Inventory of the U.S. National War Labor Board Records, 1942

Series I Dispute Cases

Physical Description: 87 Record Boxes, 6 Document Boxes

Scope and Content Note

These are files of the dispute cases brought before the Tenth Regional War Labor Board. Cases are identified by the name of the company. Arrangement is by Standard Industrial Codes (SIC), a numerical system, then alphabetically by company within an SIC code. There is a duplicate list of these cases arranged by company, alphabetically in the Appendices. Box 85-A holds supplemental material in binders consisting of Decisions of the Tenth Regional War Labor Board arranged chronologically.

Series II Wage Stabilization Division

Physical Description: 41 Record Boxes, 1 Document Box

Sub-Series 1: Wage Stabilization Cases

Physical Description: (15 record boxes)

Scope and Content Note

Arrangement is by SIC code. The code and industry is the first line of the Box/Folder List. The second line, in quotes, is the additional information written on the folder tab. In larger cases, a company, industry association, or union name might appear on the folder tab.

Sub-Series 2: Job Descriptions and Analyses

Physical Description: (3 record boxes, 1 document box)

Scope and Content Note

These are booklets or binders created by the employers or industrial associations. In some cases, they were submitted to the Wage Stabilization Division as Form 10, for filing applications for voluntary wage or salary adjustments.

Sub-Series 3: Wage Brackets and Supporting Material

Physical Description: (15 record boxes)

Scope and Content Note

A wage bracket is a band of rates or rate ranges from minima to maxima representing the sound, tested, and stable rates paid by employers for a given job classification in a given industry and labor market area. Arrangement is by SIC code, the box list has the folder titles in quotes. Geographical areas are frequently listed in addition to the industry. Of special interest are three binders with Wage Bracket Committee Memoranda. The "Unnumbered Memoranda" explain the orders for using wage brackets to stabilize wages.

Sub-Series 4: Agreements

Physical Description: (3 record boxes)

Scope and Content Note

Collective bargaining agreements arranged by SIC code.

Sub-Series 5: Subject Files

Physical Description: (5 record boxes)

Scope and Content Note

Material is arranged alphabetically. The main headings are taken from industrial relations terms, labor legislation and government agencies.

Series III: Industry Commissions and Panels

Physical Description: 11 Record Boxes, 3 Document Boxes

Scope and Content Note

The West Coast Aircraft Committee/West Coast Airframe Panel (3 record boxes, 1 document box) the West Coast Lumber Commission (4 record boxes, 1 document box) and the War Shipping Panel (1 record box, 1 document box) are the main industries here. Material was also collected for the Shipbuilding, Non-Ferrous Metal, Daily Newspaper Commissions and the Wage Adjustment Board for Building Trades (3 record boxes). Files contain dispute cases, agreements, general orders, job descriptions, minutes, hearing transcripts and general information on the industry.

Series IV: Administration

Physical Description: 3 Record Boxes, 1 Document Box

Scope and Content Note

Most of these records were created by the national office in Washington, D.C. Two boxes contain binders on Daily Board Actions, Weekly Actions, Field Memoranda and a Manual of Operations. There are folders on executive and general orders and their interpretations, monthly reports to the Senate, research and statistical reports, personnel matters, and from Region Ten two folders of correspondence with the California State Federation of Labor.

Series V: Region Xii Records for Oregon and Washington

Physical Description: 7 Record Boxes, 1 Document Box

Scope and Content Note

This collection has not been processed except for a box list. The records of the Dispute Cases and the Wage Stabilization Division are in good order and researchers can easily use these files. Of interest, but not as well organized, is a box on the Alaska Salmon Industry.

Series VI: Descriptive Material on the National War Labor Board

Physical Description: .5 Document Box

Scope and Content Note

Articles, reports and pamphlets about the NWLB, and key documents created by the NWLB on its purpose and operation.

Series VII: National Wage Stabilization Board

Physical Description: .5 Document Box

Scope and Content Note

Three folders include a report on the organization and procedure for this body, and press releases during its year of existence.

Series VIII: Pre-NWLB Cases (1925 - 1939)

Physical Description: .5 Record Box

Scope and Content Note

The Clark Kerr Collection includes transcripts of arbitrations by the U.S. Maritime Commission. Most the arbitrations deal with the maritime industry except for a Key System Transit Co. case from 1925 and a 1938 case between the Hotel Employers' Ass'n of San Francisco and the building trades.

Series IX: Post-NWLB Cases (1946 - 1947)

Physical Description: .5 Record Box

Scope and Content Note

In this group, transcripts and other documents of four arbitrations are between the Pacific American Shipowners Association and maritime unions. The fifth is for the California Street Cable Railway and the Amalgamated Association of Street Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employees.

Series I Dispute Cases

Physical Description: (87 Record Boxes; 6 Document Boxes)

Scope and Content Note

Appendix

Series I

Physical Description: (87 Record Boxes; 6 Document Boxes)

Box 1 - SIC: 01 - 16

Box-folder 1/1

Atalia Mining Company, SIC 01

Additional Note

10-3-49, 111-53, green label, "duplicate"

Box-folder 1/2

California Vegetable Growers, SIC 01

Additional Note

10-D-843, 111-13756, green laboe

Box-folder 1/3

California Vegetable Growers, SIC 01

Additional Note

10-D-843, 111-13756, green label, "duplicate"

Box-folder 1/4

Growers & Shippers of Imperial & Ymua, SIC 01

Additional Note

10-D-234, 111-2833, yellow label, UCAPAWA

Box-folder 1/5

Milk Sheds of Los Angeles & vicinity, SIC 016

Additional Note

10-D-267, 111-1117-D, green label, "duplicate"

Box-folder 1/6

Western Compress Co., SIC 07

Additional Note

10-D-781, 111-12725-D, green label, "duplicate"

Box-folder 1/7

Western Compress Co., SIC 07

Additional Note

10-D-781,111-12725-D, green label

Box-folder 1/8

Valley Compress Co., SIC 07

Additional Note

10-D-464, 111-7181-D, green label

Box-folder 1/9

Valley Compress Co., SIC 07

Additional Note

10-D-464, 111-7181-D, green label

Box-folder 1/10

Valley Compress Co., SIC 07

Additional Note

10-D-464, 111-7181-D, green label, "duplicate"

Box-folder 1/11

Alaska Salmon Industry, SIC 092

Additional Note

111-704, green label, "duplicate"

Box-folder 1/12

San Francisco Sardine Ass'n., SIC 094

Additional Note

10-D-269, 111-3524, green label, "duplicate"

Box-folder 1/13

San Francisco Sardine Ass'n, SIC 094

Additional Note

10-D-241, 111-3010, yellow label

Box-folder 1/14

Coline Gasoline Corp., SIC 13

Additional Note

10-D-912, 111-15225, yellow label, O.W.I.U.

Box-folder 1/15

Coline Gasoline Corp. SIC 13

Additional Note

10-D-912, 111-15225, green labol, "duplicate"

Box-folder 1/16

Norwalk Co., SIC 13,

Additional Note

10-d-989, 111-16355, yellow label, O.W.I.U.

Box-folder 1/17

California Rock Co., SIC 14

Additional Note

10-D-86, 111-864, green label, "duplicate"

Box-folder 1/18

Blue Diamond Corp., SIC 14

Additional Note

10-D-921, 111-15874, green label, "duplicate"

Box-folder 1/19

U. S. Gypsum Co., SIC 14

Additional Note

10-D-191, 111-2492, no label

Box-folder 1/20

Associated General Contractors, SIC 16

Additional Note

10-D-290, 111-4318, no label

Box 2 - SIC: 16 - 20

Box-folder 2/1

Bechtel, McCone and Parsons, SIC 161

Additional Note

10-D-204, 111-2387-D, green label

Box-folder 2/2

Association of General Contractors of America, SIC 161

Additional Note

10-D-166, Wage Adjustment Board Case #WA 133, green label, "duplicate"

Box-folder 2/3

Association of General Contractors of America, SIC 16

Additional Note

10-D-290, 111-4318-D, green label

Box-folder 2/4

Association of General Contractors of America, SIC 16

Additional Note

10-D-290,111-4318-D, green label, "duplicate"

Box-folder 2/5

A.B.C. Housemoving, SIC 16

Additional Note

10-D-160, 111-3314, green label, "duplicate"

Box-folder 2/6

H. C. Hastorf, SIC 17

Additional Note

10-D-790, 111-9177, green label

Box-folder 2/7

Cleveland Wrecking Co., SIC 179

Additional Note

10-D-707, 111-11469HO, no folder

Box-folder 2/8

Armour & Co., Cudahy Packing, Wilson & Co., Swift & Co., SIC 201

Additional Note

10-D-24, no label

Box-folder 2/9

Armour & Co., Cudahy Packing, Wilson & Co., Swift & Co., SIC 201

Additional Note

10-D-290, 111-4318-D, green label

Box-folder 2/10

Armour & Co., Cudahy Packing, Wilson & Co., Swift & Co., SIC 201

Additional Note

10-D-290, 111-4318-D, green label, "duplicate"

Box-folder 2/11

Armour & Co., Cudahy Packing, Wilson & Co., Swift & Co., SIC 201

Additional Note

10-D-290, 111-5762-D, no label, EXHIBITS

Box-folder 2/12

Armour & Co., Cudahy Packing, Wilson & Co., Swift & Co., SIC 201

Additional Note

10-D-744, 111-12119-D, green label

Box-folder 2/13

Harry T. Boone Meat Co., SIC 201

Additional Note

10-D-202, 111-2516, green label, "duplicate"

Box-folder 2/14