Series 2, Subseries 5. Administrative files, 1942-1946.

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Series 2, Subseries 5. Administrative files, 1942-1946.

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Consist of administrative documents of the National War Labor Board. Materials include directive orders; press releases; and minutes of Region 2 (1943-1946). Also included are statements, briefs and reports pertaining to Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company on issues of wage adjustment (1942); Textile Workers' Union of America vs. twenty-one cotton and rayon textile mills in New England on issues of wages and hours of work (1944); Associated Fur Coat and Trimming Manufacturers vs. Furriers' Joint Council of New York; and Fur Floor Boys and Shipping Clerks' Union on issues of job security, wages, death benefit, and insurance (1946).

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Textile Workers' Union of America

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Located in Boston, the TWUA began in 1937 as the Textile Workers' Organizing Committee of the CIO. By 1939, its success in organizing workers led to its becoming an independent CIO-affiliated union. One of the first victories was a contract with the American Woolen Co. in Lawrence, Mass. By 1942, mills in a number of New England cities were unionized. After World War II, the TWUA faced serious problems from national anti-labor legislation such as the Taft-Hartley Act, and the slump in the textil...

Fur Floor Boys and Shipping Clerks' Union.

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Furriers' Joint Council of New York.

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Associated Fur Coat and Trimming Manufacturers.

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Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company

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In this decision, the Supreme Court found that the president of the United States may not order the seizure of basic steel manufacturing plants during peacetime and without Congressional authorization. On April 8, 1952, President Harry S. Truman, responding to a threatened strike by the United Steelworkers of America (USWA), issued an executive order granting the secretary of commerce requisite power to seize the nation's major steel manufacturing plants. Secretary of Co...

United States. National War Labor Board (1942-1945)

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The National War Labor Board, a tri-partite body established in 1942 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, was charged with acting as an arbitration tribunal in labor-management dispute cases, thereby preventing work stoppages which might hinder the war effort. It was also responsible for determining wage adjustments in accordance with anti-inflationary wage stabilization criteria and policies. From the description of Series 1. General case files, 1913-1946, bulk 1942-1946. (Cornell Un...