Bureau of Information of the Eastern Railways, 1929-1930
Scope and Contents note
Pullman Car Lines Assistant Federal Auditor during the World War I government control of the railroads, and the Pullman Company’s first, 1920-1935, Supervisor of Industrial Relations. Simmons directed the company’s labor relations activities in the newly created Bureau of Industrial Relations and initiated company unions under the Plan of Employee Representation.
Records concern Pullman Company working conditions and employee union activities from World War I to the Depression. Included are materials on the United States Railroad Administration and the National Agreement, the Pullman Company Plan of Employee Representation, employee mutual benefit associations, and negotiations and agreements with clerks, conductors, porters, shop, and yard employees unions. There is also information and data on black employees, conductor working conditions, occupational classifications, rates of pay, etc., and there are fairly complete memoranda files with other company officials, including E. F. Carry, D. A. Crawford, L. S. Hungerford, and L. S. Taylor.
Dates
- Creation: 1929-1930
Creator
- From the Collection: Pullman Company (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
The Pullman Company records are open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 1 box at a time (Priority III).
Medical records and records of disciplinary action are closed for a period of fifty years after the creation of the record. Such records may be disclosed only to the named individual or his legal representative. Application and service files that may contain medical and disciplinary information will be reviewed and records removed before the files are supplied to a researcher.
Personnel records less than fifty years old and not specified in (1) above are open for research with the user's written assurance that information from the records will be used for statistical or summary purposes only and that no specific names or individually identifiable information will be disclosed. Such information may be revealed only if the individual or his legal representative agrees to its release, or if the individual is deceased.
Photocopies of open personnel records less than fifty years old are supplied only for the researcher's personal use and may not be reproduced. All copies must be destroyed or returned upon completion of work.
Repository Details
Part of the The Newberry Library - Modern Manuscripts and Archives Repository
60 West Walton Street
Chicago Illinois 60610 United States
312-255-3512
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