NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY. CHIEF OF LABOR RELATIONS:
An Inventory of Its Records at the Minnesota Historical Society
Manuscripts Collection
OVERVIEW
| Creator: | Northern Pacific Railway Company. Chief of Labor Relations, creator. | |
| Title: | Chief of Labor Relations records. Northern Pacific Railway Company records. | |
| Dates: | 1908-1969. | |
| Language: | Materials in English. | |
| Abstract: | General files, negotiation and agreement files, and mediation and arbitration files created by the Northern Pacific administrative unit responsible for managing the company's employee relations. | |
| Quantity: | 82.0 cubic feet. | |
| Location: | See Detailed Description for shelf locations. |
SCOPE AND CONTENTS
General files (1908-1969) contain information on personnel policies and procedures, relations with various unions, wage agreements and salary structures, employment of women and foreign workers, and the labor policies of other railroads. There are also files (1956-1967) relating to the department's work in planning for the company's 1970 merger.
Files on negotiations and agreements document negotiations with the company's principal bargaining units and the agreements and wage schedules that resulted. Mediation and arbitration files (1914-1961) include materials on a number of federal labor board proceedings in which Northern Pacific [NP] was involved.
ARRANGEMENT
These documents are organized into the following sections:
| General Files | ||
| General Files, 1908-1969 | ||
| General Order No. 27, Wages of Railroad Employees, 1918-1944 | ||
| Fair Labor Standards Act Rulings, 1938-1953 | ||
| Association of Western Railways Circulars, 1948-1957 | ||
| Consolidation Files, 1956-1967 | ||
| Negotiations and Agreements | ||
| Agreements and Decisions, 1919-1953 | ||
| Labor Claim Files, 1920-1944 | ||
| Schedule Negotiations, 1908-1922 | ||
| Engineer and Firemen Negotiating Files, 1918-1949 | ||
| Engineers' Negotiating Files, 1939-1943 | ||
| Non-Operating Employee Negotiating Files, 1936-1954 | ||
| Clerks Agreement File, June 1, 1946 | ||
| Miscellaneous Agreements, 1947-1955 | ||
| Arbitration File, Conductors and Trainmen v Northern Pacific Railway Company, 1910-1915 | ||
| Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway Schedule Files, 1910-1963 | ||
| Willapa Harbor Logging Railroad Company Case, 1931-1938 | ||
| Minnesota and International Railway Schedule Files, 1935-1941 | ||
| 15 Percent Wage Reduction Files, 1938 | ||
| Lake Superior Terminal & Transfer Railway Company Schedule Files, 1938-1960 | ||
| Duluth Union Depot & Transfer Company Schedule Files, 1938-1961 | ||
| Ore Dock Foreman and Laborers Briefs Before the Interstate Commerce Commission, 1939 | ||
| St. Paul Union Depot Claim, 1940-1959 | ||
| Railway Mediation and Arbitration Boards | ||
| Biographical Sketches of Members of Emergency and Arbitration Boards, 1949 | ||
| Arbitration Board Proceedings, 1914-1960 | ||
| President's Emergency Board Proceedings, 1941-1962 | ||
| Board of Adjustment Decisions, 1918-1947 | ||
| U.S. Railroad Labor Board Files, 1920-1957 | ||
| National Railroad Adjustment Board Awards, 1st-4th Divisions, 1934-1948 | ||
| National Railroad Adjustment Board Cases, 1st-4th Divisions, 1936-1961 | ||
| Presidential Railroad Commission, Transcript of Proceedings, February 16-October 31, 1961 | ||
OTHER FINDING AIDS
Additional records (Miscellaneous labor files of the Minnesota Division, 1903-1945, 1 cubic foot) are held by Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. They are in the Labor-Management Documentation Center, M. P. Catherwood Library.
The records include a letterpress book (1904-1909) containing certificates of examination for conductors and engineers; a letterpress book (1903-1907) recording dismissals and resignations of Minneapolis employees; and 72 claims brought before the Train Service Board of Adjustment.
Records of the Labor Relations Department are also contained in the Miscellaneous Subject Files of the General Manager's records. This series of correspondence contains many files with substantive information on strikes, conferences with labor organizations, the Pullman boycott, and Coxey's Army (1894), among other labor topics.
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Availability:
The collection is open for research use.
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Chief of Labor Relations records. Northern Pacific Railway Company Records. Minnesota Historical Society.
See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.
Accession Information:
Accession numbers: 4288; 4289; 4290; 4291; 4292; 4293; 4294; 4295; 4296; 4297; 4298; 4299; 4300; 4301; 4302; 4303; 4304; 4305; 4306; 4307; 4308; 4310; 4314; 4315; 4316; 4317; 4322; 4337; 4338; 4339; 4340; 4341; 4342; 4343; 4344; 4345; 4346; 6131; 6132; 6133; 6134; 6135; 6136; 6137; 6138; 6141; 6142B; 6143; 6144; 6145; 6146; 6148; 6150; 6153; 6154; 6155; 6156; 6157; 6163; 6164; 6165; 6166; 6743; 6744; 6745; 6746; 6747; 6748; 6749; 6750; 6751; 6752; 6753; 6754; 6755; 6756; 6757; 6758; 6759; 6760; 6761; 6762; 6763; 6764; 6765; 6766; 6767; 6776; 6777; 6780; 6781; 6782; 6783; 6785; 6786; 6787; 6791; 6794; 6795; 6796; 6797; 6798; 6799; 6800; 6801; 6802; 6803; 6804; 6805; 6806A; 6806B; 6807; 6808; 6809; 6810; 7639; 7640; 7641; 7642; 7643; 7644; 7645; 7646; 8812; 8823; 8824; 8825; 8826; 8827; 8828; 11,540
Processing Information:
Catalog ID number: 990017199030104294
Work on the Northern Pacific Railway Company records was supported with funds granted by the Northwest Area Foundation, the Grotto Foundation, and the Jerome Foundation.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
GENERAL FILES
General Files, 1908-1969
| Selected files of correspondence, reports, circulars, and miscellany regarding personnel policies and practices, job and salary structures, relations with employees and unions, and other matters affecting the railroad's work force. About half of the files consist of inquiries from other railroads, and the Northern Pacific's replies. Several files relate to the employment of women or foreign workers. | |||||||||||||
| These files were selected from a voluminous series of materials, most of which consisted of routine complaints and literature from other railroads and from the Association of American Railroads. | |||||||||||||
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| 136.B.13.16F | 1 | File No. 13. Pensions, 1920-1945. | |||||||||||
| File No. 40. Standardization of station forces, 1923-1924. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 47. National legislation for highway motor traffic-trains versus motor buses, 1925-1937. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 48-3. National Railroad Adjustment Board, 1934-1953. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 50. Chinese students selected by Chinese government for Northern Pacific employment, 1926-1946. | |||||||||||||
| File Nos. 53/158-53/325. Inquiries from foreign roads regarding agreements, rates of pay, working conditions, use of equipment, and related issues on the Northern Pacific, 1932-1969. | |||||||||||||
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| 136.B.14.1B | 2 | File Nos. 53/326-53/620. Inquiries from foreign roads, 1932-1969. | |||||||||||
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| 136.B.14.2F | 3 | File Nos. 53/621-53/850. Inquiries from foreign roads, 1932-1969. | |||||||||||
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| 136.B.14.3B | 4 | File Nos. 53/851-53/1099. Inquiries from foreign roads, 1932-1969. | |||||||||||
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| 136.B.14.4F | 5 | File Nos. 53/1100-53/1135. Inquiries from foreign roads, 1932-1969. | |||||||||||
| File No. 54. Mexican labor supervisor, 1944. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 59. Minnesota and International Railway Company, inquiries concerning claims originating on their line, 1922-1938. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 100. Formation of adjustment boards, 1926-1935. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 105. Record of conferences held with general chairmen of various organizations, 1926-1944. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 117. Mallet locomotives, history of, 1908-1941. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 134. Historical record of wage increases to train and enginemen prior to 1918, 1928-1929. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 163. Mileage limitation during depression, 1931-1941. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 165. Arbitration of eight clerks' cases in 1930, 1930-1931. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 167. History of double header rule, 1928. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 173. Transfer gang at Parkwater, 1929-1940. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 178. Married women in service, Operating Department, 1931-1932. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 181. Establishment of 5-day week for clerical employees, 1931-1932. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 182. Consolidation of Seattle and Tacoma divisions, 1932. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 243. Shop craft organizations of western lines, 1932-1934. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 274. Agreement between Minnesota and International Railway Company and its clerical employees, 1922-1933. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 288. Proposed consolidation of work now performed by signalmen, telegraph and telephone maintenance and construction men, 1934-1937. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 289. Great Northern Railway Company contracting maintenance jobs, 1933. | |||||||||||||
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| 136.B.14.5B | 6 | File No. 458. List of train, yardmen, enginemen, conductor's and clerk's cases, 1934-1948. | |||||||||||
| File No. 603. Cowlitz, Chehalis and Cascade Railway train and enginemen wage and working condition agreement, 1939-1949. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 612. Head-of-the-Lakes ore dock workers request for pay increase, 1940-1943. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 656. Aliens, 1942-1952. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 799. Proposed contract with Defense Plant Corporation for rehabilitation of Ashland line for emergency handling of ore to Escanaba in event of damage to Soo Locks, 1943. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 852. Compensation for Japanese and Italian kitchen help, 1943-1944. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 855. Northern Pacific general instructions governing employment of women for railroad service, 1943-1944. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 862. Employment of women in preference to Mexicans, Italian and German prisoners of war, 1943. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 900. Midland Railway of Manitoba vacation with pay agreement for employees not covered by other agreements, 1944-1950. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 1007. Northern Pacific Terminal Company of Oregon agreement with clerks organization, 1944-1947. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 1025. St. Paul Union Depot, request from locomotive firemen and enginemen for certain rule changes, 1945. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 1211. International Longshoreman's Association and Stevedore Association at Head-of-the-Lakes request for rate increase, 1947-1954. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 1237. List of schedule rule interpretations and special agreements on Northern Pacific covering engineers and firemen, conductors, brakemen and yardmen, shop craft employees, and Camas Prairie shop craft employees, 1947. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 1347. Labor matters data furnished for annual reports, 1950-1966. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 1421. Procedures to be followed by ore carrying railroads in handling grievances arising at Head-of-the-Lakes ore docks, 1950. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 1699. Instructions from Vice President regarding reinstatement of employees reaching age 70, 1956. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 1704. Memorandum regarding number of hours advance notice must be given to non-operating employees if their positions are abolished because of strike, 1955. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 1755. Report by Hayden, Stone & Company covering Northern Pacific data, 1956. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 1887. Transcript of formal investigation of H. J. Kanzler, 1959. | |||||||||||||
General Order No. 27, Wages of Railroad Employees, 1918-1944
| Correspondence and supporting papers for the order establishing a general pay scale for railroad employees, with subsequent supplements and interpretations. | |||||||||||||
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| 136.B.14.11B | 1 | General Order No. 27, May 25, 1918. | |||||||||||
| General File, 1918-1937. | |||||||||||||
| Supplements: | |||||||||||||
| No. 1. Readjustment of salaries of positions created since December, 1915, and of increases in wages through arbitration. | |||||||||||||
| No. 2. Pullman Employees. | |||||||||||||
| No. 3. Railroads affected by G.O. 27. | |||||||||||||
| No. 4. Mechanical Department employees. | |||||||||||||
| No. 5. Wages, hours and conditions of employment of employees in Operating Department, Pullman Company. | |||||||||||||
| No. 6. Duties of Railroad Wage and Working Conditions. | |||||||||||||
| Includes 6A: Amendment to Supplement No. 6. | |||||||||||||
| No. 7. Rates of pay and rules for overtime and working conditions: Clerical forces. | |||||||||||||
| No. 8. Rates of pay and rules for overtime and working conditions: Employees in Maintenance of Way Department. | |||||||||||||
| No. 9. Board of Railroad wages and working conditions to hear matters presented by American Railway Express Company. | |||||||||||||
| No. 10. Telegraphers. | |||||||||||||
| Supplement No. 13 supersedes No. 10. | |||||||||||||
| No. 11. Rates of pay and rules for overtime and working conditions: Agents. | |||||||||||||
| Superseded by Supplement No. 13. | |||||||||||||
| No. 12. Duties to be performed by employees in order to be designated as passenger brakemen or flagmen and receive pay accordingly. | |||||||||||||
| Colored brakemen, and related material. | |||||||||||||
| No. 13. Rates of pay and rules for overtime and working conditions: Telegraphers, telephone operators, agents, agent-telegraphers, towermen, and related material. | |||||||||||||
| Supersedes Supplement Nos. 10 and 11. | |||||||||||||
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| 136.B.14.12F | 2 | No. 14. Rates of pay for employees in Police Department. | |||||||||||
| No. 15. Rates of pay and rules for overtime and working conditions: Engineers and Firemen. | |||||||||||||
| File in J. Wynn's office. | |||||||||||||
| No. 16. Rates of pay and rules for overtime and working conditions: Conductors, Brakemen, Flagmen, Baggagemen, Ticket Collectors, and related material. | |||||||||||||
| File in J. Wynn's office. | |||||||||||||
| No. 17. Rates of pay of sleeping and parlor car conductors. | |||||||||||||
| No. 18. Rates of pay of dining car, buffet, cafe and club car employees. | |||||||||||||
| No. 19. Rates of pay and working conditions of employees in Express service. | |||||||||||||
| No. 20. Interpretations of all wage orders issued by Director General. | |||||||||||||
| No. 21. Rules and working conditions applying to telegraphers, telephone operators, agent-telegraphers, towermen, levermen, and related material. | |||||||||||||
| No. 22. Wages for yard foremen who also act as yardmasters. | |||||||||||||
| Mr. Wynn's files. | |||||||||||||
| No. 23. Payment to employees who are assigned to and operate shop-yard engines. | |||||||||||||
| No. 24. Rates of pay and rules and working conditions: Engineers and Firemen. | |||||||||||||
| Supersedes Supplement No. 15. Mr. Wynn's office file. | |||||||||||||
| No. 25. Rates of pay and rules and working conditions: Conductors and Brakemen. | |||||||||||||
| Supersedes Supplement No. 16. Mr. Wynn's office file. | |||||||||||||
| No. 26. Rates of pay of train porters. | |||||||||||||
| No. 27. Rates of pay of Stewards, dining car, buffet, cafe and club car employees. | |||||||||||||
| Interpretations of General Order 27: | |||||||||||||
| No. 1. Construction of G.O. 27 relating to the bases of pay for Yard Engineers, Yard Firemen, Yard Conductors or foremen, and Yard brakemen or helpers. | |||||||||||||
| No. 2. Bases to be observed in application of rates of pay under G.O. 27. | |||||||||||||
| No. 3. Back pay. | |||||||||||||
| This file also contains correspondence relating to back pay in connection with G.O. 27. | |||||||||||||
| No. 4. Back pay. | |||||||||||||
| No. 5. Increases to be applied to salary paid position and not upon salary of the man occupying position. | |||||||||||||
| No. 6. Pay of station agents receiving less than $30 per month, where the service performed requires only a portion of their time from outside employment or business. | |||||||||||||
| No. 7. Classification of Assistant Passenger Ticket agents temporarily performing service as City passenger agents. | |||||||||||||
| No. 8. Application of G.O. 27 to all persons in the employ of the railroads earning less than $250 per month in December 1915. | |||||||||||||
| No. 9. Overtime earned by employees whose salary is $250 per month or less, which with overtime amounts to more than $250. | |||||||||||||
| No. 10. Women to receive same rate of pay as men when performing men's work. | |||||||||||||
| No. 11. Back pay. | |||||||||||||
| See Interpretations 3 and 4. | |||||||||||||
| No. 12. Back pay. | |||||||||||||
| See Interpretations 3, 4 and 11. | |||||||||||||
| No. 13. Compensation and overtime rules for colored firemen. | |||||||||||||
| See Supplement 12. | |||||||||||||
| No. 14. Back pay. | |||||||||||||
| See Interpretations 3, 4, 11 and 12. | |||||||||||||
| No. 15. Payment of overtime to salaried employees. Basic eight-hour day. | |||||||||||||
| No. 18. Pay of crews on car ferries. | |||||||||||||
| No. 19. Back pay. | |||||||||||||
| See Interpretations 3, 4, 11 and 12. | |||||||||||||
Fair Labor Standards Act Rulings, 1938-1953
| Copies of rulings, interpretations, and related informational circulars issued by the U.S. Department of Labor and the Association of Western Railways in connection with the enforcement of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938; with letters of transmittal and other facilitative correspondence. | |||||||||||||
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| 136.B.13.13B | 1 | General files Nos. 1-6. | |||||||||||
| Missing No. 4. | |||||||||||||
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| 136.B.13.14F | 2 | General files Nos. 7-15. | |||||||||||
| No. 15 parts 1-9. | |||||||||||||
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| 136.B.13.15B | 3 | General files Nos. 15-34. | |||||||||||
| No. 15 parts 10-20. | |||||||||||||
| Ruling files Nos. 1-24. | |||||||||||||
| Completed forms for Fair Labor Standards circulars 1-5. | |||||||||||||
Association of Western Railways Circulars, 1948-1957
| Mimeographed copies of circulars issued by the Association of Western Railways from August 1948 to August 7, 1950; and March 1956 through January 1957. The circulars, which relate to various agreements, awards, and cases, are arranged in chronological order. | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.16.1B | August 1948-July 1949. 20 folders. | ||||||||||||
| 136.B.16.2F | August 1949-August 1950, March 1956-August 1956. 22 folders. | ||||||||||||
| 136.B.16.3B | September 1956-January 1957. 9 folders. | ||||||||||||
Consolidation Files, 1956-1967
| Correspondence, reports, statements, maps and plats, and other background and exhibit materials relating to the merger of the Great Northern, Northern Pacific, Chicago, Burlington, & Quincy, and Spokane, Portland & Seattle railway companies. | |||||||||||||
| Related Material: Merger files are located in the Northern Pacific Valuation Engineer department. | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.16.3B | General files, 1956-1960. | ||||||||||||
| Including file No. 1793 and various parts with accompanying prints and plats. | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.16.4F | Report on economics of consolidation, December 1, 1957. | ||||||||||||
| Correspondence, reports and miscellaneous papers, 1960-1967. | |||||||||||||
| General file No. 2089, American Train Dispatchers Association, 1961-1962. | |||||||||||||
| 136.E.17.5B | Exhibits, statements, maps, reference manual and other miscellaneous oversize items. | ||||||||||||
NEGOTIATIONS AND AGREEMENTS
Agreements and Decisions, 1919-1953
| Mimeographed copies of agreements between the Northern Pacific and the various brotherhoods, Nos. 1-239 dating from 1919 to 1953. Printed copies of some decisions and interpretations of the U. S. Railroad Labor Board, 1920-1951 are found in Box 2. | |||||||||||||
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| 136.B.14.9B | 1 | Agreements, Nos. 1-49. | |||||||||||
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| 136.B.14.10F | 2 | Agreements, Nos. 50-239. | |||||||||||
| Decisions and interpretations. | |||||||||||||
Labor Claim Files, 1920-1944
| Correspondence relating to claims of linemen, shop craft workers, and stationary engineers and firemen regarding rates of pay, overtime, schedules and assignments, rules and regulations, dismissals, and reinstatements. | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.14.6F | Linemen files, 1927-1944: | ||||||||||||
| No. 1. Request for reinstatement of R. F. Pfleger. | |||||||||||||
| No. 2: | |||||||||||||
| All cases subsequent to March 4, 1941, the date that the Electricians' Organization took over Telegraph, Telephone maintenance and construction employees files with the shop craft files. | |||||||||||||
| Injury to Lineman Roden in a motor car collision, 1932. | |||||||||||||
| Includes question raised by Mr. Stevens if this is a schedule position, and for an opinion as to permitting Mr. Roden to return to work. | |||||||||||||
| Modification of Rule 7b of Association of Telegraph and Telephone Maintenance and Construction Employees Schedule, effective January 1, 1934. | |||||||||||||
| See file U-1 for agreement. | |||||||||||||
| Constitution and by-laws, effective January 1, 1923. | |||||||||||||
| Modification of effective December 15, 1933. | |||||||||||||
| See file U-1. | |||||||||||||
| Proposed consolidation of work now performed by signalmen and telegraph and telephone maintenance and construction men. | |||||||||||||
| See General File No. 288. | |||||||||||||
| No. 3. Request of Lineman Paul Bertelson for longer leave of absence than rules provide for in order that he may make a trip to a foreign country. | |||||||||||||
| Request granted. Includes Question regarding retaining Lambert C. Nystrom, lineman, and August Gohring, groundman, in service account failure to pass satisfactory visual examination, Dr. Jennings recommending that these men be taken out of service. | |||||||||||||
| Related Material: See General File No. 7. | |||||||||||||
| No. 4. Question regarding increasing rate of section linemen 25 dollars per month in order to work 9 hours per day, rates for section linemen paid monthly rate based on 365 eight hour days per calendar year. | |||||||||||||
| Decided not to agitate matter. | |||||||||||||
| Shop Craft files, 1922-1941: | |||||||||||||
| Deduction orders to cover Association dues. | |||||||||||||
| No. 1. Camas Prairie, December 5, 1922. | |||||||||||||
| Question a. What is the allowance for carman required to perform service of 1 hour, 30 minutes in advance of regular assignment. | |||||||||||||
| Question b. What is allowance for carman whose assigned hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. who performs service 7 a.m. to 6:20 p.m. and is allowed 20 minutes after 5 p.m. for evening meal. | |||||||||||||
| No. 2. Camas Prairie, December 9, 1922. | |||||||||||||
| Question a. Car repairer performs service watching engines before and after hours of his regular assignment, also during hours of his regular assignment. How should he be paid? | |||||||||||||
| Question b. Engine watchman, whose assignment is from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. goes in duty at 8:30 p.m. and works through 6 a.m., claiming one call or 3 hours in addition to his regular time. How should he be paid? | |||||||||||||
| No. 3. General, February 20, 1923. | |||||||||||||
| What is the rate for machinist, whose regular assignment is 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., who works from 1 p.m. January 1st to 3 a.m. January 2nd? | |||||||||||||
| No. 4. Method of applying fractional rates in computing overtime, February 26, 1923. | |||||||||||||
| No. 5. General, April 26, 1923. | |||||||||||||
| How should mechanic be paid, whose regular starting time is 7 a.m., who starts working at 5 a.m. and works through his regular shift. | |||||||||||||
| No. 6. General, April 28, 1923. | |||||||||||||
| What is overtime rate for machinist assigned 7:30 a.m. to 12 noon and 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., who is required to work overtime from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m., takes meal period 6 to 6:35 p.m., then works until 8:40 p.m. | |||||||||||||
| No. 7. Assignment of John Peterson, Car man from Parkwater, to devote his time to the interests of the Associated Organization of Shop Craft employees. May 19, 1923. | |||||||||||||
| No. 7 1/2. General, Employees punching time clocks. | |||||||||||||
| No. 8. Camas Prairie, August 8, 1923. | |||||||||||||
| When work suspended one hour earlier on Saturday, and 7 hours are actually worked on that day, employees are paid for 7 hours only. | |||||||||||||
| No. 9. Meal hour allowance, December 5, 1923. | |||||||||||||
| No. 10. March 18, 1924. | |||||||||||||
| Boiler washer, Seattle, works 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., his regular hours. Is instructed to go to Everett to do some work there and leaves Seattle 4:30 p.m., arrives Everett 6 p.m., goes to work immediately upon arrival and works until 2 a.m. When does his double time period start? | |||||||||||||
| No. 11. Correct allowance under Rule 5 (e) of Shop Crafts agreement reading "with a minimum allowance of one hour for such service," April 8, 1924. | |||||||||||||
| No. 12. Yellow Division, Rate of pay for driving box packers, May 13, 1924. | |||||||||||||
| No. 13. May 21, 1924. | |||||||||||||
| What is allowance to car repairer at Centralis, regularly assigned 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., called to come on duty 5 a.m. to go to Winlock to make repairs to a bad order car. Was occupied from 5 a.m. to 5:40 a.m. getting material ready, from 5:40 to 7:20 a.m. traveling, and from 7:20 to 8 a.m. making repairs to the car. | |||||||||||||
| No. 14. Case of Chas. F. Cummins, car repairer at Parkwater, June 5, 1924. | |||||||||||||
| No. 15. Case of E. F. Warren, car man at Parkwater. June 5, 1924. | |||||||||||||
| Complaining account being laid off in reduction of force. | |||||||||||||
| No. 16. Montana Division, Cleaning and repairing of coal cars at Colstrip by Foley Bros., January 26, 1925. | |||||||||||||
| No. 17. Reduction of shop forces from 6 to 5 1/2 days per week, April 1, 1925. | |||||||||||||
| No. 18. Ruling of General Mechanical Superintendent on application of Rule 33 (d) seniority of apprentice as a mechanic, April 4, 1925. | |||||||||||||
| No. 19. General, April 5, 1925. | |||||||||||||
| Basis upon which to arrive at the daily rate of an employee who is required to temporarily take the place of a foreman. | |||||||||||||
| No. 20. South Tacoma shops, April 14, 1925. | |||||||||||||
| Seniority status of Edward Ernest Richards, boiler maker apprentice. | |||||||||||||
| No. 21. Ruling of General Mechanical Superintendent on the seniority status of a car man who has been set back to a car man helper, April 16, 1925. | |||||||||||||
| No. 22. Camas Prairie, May 4, 1925. | |||||||||||||
| Allowance to be made shop craft employees for time worked on days shops are closed temporarily account reduction in force. | |||||||||||||
| No. 23. Camas Prairie, May 9, 1925. | |||||||||||||
| Allowance to be made to mechanics who worked 1 hour, 50 minutes and 6 hours, 15 minutes on day when regular shop forces were not working account shops being closed. | |||||||||||||
| No. 24. Allowance for two car repairers who were sent out on silk trains from Parkwater, deducting the time that they were relieved from service at Paradise. | |||||||||||||
| No. 25. Tacoma Division, June 30, 1925. | |||||||||||||
| Question of dismissing employee who entered service at Centralia under assumed name. | |||||||||||||
| No. 26. Idaho Division, June 8, 1925. | |||||||||||||
| Request for reinstatement of A. Petty, car inspector, who was discharged from the service for appropriating company property. | |||||||||||||
| No. 27. Fargo Division, July 15, 1925. | |||||||||||||
| Rate of pay of car man starting work prior to midnight and working over a portion of his hours of assignment on Sundays, his regular tour of duty commencing at 11 p.m. Saturday. | |||||||||||||
| No. 28. Decision No. 1 of Joint System Board of Adjustment, September 5, 1925. | |||||||||||||
| Case of James Aigner, employed as car inspector at Parkwater, who was displaced by former Assistant Foreman Rath who was set back to position as mechanic on account of a reduction of supervision at that point. | |||||||||||||
| No. 29. Decision No. 2 of Joint System Board of Adjustment, September 9, 1925. | |||||||||||||
| Interpretation of Rule 22 (g) with reference to seniority of employee laid off account reduction in force. | |||||||||||||
| No. 30. Decision No. 3 of Joint System Board of Adjustment, September 10, 1925. | |||||||||||||
| Case of thermit welder engaged part of his time doing thermit welding, should he be regularly assigned and paid continuously the rate of pay applying to this class of work. | |||||||||||||
| No. 31. Decision No. 4 of Joint System Board of Adjustment, September 14, 1925. | |||||||||||||
| Claim of H. A. Green, regularly assigned wrecker engineer, displaced by Browning Crane Operator, and rate established below the rate of wrecker engineer. | |||||||||||||
| No. 32. Decision No. 5 of Joint System Board of Adjustment, September 14, 1925. | |||||||||||||
| Claim for additional compensation account reduction in rate of pay. | |||||||||||||
| No. 33. Decision No. 7 of Joint System Board of Adjustment, September 17, 1925. | |||||||||||||
| Covering leave of absence of machinist who asked for ninety days leave and roundhouse foreman gave him an undefinite leave, he not returning to service until a year had expired. | |||||||||||||
| No. 34. Decision No. 8 of Joint System Board of Adjustment, September 19, 1925. | |||||||||||||
| Covering claim that apprentices who have been assigned to differential or preferred positions should be removed and given opportunity to learn the trade. | |||||||||||||
| No. 35. Decision No. 6 of Joint System Board of Adjustment, September 15, 1925. | |||||||||||||
| Covering seniority status of train electricians and shop electricians at Como shops. | |||||||||||||
| No. 36. Mechanics on Spokane, Portland & Seattle railway following Northern Pacific agreement. October 7, 1925. | |||||||||||||
| No. 37. Rocky Mountain Division, October 19, 1925. | |||||||||||||
| Claim of W. C. Irvin, laborer Helena roundhouse, for painters' rate account being required to paint cylinders. | |||||||||||||
| No. 38. Ruling of General Mechanical Superintendent covering allowance of time to blacksmith helpers for building fires, December 12, 1925. | |||||||||||||
| No. 39. Lake Superior Division, February 23, 1926. | |||||||||||||
| Complaint of J. M. Wells, machinist at Brainerd Shops, account of not being promoted to the position of Material Supervisor. Also complaint from Mr. Wells account not being promoted to position of Machine Shop Foreman at Brainerd. | |||||||||||||
| No. 40. General, March 2, 1926. | |||||||||||||
| Question of proper application of rates for overtime, Sunday and Holiday service. | |||||||||||||
| No. 41. Seattle Division, May 4, 1926. | |||||||||||||
| Ruling of General Mechanical Superintendent on the question of rate of pay for two car men employed on passenger refrigerator car repair work at Seattle. | |||||||||||||
| No. 42. Rocky Mountain Division, June 30, 1926. | |||||||||||||
| Request for removal of disabilities of boilermaker A. Munn. | |||||||||||||
| No. 43. Lake Superior Division, July 8, 1926. | |||||||||||||
| Complaint of Peter Peterson, M. J. Cochran, Brainerd Shops, that they have not been given an opportunity to complete their apprenticeship. | |||||||||||||
| No. 44. Camas Prairie, July 9, 1926. | |||||||||||||
| Question of allowance of expenses to car man sent from Lewiston to Reubens, where he worked fourteen days on relief work. | |||||||||||||
| No. 45. Montana Division, July 15, 1926. | |||||||||||||
| Ruling of General Mechanical Superintendent on payment for triple valve test rack work at Butte. | |||||||||||||
| No. 46. General, July 15, 1926. | |||||||||||||
| Ruling of General Mechanical Superintendent on allowance to car man working from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday afternoon at point where Car Department were then working on a 5 1/2 day per week working basis. | |||||||||||||
| No. 47. Proper allowance to wrecking engineer and carman helper sent out on road with wrecking crane, July 27, 1926. | |||||||||||||
| No. 48. Allowance to boilermaker sent from Auburn to Sedro Woolley to make repairs to engine, traveling 6 a.m. to 12 noon, taking 1 hour for lunch, working from 1 p.m. to 4 a.m. on locomotive. | |||||||||||||
| No. 49. Seniority of Donald McLean, blacksmith at Pasco, temporarily transferred from South Tacoma. | |||||||||||||
| No. 50. September 9, 1926. | |||||||||||||
| In computing the allowance on apprenticeship period the actual hours only should be computed and overtime on Sundays and holidays on straight time basis. | |||||||||||||
| No. 51. Proper allowance to Car Department laborer at Missoula called to supply trains on Sunday. | |||||||||||||
| No. 52. Various grievances presented by Victor Lindstrom at South Tacoma. | |||||||||||||
| No. 53. Allowance for car man called out for service outside of regular working hours. | |||||||||||||
| No. 54. Machinist helper at Staples acting as a driving box packer on Sundays. | |||||||||||||
| No. 55. Allowance under Rule 8 to employees at Dickinson who are no longer required to punch the time clock. | |||||||||||||
| No. 56. Car inspectors, repairmen, supplymen, etc. not required to check in and out or make service cards on their own time, effective April 1, 1927. | |||||||||||||
| No. 57. Seniority rosters for employees covered by Shop Crafts Agreement. | |||||||||||||
| No. 58. Resolution passed by boilermakers at South Tacoma Shops dissolving an independent organization recently formed, April 7, 1927. | |||||||||||||
| No. 59. Seniority of John Larson, Car repairer, Tacoma, as affecting his pension privileges. | |||||||||||||
| No. 59 1/2. General Instructions, Mr. Zurght, allowance to employees performing road service, June 1, 1927. | |||||||||||||
| No. 60. Allowance to wiper assigned 7:30 a.m. to 12 noon, and 1 to 4:30 p.m., on certain date works as wiper 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. and as machinist helper 9 a.m. to 12 and 1 to 5 p.m., working 30 minutes overtime. | |||||||||||||
| Rate paid coach cleaner at South Bend. See Stationary Engineers file No. 7. | |||||||||||||
| No. 61. Should deduction for meal period be made from allowance to wrecking foreman and carman while working with Tacoma wrecker. | |||||||||||||
| No. 62. Allowance to Machinist at Parkwater sent away from his home terminal to perform work. | |||||||||||||
| No. 63. Proper allowance for services performed on Saturday by carman when his assigned hours are from 7:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. on Saturdays, and from 7:30 a.m. to 12 noon and 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. balance of the week, who works until 12:30 p.m. on Saturday. | |||||||||||||
| No. 64. Deduction for meal period of employees at away from home terminal. | |||||||||||||
| No. 65. Status of employee over 45 years of age, out of service on suspended list for more than a year, as affecting his seniority and pension rights. | |||||||||||||
| No. 66. Carrying shop craft employees on the payroll of the department in which they are regularly employed. | |||||||||||||
| No. 67. Allowance to carman at Mandan a/c walking from passenger station where he had been working. | |||||||||||||
| Using laborers in supplying passenger trains. | |||||||||||||
| No. 68. Time allowance when transferring special apprentice from one shop to another in course of training. | |||||||||||||
| No. 69. Relieving Car Foreman at Lewiston of clerical work by using a car repairer. | |||||||||||||
| No. 70. Allowance to employees at Everett and Lester of bonus for punching clock and making out time slips under Rule 8. | |||||||||||||
| No. 71. Coach cleaner called on Sunday or holiday to assist in cleaning or caring for passenger train cars to be paid under Rule 76. | |||||||||||||
| No. 72. Car repairer Knudson, Dakota Division., not entitled to bonus time for checking in and out while away from Jamestown engaged in inspecting cars at outlying points. | |||||||||||||
| No. 73. January 24, 1928. | |||||||||||||
| December 15, Joint System Board of Adjustment: Payment of time to man sent out on line to perform service, if relieved from duty 5 hours or more and subsequent correspondence. | |||||||||||||
| December 16, Reductions of force: seniority. | |||||||||||||
| December 17, Meals away from headquarters. | |||||||||||||
| December 18, Discipline of L. F. Kerpies in connection with repairs to engine 2233 at Missoula. | |||||||||||||
| No. 74. Payment to employee who commences work more than one hour and 30 minutes in advance of his regular starting time. | |||||||||||||
| No. 75. Rate of pay of mill machinist J. Garrison at Como. | |||||||||||||
| No. 76. Allowance to coach cleaners at Spokane called after regular work period to supply Shriners' Special. | |||||||||||||
| Traveling Time-keeper report Idaho Division May 1926, No. 6. | |||||||||||||
| No. 77. Allowance to J. T. Gibbs, boilermaker welder, called to repair ditcher at Hinckley, claiming time for waiting for train from 8 p.m. to 2:47 a.m. | |||||||||||||
| No. 78. When helper has served 306 days, change will be made in rate from the less than one year to the one or more year rate. | |||||||||||||
| No. 79. Assistant Stationary Engineer at Como paid punitive rates for overtime after eight hours of service. | |||||||||||||
| No. 80. Discipline assessed Machinist L. N. Clark, Glendive, for engine failure at Colstrip, discipline removed and paid time lost. | |||||||||||||
| No. 81. Rate of pay for wrecking foreman on Camas Prairie wrecking crane. | |||||||||||||
| No. 82. Allowance to two carmen at Spokane attending investigation in Trainmaster's office. | |||||||||||||
| No. 83. Proper allowance to carman for service performed on Saturday until 12:30 p.m. assigned hours 7:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., and to 6 members of the Car Dept. not assigned to Saturday afternoon called at 2:30 p.m. and released at 4 p.m. in connection with wrecker service. | |||||||||||||
| No. 84. Under Rule 5 (a) double time starts after the sixteenth hour of service, April 18, 1929. | |||||||||||||
| No. 85. Request that electricians be assigned as electrician-baggagemen on Trains 1 and 2. | |||||||||||||
| No. 86. Rate of pay of wheel lathe operator at Missoula Car Shop. | |||||||||||||
| No. 87. Rate of pay of leading mill machinist at Missoula. | |||||||||||||
| No. 88. Assignment of car inspector at Auburn to different hours on Saturday than other days in the week, in order to take care of Train 602. | |||||||||||||
| No. 89. Status of apprentice who has finished his apprenticeship, leaves the service and is again reemployed within a specified time. | |||||||||||||
| No. 90. Proper payment to car inspectors at Spokane for service rendered in being held for silk train after regular assignment. | |||||||||||||
| No. 91. Decision No. 9, Apprenticeship rate to Otto Beck, December 29, 1926. | |||||||||||||
| No. 92. Decision No. 10, Apprenticeship rate to E. Bartholomew, December 30, 1926. | |||||||||||||
| No. 93. Decision No. 11, Reduction of forces, December 31, 1926. | |||||||||||||
| No. 94. Decision No. 12, Reinstatement Boilermaker H. J. Carrigan, January 3, 1927. | |||||||||||||
| No. 95. Case of machinist Miller, called at Missoula to set a driving tire on engine at Paradise, question whether he should be paid for time from 9 p.m., (time called) or 10 p.m., time engine left roundhouse. | |||||||||||||
| No. 96. Allowance to carman working at Mandan and accompanying No. 3 to Glendive, waiting at Glendive and returning to Mandan on No. 6. | |||||||||||||
| No. 97. Payment to coach cleaner assigned between Fargo and Jamestown, obliged to wait at Jamestown account trains being late, resulting in spread of his day's service beyond the 8 hour period. | |||||||||||||
| No. 98. Claim of Brown and Jacobson, carmen at Missoula sent to Westfall to make emergency repairs and later went to Rivulet and waited for train to return to Missoula, for time waiting at Rivulet. | |||||||||||||
| No. 99. Allowance to welder at Brainerd, who worked 1 hour, 30 minutes on Saturday while the shops were closed. | |||||||||||||
| No. 100. Allowance to carman going from Glendive to Billings who lays over at Billings between the arrival of train No. 3 and departure of train No. 4. | |||||||||||||
| No. 101. Earl Ryden, car man at Duluth, whose return to duty is questionable account his being afflicted with a form of insanity. | |||||||||||||
| No. 102. Rate to be paid carman, assigned five days per week, called on Saturday to supply passenger trains. | |||||||||||||
| Stationary Engineers and Firemen's Schedule Rulings, 1920-1929: | |||||||||||||
| No. 1. Pay and working conditions of Stationary Engineers at Tacoma Union Station. | |||||||||||||
| No. 2. Sunday and holiday service. | |||||||||||||
| No. 3. Manner of paying engine watchmen employed with ditcher. | |||||||||||||
| No. 4. Overtime to employees paid on a monthly basis to cover all service rendered. | |||||||||||||
| No. 5. Claim of Henry Duty, engine watchman at Cheney, for time in addition to his regular allowance account required to watch engines longer than his assigned hours. | |||||||||||||
| No. 6. Claim of W. T. Reynolds, engine watchman at Pullman, required to help coal dock laborer coal engines outside of his regular tour of duty. | |||||||||||||
| No. 7. Rate paid engine watchman at Hoquiam and coach cleaner at South Bend. | |||||||||||||
| No. 8. Steamshovel watchmen, pro rata and punitive rates. | |||||||||||||
| No. 9. Shop laborer called in emergency to work in place of coach cleaner taken sick. | |||||||||||||
| Works from 4 p.m. to midnight (his regular shift being 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.). How should he be paid? | |||||||||||||
| No. 10. Assigning Mrs. Hopper, Wiper at Seattle Roundhouse, to position of caller. | |||||||||||||
| Rate for engine watchmen on Camas Prairie on work train. M. W. file No. 10. | |||||||||||||
| No. 11. Allowance to engine watchmen for work in advance of regular shift. | |||||||||||||
| Allowance to engine watchmen for work beyond the period of his regular shift (in place of his brother) both cases at Everett. | |||||||||||||
| 137.K.7.1B | Clerks Claim Dockets, 1933: | ||||||||||||
| Each docket contains a single claim, whether by an individual or a group of co-workers, against the Northern Pacific charging it with a violation of labor agreements or general NP employee work rules. Each file contains a joint statement of facts prepared by the NP System Board of Adjustment which adjudicated each claim. The System Board of Adjustment was composed of 2 railway appointees and 2 appointees of the NP Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, Freight Hanglers, Express and Station Employees. Each file also contains briefs of the railway and brotherhood positions on the claim, a legal opinion prepared for the System Board, the Board's decision, and the decision of the National Railroad Adjustment Board in those cases where the System Board could not reach a decision. These National Board decisions are all dated 1935. | |||||||||||||
| Docket Nos. 1-8. | |||||||||||||
| Includes copy of 1930 agreement between Northern Pacific and clerks establishing System of Board of Adjustment. | |||||||||||||
| Docket Nos. 9-15. | |||||||||||||
| Docket Nos. 16-20. | |||||||||||||
Schedule Negotiations, 1908-1922
| Correspondence, reports, and miscellaneous papers relating to negotiations over clerks' schedules (1920-1922), maintenance of way schedules (1908-1922), and salary increases for subordinate officials (1918-1922). | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.17.16F | Clerk's schedule negotiations, 1920-1922. | ||||||||||||
| Index precedes files. | |||||||||||||
| Maintenance of Way schedule negotiations prior to December 16, 1919, effective date of national agreement with Maintenance of Way employees, 1908-1922. | |||||||||||||
| Circular No. 28, Subordinate officials, salary increases, 1918-1922. | |||||||||||||
| Index precedes files. | |||||||||||||
Engineer and Firemen Negotiating Files, 1918-1949
| Correspondence, circulars, reports, notices, and background information regarding negotiations on various agreements, rates of pay, rule changes, and working conditions. | |||||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.16.5B | 1 | File Nos. 47-69. Correspondence, circulars, reports, and related records of negotiations on various agreements, decisions, for rates of pay, rule changes, and working conditions, 1918-1947. | |||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.16.6F | 2 | File Nos. 77-1 to 77-31. Notices from train and engine service employees for changes in rates of pay and rules and working conditions, July 24, 1945. | |||||||||||
| File Nos. 78-1 to 78-4. Notice from conductors and firemen covering their request for certain changes in schedule rules covering rates of pay, May 3, 1946. | |||||||||||||
| File Nos. 81-1 to 81-5. Files of information requested by the Association of Western Railways for use in connection with Engineers' request of April 26, 1945 for employment of an additional engineer on diesel-electric locomotives; and firemen's request of May 1, 1947 for change of Western Diesel Agreement. AWR circulars 458-511, 1949. | |||||||||||||
| Index precedes files. | |||||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.16.7B | 3 | File Nos. 81-6 to 81-23. | |||||||||||
| Continuation of series in Box 2. | |||||||||||||
| File Nos. 85 to 85-51. Operating rules change request, 1947. | |||||||||||||
| Index precedes files. | |||||||||||||
Engineers' Negotiating Files, 1939-1943
| Correspondence, memorandums, compilations of background data, Association of Western Railways circulars, and related materials regarding negotiations with engineers, firemen, and maintenance personnel over pay scales and staffing assignments for diesel locomotives; titled "engineers' diesel request of March 24, 1939," file no. 74. Index precedes files in Box 1. | |||||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.17.14F | 1 | File Nos. 74 to 74-29. | |||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.17.15B | 2 | File Nos. 74-30 to 74-43. | |||||||||||
Non-Operating Employee Negotiating Files, 1936-1954
| Correspondence, mimeographed circulars and statements, agreements, memoranda, and similar documents regarding negotiations with various labor unions over wages, benefits, overtime provisions, working conditions and rules, work schedules, and related matters. Files 1-36 are missing. | |||||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.16.8F | 1 | File Nos. 37-57. | |||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.16.9B | 2 | File Nos. 58-79. | |||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.16.10F | 3 | File Nos. 80-92. | |||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.16.11B | 4 | File Nos. 93-105/40. | |||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.16.12F | 5 | File Nos. 105/41-105/61. | |||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.16.13B | 6 | File Nos. 106-123. | |||||||||||
Clerks Agreement File, June 1, 1946
| 136.B.15.16F | Proposals, tentative rules, a previous agreement (1922), minutes of conferences, and miscellaneous papers related to the clerks agreement, June 1, 1946. 6 folders. | ||||||||||||
Miscellaneous Agreements, 1947-1955
| 136.B.17.15B | Mimeographed copies of miscellaneous agreements with various labor unions. 3 folders. | ||||||||||||
Arbitration File, Conductors and Trainmen v Northern Pacific
Railway Company, 1910-1915
| 136.B.15.13B | Correspondence and related papers of the arbitration proceedings between the Northern Pacific and its conductors and trainmen relating to pay for terminal switching. | ||||||||||||
Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway Schedule Files, 1910-1963
| Correspondence and memoranda regarding employees' claims for overtime pay and other compensation related to changes in work schedules, submitted by the Spokane, Portland & Seattle railway to the assistants to the vice presidents of the Northern Pacific and the Great Northern. | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.13.5B | Nos. 1-131. Conductors and Trainmen. | ||||||||||||
| Nos. 1-99. Enginemen. | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.13.6F | Nos. 1-26. Yardmen. | ||||||||||||
| Nos. 1-8. Telegraphers. | |||||||||||||
| Nos. 1-15. Maintenance of Way. | |||||||||||||
| Nos. 1-20. Clerks. | |||||||||||||
| Nos. 1-34. Shopmen. | |||||||||||||
| Nos. 1-4. Yardmasters. | |||||||||||||
| Nos. 1-3. Dispatchers. | |||||||||||||
| Nos. 1-3. Special Agents. | |||||||||||||
| Nos. 1-3. Dining Car Employees. | |||||||||||||
| No. 1. Miscellaneous. | |||||||||||||
| Schedules and agreements, 1910-1956. | |||||||||||||
Willapa Harbor Logging Railroad Company Case, 1931-1938
| Contract, correspondence, and maps regarding negotiations with the Willapa Logging Railroad Company (affiliate of Weyerhaeuser Timber Company) to use the Northern Pacific's South Bend Branch (Willapa Harbor line) between Pluvius and Willapa, Washington, utilizing its own men and equipment; and correspondence and exhibits (mimeographed statements) regarding a case filed by Northern Pacific employee unions with the National Railroad Adjustment Board [NRAB] to obtain reimbursement for compensation lost as a result of not being assigned to this service. | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.14.12F | Correspondence and drafts of exhibits of the Willapa Harbor Logging Railway Company case relating to the use of the South Bend Branch, 1931-1938. 10 folders. | ||||||||||||
Minnesota and International Railway Schedule Files, 1935-1941
| Correspondence regarding employees' claims for overtime pay and other compensation as a result of changes in work schedules and assignments, submitted by Minnesota and International [M&I] employees to or through the Northern Pacific personnel offices. | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.13.6F | Nos. 1-22. Conductor and Trainmen. | ||||||||||||
| Nos. 1-7. Enginemen. | |||||||||||||
| Nos. 1-2. Clerks. | |||||||||||||
| No. 1. Maintenance of Way. | |||||||||||||
| No. 1. Shopmen. | |||||||||||||
15 Percent Wage Reduction Files, 1938
| Notices, forms, reports, correspondence, and miscellany regarding a fifteen percent reduction in rates of pay for employees of Northern Pacific and its subsidiaries. Includes statements and date furnished to the Association of Western Railways regarding current rates of pay, mileage limitations, and numbers of locomotives in use; and transcripts of the proceedings of the President's Emergency Board regarding the reduction, September 30-October 17, 1938. | |||||||||||||
| Includes carrier's notices of May 12, 1938, for a reduction of present rates of compensation, including arbitraries, special allowances and all other forms of money payments, fifteen percent, effective July 1, 1938; also notice of September 15, 1938, that reductions would be made October 1, 1938. Carrier's notice of November 10, 1938, withdrawing notices for reduction. | |||||||||||||
| Arranged numerically by file subdivision. | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.14.13B | Northern Pacific Railway Company: | ||||||||||||
| File No. 72. General. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 72-1. Engineers, Conductors, Firemen, Trainmen. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 72-2. Dining Car Stewards. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 72-3. Brotherhood of Railway Clerks. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 72-4. Order of Railroad Telegraphers. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 72-5. Maintenance of Way Employees. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 72-6. Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 72-7. Shop Crafts and Firemen and Oilers. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 72-8. Association of Mechanical Supervisors. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 72-9. Association of Telegraph and Telephone Maintenance and Construction Employees. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 72-10. Northern Pacific Railway Dining Car Cooks. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 72-11. Northern Pacific Waiters and Porters Mutual Protective Association. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 72-12. Railroad Yardmasters of America. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 72-13. American Train Dispatchers Association. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 72-14. Dock Employees Represented by International Longshoremen's Association [ILA]. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 72-15. Dock Employees Represented by Clerk's Organization. | |||||||||||||
| Camas Prairie Railroad Company: | |||||||||||||
| File No. 72-16. Engineers, Firemen, Conductors, Trainmen. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 72-17. Brotherhood of Railway Clerks. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 72-18. Maintenance of Way Employees. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 72-19. Order of Railroad Telegraphers. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 72-20. Shop Crafts and Firemen and Oilers. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 72-21. American Train Dispatchers Association. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 72-22. Duluth Union Depot & Transfer Company: Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 72-23. Lake Superior Terminal & Transfer Company: Firemen and Enginemen, Yardmen, Machinists, Boilermakers, Blacksmiths, Carmen. | |||||||||||||
| Minnesota and International Railway [M&I] and Big Fork and International Falls Railway [BF&IF]: | |||||||||||||
| File No. 72-24. Engineers, Firemen, Conductors, Trainmen. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 72-25. Maintenance of Way Employees. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 72-26. Order of Railroad Telegraphers. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 72-27. King Street Terminal Company: All Classes of Employees. | |||||||||||||
| Reduction of present rates of compensation, including arbitraries, special allowances and all other forms of money payments, fifteen percent, effective July 1, 1938. Handled by Great Northern Railway during the year 1938. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 72-28. Minnesota Transfer Railway: All Classes of Employees. | |||||||||||||
| Reduction of present rates of compensation, including arbitraries, special allowances, and all other forms of money payments, fifteen percent, effective July 1, 1938. Handled by Mr. Christoffer during the year 1938. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 72-29. Northern Pacific Terminal Company of Oregon: All Classes of Employees. | |||||||||||||
| Reduction of present rates of compensation, including arbitraries, special allowances, and all other forms of money payments, fifteen percent, effective July 1, 1938. Handled by Southern Pacific and Union Pacific during the year 1938. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 72-30. Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway Company: All Classes of Employees. | |||||||||||||
| Reduction of present rates of compensation, including arbitraries, special allowances, and all other forms of money payments, fifteen percent, effective July 1, 1938. Handled by Great Northern during the year 1938. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 72-31. St. Paul Union Depot Company: All Classes of Employees. | |||||||||||||
| Reduction of present rates of compensation, including arbitraries, special allowances, and all other forms of money payments, fifteen percent, effective July 1, 1938. Handled by Soo Line during the year 1938. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 72-32. Western Weighing and Inspection Bureau: All Classes of Employees. | |||||||||||||
| Reduction of present rates of compensation, including arbitraries, special allowances, and all other forms of money payments, fifteen percent, effective July 1, 1938. Notices not served on employees of Associations of Bureaus under the jurisdiction of the Western Association of Railway Executives. | |||||||||||||
| Counter Proposals: | |||||||||||||
| File No. 72-33. American Train Dispatchers: Northern Pacific. | |||||||||||||
| Request of May 18, 1938, for a ten percent increase and changes in certain schedule rules. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 72-34. Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen: Northern Pacific. | |||||||||||||
| Request of May 13, 1938, for an eight cent per hour increase to offset differential in rates of pay between eastern and western signal department employees. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 72-35. American Train Dispatchers: Camas Prairie Railroad. | |||||||||||||
| Request of May 18, 1938, for a ten percent increase and changes in certain schedule rules. | |||||||||||||
| Statements and Data Furnished Association of Western Railways: | |||||||||||||
| File No. 72-36. Lake Superior Terminal & Transfer Company [LST&T] Railway. | |||||||||||||
| Statement as requested in Special Circular of June 14, 1938, showing current rates of pay per day for conductors, trainmen, yardmen, engineers, firemen and hostlers in effect June 1, 1938. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 72-37. Questionnaire. | |||||||||||||
| Dated August 12, 1938, from Chairman Enochs requesting data as to operations, employees and their rates of pay and related materials for five intercity for hire trucking companies and two interstate for hire bus companies doing business in Northern Pacific territory. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 72-38. Forms NRAB 1-5. | |||||||||||||
| Mr. Schneider's Circular No. 116-66 of July 4, 1938, together with forms NRAB-1, -2, -3, and -4 showing cost of awards rendered by the First, Second, Third and Fourth Divisions of the N.R.A.B. on Northern Pacific and Camas Prairie cases; also forms NRAB-5 showing cost to the Northern Pacific of applying awards issued by the NRAB covering cases arising on other railroads that have been made effective on the Northern Pacific. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 72-39. Forms R-1 and R-2. | |||||||||||||
| Forms R-1 and R-2 showing the number of employees and rates of pay as of March 1, 1938, for the Northern Pacific and Big Fork & International Falls Railways, as requested by Mr. Schneider in Circular No. 198-3. | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.14.14F | File No. 72-40. Forms R-1 and R-2. | ||||||||||||
| Forms R-1 and R-2 showing the number of employees and rates of pay as of March 1, 1938, for the Duluth Union Depot & Transfer Company, as requested by Mr. Schneider in his Circular No. 198-3. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 72-41. Forms R-1 and R-2. | |||||||||||||
| Forms R-1 and R-2 showing the number of employees and rates of pay as of March 1, 1938, for the Lake Superior Terminal & Transfer Company, as requested by Mr. Schneider in his Circular No. 198-3. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 72-42. Forms R-1 and R-2. | |||||||||||||
| Forms R-1 and R-2 showing the number of employees and rates of pay as of March 1, 1938, for the M&I and BF&IF Railways, as requested by Mr. Schneider in his Circular 198-3. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 72-43. Rates of Pay. | |||||||||||||
| Statements showing current rates of pay for conductors, trainmen, yardmen, engineers, firemen and hostlers, on the Northern Pacific and M&I Railways, as requested by Mr. Schneider in his Circular No. 198-4 on June 14, 1938. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 72-44. Form ML-1. | |||||||||||||
| Form ML-1(1938) showing mileage limitations (schedule or temporary) actually in effect for employees in engine, train and yard service as of June 15, 1938, covering the Northern Pacific Railway, as requested by Mr. Schneider in his Circular No. 198-5 of June 22, 1938. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 72-45. Form ML-1. | |||||||||||||
| Form ML-1(1938) showing mileage limitations (schedule or temporary) actually in effect for employees in engine, train and yard service as of June 15, 1938, covering the Lake Superior Terminal & Transfer Company, as requested by Mr. Schneider in his Circular No. 198-5 of June 22, 1938. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 72-46. Form ML-1. | |||||||||||||
| Form ML-1(1938) showing mileage limitations (schedule or temporary) actually in effect for employees in engine, train and yard service as of June 15, 1938, covering the M&I and BF&IF Railways, as requested by Mr. Schneider in his Circular No. 198-5 of June 22, 1938. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 72-47. Form LW-1. | |||||||||||||
| Form LW-1(1938) covering the Northern Pacific Railway showing the number of steam, electric and diesel locomotives in the respective ranges of weights on drivers in use in passenger, through freight, local freight and yard service as of June 15, 1938, as requested by Mr. Schneider in his Circular No. 198-6 of June 22, 1938. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 72-48. Form LW-1. | |||||||||||||
| Form LW-1(1938) covering the Duluth Union Depot & Transfer Company showing the number of steam, electric and diesel locomotives in the respective ranges of weights on drivers in use in passenger, through freight, local freight and yard service as of June 15, 1938, as requested by Mr. Schneider in his Circular No. 198-6 of June 22, 1938. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 72-49. Form LW-1. | |||||||||||||
| Form LW-1(1938) covering the LST&T Company showing the number of steam, electric and diesel locomotives in the respective ranges of weights on drivers in use in passenger, through freight, local freight and yard service as of June 15, 1938, as requested by Mr. Schneider in his Circular No. 198-6 of June 22, 1938. | |||||||||||||
| File No. 72-50. Form LW-1. | |||||||||||||
| Form LW-1(1938) covering the M&I and BF&IF Railways, showing the number of steam, electric and diesel locomotives in the respective ranges of weights on drivers in use in passenger, through freight, local freight and yard service as of June 15, 1938, as requested by Mr. Schneider in his Circular No. 198-6 of June 22, 1938. | |||||||||||||
| Brief on behalf of the carriers. | |||||||||||||
| Volumes 1-15, September 30, 1938-October 17, 1938. | |||||||||||||
| Covering transcripts of proceedings of the Emergency Board. | |||||||||||||
Lake Superior Terminal & Transfer Railway Company Schedule
Files, 1938-1960
| Correspondence, reports, and supporting documentation regarding employees' claims and company policies in connection with changes in work schedules, work assignments, and working conditions, submitted by LST&T employees to or through the NP personnel offices. | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.14.6F | Folder 1, General files, 1940-1950. | ||||||||||||
| Folder 2, Clerks 1-4, 1943-1960. | |||||||||||||
| Folder 3, Yardmen 1-4, 1938-1955. | |||||||||||||
| Folder 4, Yardmen 5-6. | |||||||||||||
| Folder 5, Yardmen 7-13. | |||||||||||||
| Folder 6, Yardmen 14-20. | |||||||||||||
| Folder 7, Yardmen 21-27. | |||||||||||||
| Folder 8, Yardmen 28-31. | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.14.7B | Folder 9, Yardmen 32, 1938-1955. | ||||||||||||
| Folder 10, Yardmen 33-34. | |||||||||||||
| Folder 11, Yardmen 35. | |||||||||||||
| Folder 12, Yardmen 35-36. | |||||||||||||
| Folder 13, Enginemen 1-6, 1938-1950. | |||||||||||||
| Folder 14, Shopmen 1-2, and Yardmasters 1-2, 1938-1950 and 1951-1952. | |||||||||||||
Duluth Union Depot & Transfer Company Schedule Files, 1938-1961
| Correspondence regarding employees' claims for overtime pay and other compensation as a result of changes in work schedules and assignments, submitted by Duluth Union Depot employees to or through the NP personnel offices. | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.13.6F | Claims relating to schedules, 1938-1961. | ||||||||||||
| Nos. 1-26. Clerks. | |||||||||||||
Ore Dock Foreman and Laborers Briefs Before the Interstate
Commerce Commission, 1939
| Three briefs requesting the U.S. Interstate Commerce Commission [ICC] to amend or interpret its orders defining work as that of employee or subordinate official, to include work of ore dock foreman and laborers employed by Addison Miller at Superior Ore Docks. | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.15.13B | August 8-August 15, 1939. | ||||||||||||
St. Paul Union Depot Claim, 1940-1959
| Correspondence and legal and supporting papers regarding a claim by the Switchmen's Union of North America for compensation lost when a yard crew at the St. Paul Union Depot was terminated and its work was performed instead by employees of the tenant railroads. The case was prepared for the National Railroad Adjustment Board (docket 9053) on October 23, 1959, but was never submitted. The supporting papers date from 1940-1959. | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.13.12F | 1940-1950. 5 folders. | ||||||||||||
RAILWAY MEDIATION AND ARBITRATION BOARDS
Biographical Sketches of Members of Emergency and Arbitration
Boards, 1949
| 136.B.15.13B | Mimeographed copy of the biographical sketches of members of the Emergency and Arbitration boards, January 1, 1949. | ||||||||||||
Arbitration Board Proceedings, 1914-1960
| Printed and mimeographed transcripts of proceedings of various wage, benefits, and rules cases. | |||||||||||||
| Arranged chronologically by year of case. | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.15.7B | Volumes 1-3, Locomotive engineers, firemen and enginemen and the Western railroads, 1914-1915. | ||||||||||||
| 136.B.15.8F | Volumes 4-9, Locomotive engineers, firemen and enginemen and the Western railroads, 1914-1915. | ||||||||||||
| 136.B.15.9B | Switchmen's Union of North America and designated railroads, 1916. 2 volumes. | ||||||||||||
| Railroad telegraphers and Northern Pacific Railway Company, 1927. 5 volumes and exhibits. | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.15.10F | Conductors and trainmen and certain Western railroads, 1927. 38 volumes. | ||||||||||||
| Includes carriers brief and official papers. | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.15.11B | Firemen and enginemen and certain Western railroads, 1927. 31 volumes. | ||||||||||||
| 136.B.15.10F | Firemen and enginemen, conductors, and Switchmen's Union of North America and designated railroads, 1946. 2 volumes. | ||||||||||||
| Wage increase case. | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.17.13B | Railway and steamship clerks, freight handlers, express and station employees and Gulf Coast Lines, et al., 1945. 7 volumes. | ||||||||||||
| Rule changes case. | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.15.16F | Joint transcripts of proceedings of fifteen cooperating railway labor organizations and the locomotive firemen and enginemen, conductors, Switchmen's Union of North America and the Eastern, Western and Southeastern Carriers' Conference Committees, 1946. 24 volumes. | ||||||||||||
| Wage dispute. Includes briefs. | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.15.9B | Seventeen cooperating railway labor organizations and designated railroads, 1947. 1 volume. | ||||||||||||
| Wage increase case. | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.15.11B | American Train Dispatchers Association and designated railroads, 1951. 10 volumes. | ||||||||||||
| Wage increase and additional paid vacation days case. | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.15.12F | Engineers, firemen and enginemen, and conductors and designated railroads, 1952. 11 volumes. | ||||||||||||
| More than one class of road service case. | |||||||||||||
| Firemen and enginemen and designated railroads, 1953-1954. 1 volume. | |||||||||||||
| Alleged violation of diesel agreements case. | |||||||||||||
| Engineers and designated railroads, 1954. 2 volumes. | |||||||||||||
| Wage increase case. | |||||||||||||
| Conductors and Pullman Company, 1954. 13 volumes. | |||||||||||||
| Request for rule changes case. | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.15.13B | Switchmen's Union of North America and Western Carriers' Conference Committee, 1955. 14 volumes. | ||||||||||||
| Foremen's differential case. Includes briefs. | |||||||||||||
| Engineers and Eastern, Western, and Southeastern Carriers' Conference Committee, 1960. 22 volumes. | |||||||||||||
| Wage adjustment case. Includes carriers post-hearing brief. | |||||||||||||
President's Emergency Board Proceedings, 1941-1962
| Printed and mimeographed transcripts of proceedings of various wage, benefits, rules, and force reduction cases brought by labor unions against individual railroads or groups of railroads. | |||||||||||||
| Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by year of case. | |||||||||||||
| Related Material: Chief of Labor Relations: 1938, 15 percent wage reduction files. | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.14.15B | Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway, 1941. | ||||||||||||
| Volumes 1-29. | |||||||||||||
| Missing volume 26. | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.14.16F | Volumes 30-34. | ||||||||||||
| Appendix. | |||||||||||||
| Executive Session. | |||||||||||||
| Wage-Rules Case of the Engineers and Trainmen, 1946. 1 volume. | |||||||||||||
| Transcript of proceedings in Chicago, Illinois of the wage-rules case of the engineers and trainmen v designated railroads. | |||||||||||||
| 40-Hour Work Week, Rules Changes, and Wage Increase Case, 1948. | |||||||||||||
| Transcript of proceedings in Chicago, Illinois of the 40-hour work week, rules changes, and wage increase case of sixteen cooperating railway labor organizations (non-operating) v designated railroads. 1 volume. | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.15.2F | Mimeographed copies of employee exhibits 1-34. | ||||||||||||
| Mimeographed copies of carriers exhibits 1-38. | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.15.1B | Engineers-Firemen-Switchmen Wage Rules Case, 1948. | ||||||||||||
| Transcript of proceedings in Chicago, Illinois of this wage rules case against designated railroads. Includes volumes 1-33, appendix and carriers' exhibits 1-36, a, and c. | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.14.16F | Firemen's Diesel Case, 1949. 2 volumes. | ||||||||||||
| Printed transcript of proceedings in New York, N.Y. of diesel firemen and enginemen v designated railroads. Includes volumes 1-41 and appendix. | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.15.3B | Engineers' Diesel Case, 1949. 1 volume. | ||||||||||||
| Printed transcript of proceedings in Chicago, Illinois of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers v designated railroads. | |||||||||||||
| Conductors and Trainmen Wage-Rules Case, 1950. 2 volumes. | |||||||||||||
| Printed transcript of proceedings in Chicago, Illinois of the conductors and trainmen v designated railroads. Includes volumes 1-49 and appendix. | |||||||||||||
| Yardmasters 40-Hour Week Case, 1950. 11 volumes. | |||||||||||||
| Mimeographed transcript of proceedings in Chicago, Illinois of the railroad yardmasters 40-hour week case. Includes volumes 1-10 and carriers' brief. | |||||||||||||
| Firemen and Enginemen Wage-Rules Case, 1951. 1 volume. | |||||||||||||
| Printed transcript of proceedings in Washington, D.C. of the Brotherhood of Firemen and Enginemen v designated railroads. | |||||||||||||
| Union Shop Case of Seventeen Cooperating Railway Labor Organizations, 1951-1952. 1 volume. | |||||||||||||
| Transcript of proceedings in Washington, D.C. of this case against designated railroads. | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.15.4F | Vacations, Holidays, Health and Welfare Benefits, and Rules Case, 1954. 2 volumes. | ||||||||||||
| Printed transcript of proceedings in Chicago, Illinois of this case of fifteen cooperating railway labor organizations (non-operating) v designated railroads. Includes volumes 1-38 and appendix. | |||||||||||||
| Railway and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express and Station Employees v Railway Express Agency, 1954. 12 volumes. | |||||||||||||
| Mimeographed transcript of proceedings in Chicago, Illinois. Includes volumes 1-11 and report to the President. | |||||||||||||
| Railway Conductors and Brakemen Wage-Rules Case, 1954. 1 volume. | |||||||||||||
| Transcript of proceedings in Chicago, Illinois of the Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen v designated railroads wage-rules case. | |||||||||||||
| Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen Wage-Rules Case, 1955. 1 volume. | |||||||||||||
| Transcript of proceedings in Chicago, Illinois of the Brotherhood of Firemen and Enginemen v designated railroads wage-rules case. | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.15.5B | Thirteen Cooperating Railway Labor Organizations (Non-Operating) Wages, Health and Welfare Benefits Case, 1955. 1 volume. | ||||||||||||
| Transcript of proceedings of this case against designated railroads. | |||||||||||||
| Railroad Trainmen Wage-Rules Case, 1957. 1 volume. | |||||||||||||
| Transcript of proceedings in Chicago, Illinois of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen v designated railroads wage-rules case. | |||||||||||||
| Switchmen's Union of North America Wage Adjustment Case, 1960. 14 volumes. | |||||||||||||
| Mimeographed transcripts of proceedings in Chicago, Illinois of the Switchmen's Union of North America v Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company and other carriers wage adjustment case. Includes 13 volumes of proceedings and 1 volume post hearing brief for the carriers. | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.15.6F | Eleven Cooperating (Non-Operating) Railway Labor Organizations Wages and Fringe Benefits Case, 1960. 23 volumes. | ||||||||||||
| Mimeographed transcripts of proceedings in Chicago, Illinois of this case against designated railroads. Includes volumes 1-20, report to the President, pre-hearing brief for the carriers, and employees' brief. | |||||||||||||
| Eleven Cooperating (Non-Operating) Railway Labor Organizations General Wage Increase and Force Reduction Rule Case, 1962. 15 volumes. | |||||||||||||
| Mimeographed transcripts of proceedings in Chicago, Illinois of this case against designated railroads. | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.15.5B | Railroad Telegraphers v Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company, 1962. 12 volumes. | ||||||||||||
| Mimeographed transcripts of proceedings in Chicago, Illinois of this case arguing that no position be abolished or discontinued except by agreement. | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.15.7B | Railroad Telegraphers v New York Central and Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroads, 1962. 11 volumes. | ||||||||||||
| Mimeographed transcripts of proceedings in New York, New York of this case arguing that no position be abolished or discontinued except by agreement. Volumes 1-12. Missing volume 7. | |||||||||||||
Board of Adjustment Decisions, 1918-1947
| Printed copies of decisions by the Southwestern Regional Train Service Board of Adjustment and the Canadian Railway Board of Adjustment on employee claims regarding compensation, work assignments, scheduling, and disciplinary action. | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.13.12F | Southwestern Regional Train Service Board of Adjustment Decisions Nos. 2-808, 1928-1934. 5 folders. | ||||||||||||
| Canadian Railway Board of Adjustment No. 1 Decisions Nos. 16-559, 1919-1947. 4 folders. | |||||||||||||
| Canadian Railway Board of Adjustment No. 1 Proceedings, 1918-1938. | |||||||||||||
U.S. Railroad Labor Board Files, 1920-1957
| Correspondence and supporting papers covering rates of pay, rules, working conditions, and decisions for the various classifications of railroad workers. The material is primarily for the 1920s and 1930s, however, the clerks file B5 does contain material from 1920 to 1957. An index giving specific contents of each file is in box 1. | |||||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.13.7B | 1 | Index. | |||||||||||
| Nos. A1-A12. General. | |||||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.13.8F | 2 | Nos. A13-A49. General. | |||||||||||
| Nos. B1-B4. Clerks. | |||||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.13.9B | 3 | Nos. B5-B16. Clerks. | |||||||||||
| Nos. C1-C9. Maintenance of Way. | |||||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.13.10F | 4 | Nos. C10-C15. Maintenance of Way. | |||||||||||
| Nos. D1-D9. Telegraphers. | |||||||||||||
| Nos. E1-E12. Dispatchers. | |||||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.13.11B | 5 | Nos. F1-F9. Signalmen. | |||||||||||
| Missing Nos. G-H. | |||||||||||||
| Nos. I1-I3. Dining Car Employees. | |||||||||||||
| Nos. J1-J2. Railroad Supervisors of Mechanics. | |||||||||||||
| No. K1. Railroad Station Agents. | |||||||||||||
| Nos. L1-L7. Yardmasters. | |||||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.13.12F | 6 | No. M1. Roadmasters and Supervisory Association. | |||||||||||
| No. N1. Brotherhood of Railroad Patrolmen. | |||||||||||||
| Missing Nos. O-P. | |||||||||||||
| No. Q1. Stationary Engineers. | |||||||||||||
| No. R1. Longshoremen. | |||||||||||||
| Nos. S1-S6. Shop Craft Employees. | |||||||||||||
| Nos. T1-T2. Stationary Engineers (Steam), Firemen, Shop and Roundhouse Laborers. | |||||||||||||
| No. U. Telephone and Telegraph Maintenance and Construction Employees. | |||||||||||||
National Railroad Adjustment Board Awards, 1st-4th Divisions, 1934-1948
| Arranged by division, thereunder by award number. | |||||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.16.16F | 1 | Nos. 263-1800. First Division, Volumes 3-9, 1935-1947. | |||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.17.1B | 2 | Nos. 1801-3000. First Division, Volumes 10-16, 1935-1947. | |||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.17.2F | 3 | Nos. 3001-4200. First Division, Volumes 17-24, 1935-1947. | |||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.17.3B | 4 | Nos. 4201-5500. First Division, Volumes 25-31, 1935-1947. | |||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.17.4F | 5 | Nos. 5501-6500. First Division, Volumes 32-39, 1935-1947. | |||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.17.5B | 6 | Nos. 6501-7525. First Division, Volumes 40-47, 1935-1947. | |||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.17.6F | 7 | Nos. 7526-8747. First Division, Volumes 48-56, 1935-1947. | |||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.17.7B | 8 | Nos. 8748-10,100. First Division, Volumes 57-65, 1935-1947. | |||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.17.8F | 9 | Nos. 10,101-11,400. First Division, Volumes 66-74, 1935-1947. | |||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.17.9B | 10 | Nos. 881-1281. Second Division, 1942-1948. | |||||||||||
| Nos. 1-925. Third Division, Volumes 1-7, 1934-1947. | |||||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.17.10F | 11 | Nos. 926-1850. Third Division, Volumes 8-16, 1934-1947. | |||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.17.11B | 12 | Nos. 1851-2800. Third Division, Volumes 17-25, 1934-1947. | |||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.17.12F | 13 | Nos. 2801-3600. Third Division, Volumes 26-33, 1934-1947. | |||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.17.13B | 14 | Nos. 1-500. Fourth Division, 1935-1948. | |||||||||||
National Railroad Adjustment Board Cases, 1st-4th Divisions, 1936-1961
| Mimeographed transcripts of proceedings of cases brought before the board regarding wages and rules for various classes of railroad employee. | |||||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.16.14F | 1 | First Division Cases, 1936-1956: | |||||||||||
| Conductors. | |||||||||||||
| Trainmen. | |||||||||||||
| Enginemen. | |||||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.16.15B | 2 | First Division Cases, Enginemen, 1936-1956. | |||||||||||
| Second Division Cases, Shopmen, 1949-1960. | |||||||||||||
| Third Division Cases, 1945-1957: | |||||||||||||
| Clerks. | |||||||||||||
| Dining Car. | |||||||||||||
| Signalmen. | |||||||||||||
| Maintenance of Way. | |||||||||||||
| Dispatchers. | |||||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.16.16F | 3 | Third Division Cases, Telegraphers, 1945-1957. | |||||||||||
| Fourth Division Cases, Yardmasters, 1946-1961. | |||||||||||||
Presidential Railroad Commission, Transcript of Proceedings, February 16-October 31, 1961
| Mimeographed transcripts of the commission's proceedings (hearings), distributed by the Association of Western Railways Committee on Labor Relations as its circular 918-15. | |||||||||||||
| The Presidential Railroad Commission was established under Executive Order No. 10891 to investigate disputes resulting from notices served by the railroads on their employees announcing their desire to revise rules and agreements regarding salaries and work assignments. | |||||||||||||
| 136.B.14.7B | Volume Nos. 1-29, February-May 1961. | ||||||||||||
| 136.B.14.8F | Volume Nos. 30-71, May-August 1961. | ||||||||||||
| 136.B.14.9B | Volume Nos. 72-96, August-October 1961. | ||||||||||||
RELATED MATERIALS
CATALOG HEADINGS
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.
- Topics:
- Arbitration, Industrial -- Northwestern States.
- Foreign workers -- Northwestern States.
- Railroads -- Employees -- Labor unions -- Northwestern States.
- Railroads -- Mergers -- Northwestern States.
- Railroads -- Northwestern States -- Employees
- Wages -- Railroads -- Northwestern States.
- Women railroad employees -- Northwestern States.
- Organizations:
- Northern Pacific Railway Company.
- Northern Pacific Railway Company -- Employees.
- Northern Pacific Railway Company -- Personnel management.
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