad brotherhoods for flagging regulations; "State's Right to Require Supplemental Train Protection in View of the Interstate Commerce Act," a paper (1968); briefs of cases before the Supreme Court on the issue; ICC investigations of accidents resulting from signal failure and related causes (1962); operating rules for railroads with respect to flag protection against following trains; case briefs before the Public Service Commission, the BRT vs. the Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines, Pennsylvania Railroad, Missouri-Pacific Railroad, and Baltimore & Ohio Railroad; and monthly statistics on reportable injuries or accidents involving employees (1954-1964); and other related documents. Files on full crew laws (1915-1966) include letters of George B. Roward, Harry G. Walsh (vice-chairman, State Legislative Board, BRT), Thomas J. McGrath (general counsel), H.C. Walsh (chairman, Pennsylvania State Legislative Board), A.F. Whitney, J.A. Farquharson (national legislative representative, BRT), C.J. Sludden, H.F. Sites (chairman, General Grievance Committee, BRT), Charles Luna, W.P. Kennedy, and W.L. Reed (assistant to the president, BRT) and others, discussing accidents, safety regulations, the full crew bill before the Pennsylvania legislature, the Supreme Court's enforcement of full crew laws, and the establishment of minimum requirements in equipping railroad cars used in employee transportation; papers on full crew and train limit bills, social progress and railroad costs; report of hearings before the Senate Judiciary Special Committee on the full crew and train limit bills of Pennsylvania (1935); report on operations of crews to and from various terminals on Pennsylvania railroads; and reports on full crew violations (1956-1958). Files also include legal materials for cases before the Pennsylvania Public Service Commission and the Pennsylvania Utilities Commission regarding investigations into violations of full crew laws, chiefly involving the BRT and the Order of Railway Conductors, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen vs. Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad, Pennsylvania Railroad, Reading Railroad, Delaware and Hudson Railroad, Monongahela Railway, Central Railroad of New Jersey, Cumberland Valley Railroad, and Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Files regarding the merger of the Pennsylvania and the New York Central Railroads include correspondence of W.P. Kennedy and C.J. Sludden; reviews of the economic consequences of the merger for the state of Pennsylvania and for railroad employees; requests for additional ICC hearings on the impact of the merger; documents relating to the development of an "Anti-Merger" Committee; and legal documents, statistical compilations and other data regarding its impact. Also included is a 1966 agreement between the Pennsylvania and the New York Central Railroads and employees represented by the BRT and the Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen detailing employment procedures in the event of a merger (ca. 1962-1966). Railroad sanitary condition information (1951-1965) includes letters of S.F. Dwyer, C.J. Sludden, and Eugene Zapparelli (superintendent, Bureau of Inspection, Department of Labor and Industry) regarding sanitary regulations; reports pertaining to corrective measures for unsafe and unsanitary conditions on Pennsylvania Railroad, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Central Railroad of New Jersey, Delaware and Hudson Railroad, Erie-Lackawanna Railroad, Lehigh Valley Railroad, New York Central Railroad, Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad, and Reading Railroad. Unemployment compensation files (1955-1966) contain copies of proposed legislation, statements by Harry Boyer and J.L. Shearer (Bethlehem Steel Corporation) before the Joint State Government Commissioners Task Force on Unemployment Compensation; "Let's Not Squander the Opportunity to Revise Pennsylvania Unemployment Compensation Program," a paper by Milton Shapp; testimony on HR.8282, the employment security amendments; and a report by Jack B. Brown (executive director, Bureau of Employment Security) on progress achieved by Pennsylvania's reform of unemployment compensation programs, among numerous other documents.

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