Subgroup: Conference Boards & Negotiations
ca. 1939-1963, bulk 1950-1960
Quantity:ca. ll.60 linear feet

Special Collections and University Archives
Rutgers University Libraries

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Table of Contents

• Outline of Series
• Provenance
• Administrative History
• Scope and Content

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Series Descriptions and Container Lists 1

Outline of Series

Subgroup: Conference Boards & Negotiations

1. General Electric Corporation Conference Board & Negotiations Files
2. Westinghouse Electric Corporation Conference Board & Negotiations Files
3. GM Conference Board & Negotiations Files
4. Subsidiary Conference Boards Files

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Provenance

In October, 1965, Rutgers University received the Records of the International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers, AFL-CIO (IUE), in accordance with the agreement between the IUE and the University Library designating Rutgers as the official repository for the archives of the union. The first accession group of IUE Archives contained approximately 495 linear feet of material and was transferred to Rutgers in the original office transfiles formerly stored at the union's international headquarters in Washington, D.C. These transfiles contained records and documents generated and collected by IUE President James B. Carey and other union officers, the various IUE Departments and their heads, and the constituent district offices and local unions from 1949 (the inception of the union) to 1962.

The IUE Conference Board & Negotiations records, comprising 11.5 linear feet, constitute one subgroup within Record Group I of the IUE Archives. Though the IUE's original central transfiles included a small core of IUE Conference Board records generated by the respective chairmen of the major conference boards (GE, Westinghouse, GM), Rutgers University Archivist William Miller and his staff attempted to amalgamate these with the voluminous conference board records contained in other departments, thus creating an all-inclusive subgroup. However, this effort remained incomplete by 1971. Upon further appraisal of this artificial arrangement plan, it was decided to reconstitute and return identifiable Conference Board & Negotiation files to their department of origin, or the department head responsible for generating the records. Thus, the bulk of the various IUE Conference Board & Negotiations Files are contained within the following subgroups: President's Office, Secretary-Treasurer's Office, and Legal Department.

Arrangement, processing, and description of the IUE Conference Board & Negotiations records- Record Group I, IUE Archives, was initiated and completed in 1993 after the Special Collections and Archives Department of the Rutgers University Library received a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) and additional financial support from the International Union of Electronic, Electrical, Salaried, Machine & Furniture Workers, AFL-CIO.

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Administrative History

The International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers (CIO) Conference Board was established as the union's chief institutional mechanism to coordinate the collective bargaining activities of local unions situated within a multi-plant setting, or, "more or less well-defined segments within the electrical, radio and machine industries." Article XXIV, Section B of the IUE Constitution (adopted at the union's 2nd Annual Convention, December 1950), formally created the Conference Boards representing IUE locals in the General Electric Company (GE), General Motors Corporation (GM), Westinghouse Electric Corporation, and Sylvania Electric Products Company. In fact, these IUE Conference Boards had been fully operational during the union's earliest negotiations with the aforementioned chain corporations. The constitution empowered the IUE Executive Board with the authority to establish additional conference boards as the need arose.

The Conference Board represented the IUE's functional and democratic response to the complexity of collective bargaining with large, decentralized electrical and electronics manufacturers. It united all locals within their respective corporate "chain" to formulate a common bargaining agenda and achieve industry-wide standards with respect to wages, pension, health, and insurance benefits, employment security, seniority, union security, and improved vacation and holiday pay provisions. By evolving democratic procedures for the framing of contract demands and building a consensus toward negotiations, the IUE leadership blunted management's ability to divide locals against one another.

Each Conference Board consisted of delegates elected by each local union falling within its jurisdiction. Representation was proportional, based upon the following formula: one delegate for the first thousand (1,000) members; one additional delegate for each additional thousand members; provided that a local may have no more than four (4) delegates. The primary tasks of the Conference Board involved: formulating collective bargaining demands within their respective jurisdiction; designating negotiating committees to negotiate contracts; determining the acceptance or rejection of national agreements; coordinating the administration of bargaining agreements within their jurisdiction; and determining whether or not strikes should be called to obtain satisfactory national collective bargaining agreements. Acceptance of a national agreement by the Conference Board required a vote by local unions "representing no less than two-thirds of the IUE members represented by that Conference Board." Once approved, the national agreement was binding upon all locals covered under the jurisdiction of the Conference Board. Likewise, a two- thirds vote determined whether strikes should be initiated or terminated. An elastic clause in Article XXIV enabled the Conference Board to "establish additional regulations to govern their activities, subject to the approval of the IUE Executive Board. Thus, each Conference Board drafted its own rules and procedures, primarily empowering and expanding the functions of the Conference Board Chairman.

Local union delegates attended an annual February meeting of their respective Board to elect a Conference Board Chairman. The Chairman served a one-year term and had primary responsibility for coordinating the collective bargaining activities and administering the national agreement under their jurisdiction. The Conference Board Chairman served as a permanent member of the negotiations committee. The chairman was empowered to call special meetings of committees and subcommittees established by the Board--either upon the request of IUE President, or, written request of locals representing two-thirds membership. Assisted by the IUE International Office, Conference Board Chairmen participated in contract negotiations and furnished local unions with minutes and other informational material (concerning wages, hours, and working conditions) generated by the Conference Board and Negotiating Committee. They also were empowered to arrange meetings with management concerning questions arising over interpretation of the national agreement and resolution of grievance matters at the national appeal level. At the request of a local union within his jurisdiction, the Chairman assisted in negotiating supplemental agreements to the national contract, providing that these did not violate the national agreement and jeopardize standards and working conditions existing in other plants. All Conference Board Chairmen were active in planning organization drives and the establishment of Steward's Councils within their jurisdiction.

Prior to the annual Conference Board meeting to formulate a bargaining program, the respective Conference Board Chairmen called for regional grassroots conferences in an effort to survey and assess local conditions and management's observance of the current contract. Often, in conjunction with the Secretary-Treasurer's Office and Research Department, they initiated wage surveys to gauge the extent of existing inequities or endemic problems impacting upon future negotiations. Once the bargaining demands had been formulated, the Chairman, assisted by the International Office and Negotiating Committee, devised a strategy for the impending negotiation sessions with management. During the course of negotiations, the Conference Board Chairman and IUE leadership conducted a vigorous educational and publicity campaign to sustain local union support for the initiatives of the Negotiating Committee, and the pending national agreement.

The 1950's witnessed the union's vigorous expansion of its Conference Board Program, extending coverage to IUE members working in diverse occupation sectors and other chain corporations. Conference Boards were established for groups with more than 25,000 employees, or where the IUE Executive Council deemed justified. Among the new Conference Boards were: R.C.A., Sperry-Rand, Professional, Technical and Salaried Workers, Skilled Trades, and Radio, TV & Parts, and Philco. The IUE also created Councils for significant occupational segments requiring their own special collective bargaining agenda. These included workers employed in the Battery, Optical, and Lamp industries, nominally affiliated with the electrical manufacturing industry.

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Scope and Content

The IUE Conference Board & Negotiations subgroup contains 11.63 linear feet of records documenting the history and organizational evolution of the major IUE Conference Boards and their impact upon labor-management relations within the large chain corporations--GE, Westinghouse, and GM--during the 1950's. Establishment of the IUE conference boards reflected the union's functional and bureaucratic response to the complexity of negotiations with highly decentralized conglomerates. Record contents provide evidential documentation of the administration and operation of the various conference boards and their impact on pattern bargaining within the electrical and electronics industries. The IUE Conference Board provided an institutional and democratic framework for local union representation in the framing of contract proposals and other major collective bargaining decisions--strikes, work stoppages, and the acceptance or rejection of contracts.

Proceedings, minutes, and reports of the various IUE Conference Boards and Negotiating Committees (GE, Westinghouse, and GM) are incomplete and sporadic for certain years but still provide the best documentation of the board's scope of activities. Reports to the Conference Boards prepared by various IUE Conference Board Chairmen and officers such as President James B. Carey, Albin Hartnett, and Research Director, David Lasser, offer an incisive overview of major issues and the formulation of contract demands pursuant to negotiations with the major chain corporation. Contained within the reports are analyses of wage patterns and statistical data on corporate profits, historical sketches of collective-bargaining relations with the major chains, and the comparative analysis of contracts on an intra-industry basis. Collectively, these sources provide labor historians and labor-management specialists with valuable reference material on the evolution of the IUE's collective bargaining agenda. Particularly noteworthy was the union's refinement of its pension, health, and insurance programs and the struggle to achieve employer- financed benefits. Another predominant theme was the IUE's concern with employment security issues and its successive contract proposals for a minimum security wage, guaranteed annual wage, and Supplemental Unemployment Benefits Plan (SUB) in the face of layoffs and economic recession. Other collective bargaining goals included: the inclusion of wage escalators and cost of living adjustments; establishment of a wage inequity fund; and improved union security, seniority, and grievance provisions.

Reports, circulars, and releases issued by the various IUE Negotiating Committees and transcripts of IUE bargaining sessions are the best sources to trace the chronology of negotiations with GE, Westinghouse, and GM. The Secretary-Treasurer's Office subgroup, however, contains a more comprehensive Conference Board and Negotiations series covering inclusive bargaining dates and a broader array of conference boards (i.e. RCA, Sylvania, and Radio, T.V. & Parts). This material documents the collective bargaining process and the strategic maneuvering by the IUE to formulate contract proposals and respond to corporate counter proposals.

The activities of IUE Conference Board Chairmen (John Callahan, GE, Michael Fitzpatrick and Robert Nellis, Westinghouse, and E.J. Kraft, GM), are chronicled in supporting correspondence and memoranda accompanying sessions of the Conferences Boards. Their missives are interspersed throughout the series. Chief correspondents include IUE officials--James B. Carey, Albin Hartnett, David Lasser, Joseph Swire and Benjamin Sigal. There is also correspondence between IUE officers (specifically Carey) and corporate executives--including letters received from GE President Ralph Cordiner, Westinghouse President, Gwilym Price, and Louis G. Seaton, General Motors Director for Labor Relations. While Conference Board meetings and negotiations dominate the subject content, there is important documentation of IUE efforts to build a consensus among locals in regards to formulating contract proposals and taking strike action. This is evident in the regional IUE-GE Grassroots Conferences which shaped the union's bargaining agenda with GE. Though contract demands were filtered from the bottom-up, there is ample correspondence and memoranda showing how the IUE leadership and Conference Board Chairmen orchestrated the bargaining agenda and undertook extensive educational work to build consensus at the local and regional levels.

The subgroup also documents the impact of various strikes, organizing campaigns, and government (war) economic stabilization programs on negotiations and labor agreements. There is supplementary information pertaining to the 1952 lockouts and strikes at Bowling Green, Kentucky and Buffalo, NY, and the nationwide IUE strike against Westinghouse in 1955-56. The IUE-GM Conference Board series sheds light on the impact of UAW agreements with GM, and their implications for IUE members within GM. The 1960 IUE-GE contract talks comprise a sizable portion of the IUE-GE Conference Board Records and include strike material and records pertaining to IUE Local 301 and Leo Jandreau (Schenectady, NY).

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1. GENERAL ELECTRIC CORPORATION CONFERENCE BOARD & NEGOTIATIONS FILES , Date Span: 1949-1963, 8.30 LN.FT.

Organized chronologically by year and arranged alphabetically within the yearly grouping.

The GE Conference Board and Negotiations Files document the frequently contentious course of IUE- GE negotiations at the national level from 1950-1963. This series includes a variety of records and material generated and collated by GE Conference Board participants, IUE officers, and GE management active in contract negotiations during the period covered.

The bulk of the series includes the following: minutes, reports, and releases generated by IUE- CIO "Grassroots" GE regional conferences, IUE-GE Conference Board meetings, and the IUE-GE Negotiations Committee; minutes (transcripts) of IUE-GE negotiations and bargaining sessions; union and corporate-issued publicity material (circulars, leaflets, newsletters, press releases, and clippings); summaries and analyses of contract proposals, counter proposals, and agreements; transcripts and summaries of IUE-GE bargaining sessions conducted under the auspices of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Services; correspondence (the bulk, office copies) between IUE and GE officers; copies and transcripts of statements, addresses, and interviews; and IUE memoranda and correspondence relating to GE negotiations and labor-management relations. There are also brief overviews of IUE-GE collective bargaining history which were prepared by Carey and his staff. A substantial portion of the IUE memoranda and circular letters were issued by John H. Callahan (IUE-GE Conference Board Chairman), Frank Fiorillo (IUE-GE Conference Board Secretary), James B. Carey, Al Hartnett, David Lasser, Joseph Swire, and Benjamin Sigal. Corporate correspondents include GE President, Ralph Cordiner, Vice President for Labor-Management Relations, Lemuel Boulware, and Virgil B. Day, Manager for Union Relations.

Record contents trace the evolution of the turbulent collective bargaining history between the IUE and GE. From the outset, GE stalled official recognition of the IUE and the first contract negotiations--a three-month affair that included a series of "rolling strikes" closing down 13 GE plants in eight states--in 1950, set the tone for subsequent collective bargaining sessions. IUE- GE negotiations were marred by strikes, in 1953 (Syracuse, NY and Linton, IN) and 1960 (nation- wide), as well as threatened work stoppages throughout the decade. The series contains a small amount of correspondence and bulletins devoted to the 1960 GE strike, with reference to the actions of IUE Local #301 and its Business Agent, Leo Jandreau, during the strike. Though the national IUE-GE labor accord of 1955 (a five year pact) provided a modicum of labor stability on wage issues, the Conference Board records and related materials document the contentious bargaining relationship over the union's push for a comprehensive employment security program to address the problems of automation and technological displacement, runaway shops, subcontracting of work, and cyclical recessions. Bargaining gains and trends are traced in the areas of: health, pension, and insurance benefits; cost of living adjustments (COLAS): and unsuccessful campaigns for a guaranteed annual wage, supplementary unemployment benefits, and non-contributory payment provisions for funding employee health care and retirement programs.

Memoranda and correspondence, sent and received by IUE-GE Conference Board officials and IUE officers, illuminate the degree to which the IUE's jurisdictional struggle with the UE impacted upon GE negotiations. IUE organizational gains were directly proportional to strengthening its position at the bargaining table. Early IUE-GE negotiations took place against the backdrop of a frenzied anti-communist environment and IUE officials cited examples of GE's policy of collusive- bargaining with the communist-dominated UE to defeat the IUE in key locals. Another predominant theme involves the intense publicity campaign waged by GE at both the national and local levels to discredit the IUE during negotiations and strikes. Documents contained in this series illustrate the union's concern and preoccupation with debunking GE's extensive and heavily financed propaganda machinery in communities dominated by the corporation. The degree to which pattern bargaining--i.e. gains made by the autoworkers, and steelworkers--shaped the conference board's pre-bargaining sessions and formulation of demands is also highlighted in this series.

Al Hartnett's GE Conference Board sequence (covering the period 1951-1957) contains important correspondence and memoranda between John Callahan and Hartnett assessing the status of negotiations and conditions and membership data at various GE locals. File contents also include pristine copies of conference board meeting minutes, IUE-GE Negotiating Committee reports, and typescript drafts of circulars and releases covering the period from 1953-1958. A substantial amount of this material is duplicated in the preceding sequence, but was used as Hartnett's own conference board reference files.

This series is complemented by GE Conference Board material contained within the GE and Westinghouse Research Files series of the IUE Research and Education Department Subgroup and the more substantial President's Office Subgroup (RG-I) records. The latter houses the largest portion of Carey's correspondence, memoranda, and reports pertaining to IUE-GE Conference Board activities and GE labor-management relations for the period, 1950-1963. There is much overlap and duplication, however, in terms of IUE-GE Conference Board proceedings, Negotiating Committee reports, and releases and circulars.

Box No.	Folder No.	Folder Heading	Date Span
41 (R&E)	7	GE Commentator - Public Relations Bulletins (incomplete run)	1948-1952, 1956
	8	IUE-GE Relations - Circulars & Publicity Material	1948-1950
	9	Comparison - IUE-GE Contract Proposals	1948-1950
	10	Circular Letters on IUE-GE Labor Relations & Negotiations	Dec. 1949 - Jan. 1950
	11	Correspondence between Carey & GE	1949-1951
	12	General Electric Corp. - Study prepared by Robert R. Nathan Associates for IUE; Lasser Memorandum to Carey	1949
	13	Electrical Machinery & Equipment Industry - Statistical Analysis	Jan., 1950
	14	GE Affidavits from East Boston, MA re: Intimidation of workers at GE Lamp Works who refused to sign UE cards	Jan., 1950
	15	GE Summary Report	Mar. 29, 1950
	16	IUE-GE Conference Board - Summary of Contract Demands	Apr. 1, 1950
	17	GE-NLRB Cases - Decision & Press Release	Apr. 27, 1950
	18	GE Offer - Summary	June 27, 1950
	19	Carey-George H. Pfeif Correspondence - Economic & Bargaining Proposals	June-Aug., 1950
	20	IUE Economic Demands	July 27, 1950
	21	Tentative Final Draft - IUE-GE Contract	Aug. 1, 1950
	22	Summary Report to Conf. Bd.	Aug. 16, 1950
	23	Congressional Replies to Carey Letter and Analysis of GE Negotiations	Aug. 24-28, 1950
	24	Carey Statement - GE-IUE Conference	Aug. 29, 1950
	25	Boulware Letter to Carey - GE Proposals Outlined	Aug. 31, 1950
	26	GE Advertisements - copies for Carey	Sept.-Oct., 1950
	27	Resolution - IUE-GE Conference Board	Sept. 1, 1950
41 (R&E)	28	Transcript - Fed. Conciliation Panel Hearings IUE-GE Dispute	Sept. 7-15, 1950
	29	Transcript of US Mediation & Conciliation Hearings - IUE-CIO & GE	Sept. 12-15, 1950
	30	IUE-GE National Agreement - National Agreement, Memorandum of Agreement, & Wage Settlement	Sept. 15, 1950
	31	Letter - Benjamin Sigal to William Barron - regarding local union certification of IUE-GE National Agreement	Oct. 2, 1950
	32	Certification of GE-IUE National Agreement - tendered by IUE Locals	Sept.-Oct., 1950
	33	GE Contract Demands - Correspondence & Supplement	1950
	34	GE Locals - Negotiations - Research Material; Telegrams re: Strike votes	1950
	35-36	GE Negotiation Material - Correspondence, Memoranda, Releases, Demands	1950
	37	GE - Resume	1950
	38	IUE-GE Pension & Insurance Agreement	1950
	39	Preliminary Draft - Proposed Contract	1950
	40	Release - Background of GE-IUE Situation (GE Company Release)	1950
	41	GE News Releases - Employee Relations Newsletters & other Publicity Material	1950-1953
1	1-2	GE News Releases - Employee Relations Newsletters & other Publicity Material	1950-1953
	3	Boulware Speech before Society for Advancement of Management	Jan. 8, 1951
	4	GE Negotiations - Copies of GE Employee Relations Newsletters; Carey-Boulware Correspondence	Feb., 1951
	5	GE Conference Board Minutes & Negotiating Committee Minutes	May & July, 1951
1	6	Letters to Local Union Presidents re: Plan to bring GE & Westinghouse Locals bound to UE into IUE	July, 1951
	7	GE Conference Board - Minutes, Reports, Releases	Aug. 29, 1951
	8	Amendments to GE-IUE National Agreement proposed by IUE	1951?
	9	Canadian GE Membership Lists - Lists & Correspondence	1951
	10	GE Grievance Cases	1951-1952
	11	GE Locals - Replies regarding supplements re: Lay-off & Transfer Correspondence & copies of agreements	1951
	12	GE Negotiations - Copies of GE Employee Relations Newsletters; Clippings	1951
	13	GE Pension Plan - Correspondence	1951
	14-15	GE Wage Reopening	1951
	16	GE-IUE National Agreement - Draft	1951
	17-20	IUE-GE Relations - Circulars & Publicity Material	1951
	21	Newsletters - GE Locals	1951
	22	Television Script - Carey & Hartnett on GE	1951
	23	Television Script - Carey & Hartnett on GE & UE Situation	1951?
	24	GE Contracts	1951 & 1952
2	1	GE Conf. Bd. Meeting - Minutes, Carey Report	Feb. 21-22, 1952
	2	Negotiation Committee Report to GE Conf. Bd.; Wage Petition: GE & IUE to WSB; Photo: IUE GE Organizational HQ; List of GE Locals	May, 1952
	3	GE Conf. Bd. Meeting - Minutes	May 4, 1952
	4	GE Conf. Bd. Meeting - Minutes	Sept. 16, 1952
	5	GE Conf. Bd. Meeting - Minutes	Oct. 9, 1952
	6	GE Anti-Trust Cases - Memoranda, Cases Summaries	1952
2	7	GE Defense Fund - Telegram: Finnegan to Hartnett re: comments on failure of UE defense fund in address about IUE fund	1952
	8	GE Negotiations - Strike Threat - Bulletins, Clippings, IUE Resolution, Pamphlet & Poster	1952
	9-11	GE - Renewal of Negotiations - IUE Negotiating Committee Reports; Bulletins; Releases; Correspondence; GE Statements	1952
	12	GE Wage Reopener - Correspondence, Bulletins, Reports, WSB Petition - Compensation Adjustment	1952
	13-16	IUE-GE Relations - Circulars & Publicity Material	1952
	17	GE Conf. Bd. - Minutes - Carey & Hartnett Reports	Feb. 8, 1953
	18	Plant Dispersal: New Jersey - Bulletins, Correspondence, Clippings	Feb., 1953
	19	GE Conf. Bd. - Minutes	Apr. 17, 1953
	20	GE Conf. Bd. - Report of Negotiating Committee	June 16, 1953
	21	GE Conf. Bd. - Demands & Resolutions	Dec. 5-6, 1953
	22	GE Contract Negotiations - Memoranda, Bulletins, Minutes of Meetings, Correspondence	1953
	23-25	GE Negotiations - Revision of Contract - Correspondence, Bulletins, Contracts & Drafts, Conference Bd. Resolutions	1953
3	1-2	IUE-GE Relations - Circulars & Publicity Material	1953
	3	Federal Mediation & Conciliation Session with GE - Minutes	Aug. 3, 1954
	4-7	GE Negotiations - Negotiating Comm. Bulletins, Correspondence, Releases, Circulars & Publicity Material	1954
	8	GE Negotiations - Subversion Case - Bulletins, Releases - Conf. Bd.	1954
	9-13	IUE-GE Relations - Circulars & Publicity Material	1954
	14	Local 761 - Appliance Park GE, Louisville, KY - Local Union Publications, Clippings, Correspondence	1954-1955
3	15	GE Regional "Grass Roots" Conf., Schenectady, NY - Summary, Carey Address, Minutes	Jan. 22, 1955
	16	Erie, PA - GE Campaign - Clippings & Leaflets	1955
	17	Erie, PA & Holland, MI Campaigns - IUE Publications	1955
	18-19	Final Negotiations & Settlement of GE Contract - Minutes, Clippings, Bulletins, Contract Summaries	1955
4	1	GE Agreement - GE & IUE Offers & Agreements, Releases	1955
	2	GE Agreement - Publicity Materials encouraging support of agreement	1955
	3	GE Grass Roots Conferences - Summaries & Reports	1955
	4	GE Grass Roots Meetings - Louisville, KY & Schenectady, NY	1955
	5	GE Joe and His Family - Television Script	1955
	6-7	GE Negotiations - Clippings, GE & IUE Bulletins & Releases, Local Union Publications & Leaflets	1955
	8	GE Negotiations - Local Unions - Clippings, Correspondence, Local Union Publications	1955
	9	GE Publications	1955
	10	Interpretation and Application of the GE-IUE(CIO) National Agreement - GE Union Relations Services Dept. Handbook	1955
	11-13	IUE-GE Relations - Circulars & Publicity Material	1955
	14	Shelbyville, IN - GE Local - Clipping & Newsletter	1955
	15	IUE-GE Relations - Circulars & Publicity Material	1956
	16	IUE-GE Relations - Circulars & Publicity Material	1957
	17	GE Board of Directors Bylaws - Amendments	Apr. 23, 1958
	18	Employment Security - IUE Proposals to GE	Aug.-Sept., 1958
	19	IUE Bulletins on GE Savings & Security Program - GE Summary of Program	Aug. 27, 1958
4	20	Drafts of Letter to Mayors - Cities with IUE-GE Local Union	Sept., 1958
	21	Savings & Security Ballot Proposal by IUE	Sept., 1958
	22	IUD Analysis of GE Savings & Security Plan	Sept. 4, 1958
	23	Minutes - IUE-GE Negotiations, New York, NY	Sept. 10, 1958
	24	Statement Sent by IUE to Federal Mediation & Conciliation Service	Sept. 10, 1958
	25	Minutes (Drafts) of IUE-GE Negotiations	N.d. [1958?]
	26	Minutes (Draft) of IUE-GE Negotiations	Sept. 11, 1958
	27	Bulletins to Field Representatives	Sept. 13 & Oct. 10, 17, 1958
	28	Minutes (Draft) of IUE-GE Negotiations, New York, NY	Sept. 14, 1958
	29	Minutes (Draft) of IUE-GE Negotiations, New York, NY	Sept. 16, 1958
	30	Minutes (Draft) of IUE-GE Negotiations, New York, NY	Sept. 18, 1958
	31	Memorandum - Lasser to Carey - Ge Reopener	Sept. 18, 1958
	32	GE Statement - Company's position on IUE demands in Reopener Negotiations	Sept. 19, 1958
	33	GE Conf. Bd., Phila. PA - Excerpt from Meeting	Sept. 25, 1958
	34	IUE-GE Conf. Bd. - Reports, Resolutions, Bulletins	Sept. 25, 1958
	35	IUE Bulletins on GE Savings & Security Program	Oct., 1958
	36	Minutes (Draft) of IUE-GE Negotiations, New York, NY	Oct. 1, 1958
	37	IUE Statement on GE's "Farming Out of Work"	Oct. 9, 1958
	38	"The General Electric Hoax" - Statement by James B. Carey	Oct. 14, 1958
	39	NLRB - IUE Charge Against GE	Oct. & Nov., 1958
	40	"Strike Machinery" - Outline of Strike Organization	N.d.
	41	Employment Security Booklet - Program for GE Workers adopted by IUE-GE Conf. Bd.	1958
4	42	GE-Air Force Contract & IUE Strike - IUE charges of GE and Air Force collusion in strike negotiations	1958
	43	GE Decentralization Program - IUE Bulletin	1958
5	1-5	GE Negotiations - Correspondence, Bulletins, Releases, Memoranda, Research Material	1958
	6	GE Reopener - Draft Statements, Pamphlets, Correspondence	1958
	7	GE - Wabash, IN - Plant Closing - Correspondence	1958
	8	List of GE Locals	1958?
	9	Questions on GE Savings and Security Program	1958?
	10	Securities & Exchange Commission - IUE Bulletins & Releases, Copies of Correspondence	1958
	11	Strike Vote Information	1958
	12	IUE Press Releases	Aug. 1958 - May 1959
	13	News Releases from GE	Aug. 1958 - Jan. 1959
	14	Clippings on GE Negotiations	1958-1959
	15	Correspondence - GE Conf. Bd. - Circular Letters & Bulletins	1958-1959
	16	GE Documents on Savings & Security Plan	1958-1959
	17	Letter - Callahan to E.J. Ritter, GE Union Relations; Re: National Docket #3829, Local 161, Roanoke, VA	May 14, 1959
	18	Carey Statement to Senate Monopoly Sub-Comm., May 19, 1959; Letter: Carey to Cordiner, Apr. 29, 1959; Letter: P.D. Moore to Carey, May 7, 1959	Apr. & May, 1959
	19	Report - Negotiating Comm. to IUE-GE Conf. Bd., New York, NY	May 21, 1959
	20	GE Conf. Bd. - Press Release	May 23, 1959
	21	IUE-GE Conf. Bd. - Carey Report, Resolution, List of Delegates	Aug. 28, 1959
5	22	Ballot - "On to 1960" Program	1959
	23	Report - IUE-GE Negotiating Committee to IUE-GE Conf. Bd., New York, NY	May 25-26, 1960
	24	Transcript - Carey Press Conference, Philip Murray Bldg., Wash., D.C.	June 16, 1960
	25	"Statement of IUE-GE Negotiating Committee on Summary of Meetings with GE"	July 19 - Aug. 11, 1960
	26	Minutes - IUE-GE "National Level Negotiations"	July 19-21, 1960
	27	Minutes - IUE-GE "National Level Negotiations"	July 26-28, 1960
	28	Minutes - IUE-GE "National Level Negotiations"	Aug. 2-4, 1960
	29	Minutes - IUE-GE "National Level Negotiations"	Aug. 9-11, 1960
	30	GE Newsletter - The Complex Problems of Employment Security	Aug. 12, 1960
	31	Minutes - IUE-GE "National Level Negotiations"	Aug. 16, 1960
	32	"IUE Proposals for Modification of GE Insurance & Health Program"	Sept., 1960?
	33	"IUE Proposals for Modification of GE Pension Program"	Sept., 1960?
	34	Excerpt (Transcript) - Carey-Mahler Conversation on Speak-Up - WRCV-TV, Phila., PA	Sept. 1, 1960
	35	Carey Statement to Lynn, MA City Council	Sept. 7, 1960
	36	Minutes - IUE-GE "National Level Negotiations"	Sept. 8, 1960
	37	Report of IUE-GE Negotiating Committee	Sept. 13, 1960
	38	Callahan Statement - Re: Unfair Labor Practices	Sept. 20, 1960
	39	IUE Statements on GE Interference with Local Voting on Company Offer	Sept. 20 & 22, 1960
	40	Minutes - IUE-GE "National Level Negotiations"	Sept. 20-23, 1960
	41	GE Statement to IUE Negotiating Committee Summarizing the State of Negotiations	Sept. 21, 1960
5	42	"IUE Proposal on Insurance and Health"	Sept. 22, 1960
	43	"IUE Proposals for a Settlement"	Sept. 23 1960
	44	Letter - Carey to Cordiner - Re: Proposal to end dispute - arbitration	Sept. 26, 1960
	45	"Summary of Current Status of Bargaining Issues Between IUE and GE"	Sept. 26, 1960
	46	Minutes - IUE-GE "National Level Negotiations"	Sept. 26-Oct. 1, 1960
	47	IUE Press Releases	Sept. 27 & Oct. 11, 1960?
	48	Letter - P.D. Moore, GE Employee Relations, to Carey, Re: IUE Proposal - Arbitration - Ltr. of Sept. 26, 1960	Sept. 28, 1960
	49	Letter - P.D. Moore, GE Employee Relations, to Carey, Re: Request for Information	Sept. 28, 1960
	50	Telegram - Carey to Gov. Foster Furcolo of Massachusetts, Re: IUE-GE Dispute	Sept. 28, 1960
	51	Letter - P.D. Moore, GE Employee Relations to John A. Burke, Commissioner, Fed. Mediation & Conciliation Service	Sept. 26, 1960
	52	Report of IUE-GE Negotiating Committee to IUE-GE Conf. Bd., New York, NY	Sept. 30, 1960
6	1	Notes - Telephone Conversation - Carey & GE Vice. Pres. Jack S. Parker	Oct. 2, 1960
	2	Minutes - IUE-GE "National Level Negotiations"	Oct. 4, 7, 11, 13, 1960
	3	Extension Agreement - GE-IUE Truce	Oct. 5, 1960
	4	IUE-GE Strike Bulletin, Oct. 7, 1960; IUE-GE Negotiations Bulletin, Aug. 26, 1960	Aug. & Oct., 1960
	5	Newswire - Truce Proposed by IUE	Oct. 9, 1960
	6	Steves (Schenectady GE) Letter to Leo Jandreau (IUE Local 301)	Oct. 9, 1960
6	7	Carey Telegram to J.S. Parker, GE Vice-Pres. in charge of Union Relations	Oct. 12, 1960
	8	P.D. Moore (GE) Telegram to Carey	Oct. 12, 1960
	9	IUE-GE Negotiation Committee Meeting - Minutes	Oct. 13, 1960
	10	Carey Letter to Walter A. Maggiolo, Dir. of Mediation Activity, Fed. Mediation & Conciliation Service	Oct. 14, 1960
	11	Carey Statement to Local 301	Oct. 15, 1960
	12	Minutes - IUE-GE "National Level Negotiations"	Oct. 17-19, 1960
	13	Report of IUE-GE Negotiating Committee to IUE-GE Conf. Bd., New York, NY	Oct. 18, 1960
	14	Minutes - IUE-GE "National Level Negotiations"	Oct. 21-22, 1960
	15	Letter - P.D. Moore (Manager, GE Employee Relations) to Carey & Callahan, Re: Strike Settlement & Resumption of Work	Oct. 22, 1960
	16	GE Local Publications	1960
	17	GE Strike Material - GE Strike Bulletin, Circulars, Releases, Memoranda	1960
	18	Mailing List - Presidents of GE Local Unions	N.d. [1960?]
	19	NLRB - GE-IUE - IUE Reply Brief	1962
	20	Minutes - IUE-GE Negotiations	Aug. 5, 1963
	21	Proposals to GE by IUE-GE Negotiating Committee	Aug. 5, 1963
	22	"IUE General Statement on 1963 IUE-GE Negotiations"; "Rules Governing Directly Affiliated Local Unions"	Aug. 5, 1963
	23	Minutes - IUE-GE Negotiations & IUE-GE Negotiations Bulletins	Aug. 6, 1963
	24	Minutes - IUE-GE Negotiations	Aug. 7, 1963
	25	Minutes & Bulletins - IUE-GE Negotiations	Aug. 8, 1963
	26	Minutes - IUE-GE Negotiations	Aug. 13-14, 1963
	27	Minutes & Bulletin - IUE-GE Negotiations	Aug. 15, 1963
6	28	Minutes - IUE-GE Negotiations	Aug. 20-22, 1963
	29	Minutes - IUE-GE Negotiations	Aug. 27-29, 1963
	30	Minutes - IUE-GE Negotiations	Sept. 3-5, 1963
	31	Minutes - IUE-GE Negotiations - GE Company Bulletin	Sept. 10, 1963
	32	Minutes & Bulletin- IUE-GE Negotiations	Sept. 11, 1963
	33	Minutes - IUE-GE Negotiations; IUE Statement on Wages, Living Costs & Productivity in G3; Drafts of Agreement Amendments; Bulletin	Sept. 12-13, 1963
	34	Minutes - IUE-GE Negotiations - Drafts of Agreement; Bulletins	Sept. 17-20, 1963

2. WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CORPORATION CONFERENCE BOARD & NEGOTIATIONS FILES , Date Span: 1939- 1956, Bulk Date: 1950–1955, 2.0 LN.FT.

Organized chronologically by year and arranged alphabetically within yearly grouping.

Consists of a variety of historical and evidential material documenting IUE-Westinghouse Conference Board activities and negotiations with Westinghouse corporate management. This series complements and duplicates to some degree, the more definitive Westinghouse Conference Board & Negotiations records housed as a separate series within the Secretary-Treasurer's (Hartnett) Office Sub-Group, RG-1. Additional Westinghouse Conference Board Records can also be found within the IUE Legal Department Records, RG-1, General Files of Sigal. Dating from 1950- 1955, the records cover the early and formative period of the union's collective bargaining relationship with the electrical conglomerate. That bargaining relationship, though frequently contentious, nevertheless established a pattern and standard for wages, pension, health, and insurance agreements, and work-related issues covering 55,000 electrical workers. Record contents were generated by Conference Board participants, various IUE officers, and Westinghouse corporate managers. Correspondents include: IUE-Westinghouse Conference Board Chairmen, Michael Fitzpatrick (1950-52), Robert Nellis (1950-56); James B. Carey, Al Hartnett, David Lasser, Benjamin Sigal, and Joseph Swire; and Westinghouse Corporation President Gwilym Price, and Vice-President for Labor Relations, Robert Blasier.

Items include: proceedings and minutes of IUE-Westinghouse Conference Board meetings; reports, circular letters, and bulletins issued by the IUE-Westinghouse Negotiating Committee; employer newsletters and releases; research data on IUE organization, membership, and strike finances; analyses of Westinghouse Corporation's financial profile; agreements, contract proposals, and local supplements; summaries and transcripts of sessions of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Services; correspondence, memoranda, and telegrams generated and received by IUE officers and Westinghouse management; transcripts of Carey statements and addresses on IUE contract demands and Westinghouse labor policies; correspondence and reports filed by IUE Field Representatives concerning local union support (strike contribution fund) for the nation-wide Westinghouse strike, 1955-56.

The Westinghouse Conference Board records chronicle the process by which the IUE leadership, research staff, Westinghouse Negotiating Committee, and Conference Board Chairmen formulated and refined the union's bargaining demands. Correspondence and memoranda exchanged between the IUE Conference Board Chairmen and IUE officers illustrate the intense publicity and educational efforts to forge a consensus among IUE-Westinghouse Conference Board delegates representing locals within the Westinghouse chain. Although early IUE-Westinghouse (1950-52) negotiations were generally less adversarial than those conducted with GE, friction soon resulted when the corporation concluded substandard wage agreements and work rules with the UE and sought to impose them upon IUE membership. Relations further deteriorated in 1951 when Westinghouse initiated lockouts at Bowling Green, Kentucky (refusing to extend coverage of the national contract to a new IUE local) and Cheektowaga, NY.

The IUE-Westinghouse Conference Board files and reports issued by the union's Westinghouse Negotiation Committee trace the IUE's aggressive campaign for: across-the board wage increases; establishment of an inequity fund to ameliorate regional wage differentials; cost of living adjustments; equal pay provisions; employer-financed health, insurance, and pension plans; the strengthening of seniority, grievance, and maintenance of membership clauses in contracts; and more liberal policies regarding vacations and holidays. Employment security issues figured prominently in the 1954 round of negotiations as the union bore the brunt of lay-offs attributed to a variety of factors--automation and technological displacement, plant relocation, and economic recession. As correctives, the IUE-Westinghouse Conference Board included among its ten point program proposals for a corporate minimum wage ($1.25 per hour) and a guaranteed annual wage.

There is substantial material relating to the issues which ignited the 156 day nationwide Westinghouse Strike of 1955-56. Management's unilateral demand for a multi-year pact (five years with a no-strike pledge) and the imposition of time-study schedules covering day workers under its "Industrial Engineering Control Program," galvanized the IUE to strike action. Included among the IUE-Westinghouse Conference Board & Negotiations Files are memoranda and correspondence relating to local union conditions during the strike. There is also an insightful survey of workers attitudes (with inclusive quotes) towards Westinghouse's contract offer of November 1955 involving Feeder and Service Employees at an unidentified plant.

Box No.	Folder No.	Folder Heading	Date Span
6	35	Westinghouse Corp. - Study prepared by Robert R. Nathan Associates for IUE	1939-1949
	36	Minutes - Westinghouse Conf. Bd., Pittsburgh, PA	Apr. 1, 1950
	37	Partial Agreement - Westinghouse-IUE	July 14, 1950
	38	Economic Demands of the IUE-CIO	July 26, 1950
	39	Agreement - Westinghouse-IUE	Oct. 1, 1950
	40	Proposed Agreements - Westinghouse-IUE	Oct., 1950
	41	NLRB Decisions - Westinghouse–IUE - Contested UE/IUE Representation Elections	1950
	42	"Resume" - Westinghouse Elec. Corp. - Report regarding possible wage increases	N.d. [1950?]
	43-44	Westinghouse Electric Corp. Negotiations - Drafts of Agreement; Bulletins; Correspondence; Memoranda	1950
	45	Westinghouse Corp. - Summary Report	1950
	46	Correspondence re: Authorization Cards & Union Shops	Dec., 1950 - Apr., 1951
	47	Westinghouse Conf. Bd. Meeting - Minutes - Draft & Corrections	Apr. 21, 1951
	48	Letter - Price (Pres., Westinghouse) to Employees regarding proposed wage increase	May 18, 1951
	49	Open Letter to Westinghouse	May 25, 1951
	50	Ratification Notices of Westinghouse Supplement	June, 1951
	51	WSB Case No. N 6323 - Correspondence, Memoranda, Supplement to Westinghouse–IUE Agreement - Re: General Wage Increase	June, 1951
	52	Minutes - Westinghouse Negotiating Committee & Conference Board	July 5-6, 1951
7	1	Westinghouse Conf. Bd. Meetings - Minutes, Memoranda, Data on Locals	July, 1951
7	2	Westinghouse Conf. Bd. - Reports, Minutes	Oct., 1951
	3	Cheektowaga (Buffalo) Dispute - IUE Reports, Local Supplements to Agreement, Strike Settlement Agreement, Carey Settlement	Nov.-Dec., 1951
	4	Transcript - Federal Mediation & Conciliation Service Hearing - IUE–Westinghouse Dispute - Bowling Green Westinghouse Lockout	Dec. 4, 1951
	5	Transcript - Federal Mediation & Conciliation Service Hearing - IUE–Westinghouse Dispute - Cheektowaga (Buffalo) Westinghouse Strike	Dec. 6-13, 1951
	6	Correspondence with Locals - re: bringing UE & IBEW Westinghouse Locals into IUE	1951
	7	Federal Mediation & Conciliation Service - Telegrams & Correspondence, IUE Reports - re: Bowling Green & Buffalo Disputes	1951
	8	Statement to WSB by IUE for approval of wage increase negotiated with Westinghouse	1951?
	9	Wage Reopening Negotiations - Correspondence, Memoranda, Bulletins, Reports, Resolutions	1951
	10	Westinghouse Defense Fund - Tables & Data, Circular Letters, Memoranda	1951
	11	Westinghouse Local Supplements - Buffalo; Pittsburgh; Mansfield, OH; Lima, OH	1951
	12	Westinghouse Stands Indicted - IUE accuses Westinghouse of unfair labor practices	N.d. [1951?]
	13	Bowling Green, KY Lockout - Circular letters to Congressmen & IUE Locals, IUE Report, Carey Statement, Hearing Transcripts	1951-1952
	14-15	Negotiations on Westinghouse Insurance, Pension Plans, & Wages	1951-1952
	16	Westinghouse Conf. Bd. - Annual Report	1951-1952
	17	WSB Case No. N-15,126 - Correspondence, IUE Petition & Statements - re: General wage increase	1951-1952
7	18	Westinghouse - Correspondence - re: Stuart letter to Southern Congressmen	Jan.-Mar., 1952
	19	Westinghouse IUE District 4 Meetings - Minutes, Correspondence	Jan.-May, 1952
	20	Report to Westinghouse Conf. Bd. by Carey - New York, NY	Feb. 25-26, 1952
	21-22	Westinghouse Conf. Bd. Meeting, Belmont Plaza Hotel - Minutes & Resolutions	Feb. 25-26, 1952
	23	Westinghouse - Michael Fitzpatrick - Correspondence, Memoranda, Notes by Westinghouse Conf. Bd. Chairman	Feb., 1952
	24	Negotiations - Westinghouse - Notes, Correspondence, Supplements	Apr.-May, 1952
	25	Westinghouse Conf. Bd. Meeting - Minutes, Taft Hotel, New York, NY	May 16, 1952
	26-27	Westinghouse Renewal - Negotiations Material	1952
	28	Supplements to Westinghouse Pension & Insurance Agreement	1952-1953
	29	WSB Case No. N-20739 - Correspondence, Memoranda, IUE Petition & Statement - re: Cost of Living Adjustments, General Increases & Holidays	1952-1953
	30	Westinghouse Conf. Bd. Meetings - Minutes, Reports, Rules & Procedures	Apr.-Aug., 1953
8	1	Westinghouse - Grievance Problems	1953
	2	Plant Removal - from Essington, PA to Kansas City	1953-1954
	3	Westinghouse Conf. Bd. Meeting - Minutes, Resolutions, Agenda	Jan. 4-5, 1954
	4	Westinghouse Conf. Bd. Meeting - Minutes, Correspondence	Feb. 20, 1954
	5	Westinghouse - Negotiations & Strikes - Telegrams, Circular Letters	July-Sept., 1954
	6	Carey Circular Letter on Westinghouse Strike	Oct., 1955
	7	Carey Letter to Westinghouse Bd. of Directors - Arbitration Plan to Handle Grievances	Oct.-Nov., 1955
8	8	Comments on Westinghouse Proposed Contract - Excerpted comments & survey of Westinghouse Feeder & Service employees on proposed five year contract	Nov. 1, 1955
	9-10	Westinghouse Offer to IUE - Wage Proposal, Modification, Memoranda	June, 1955 - Feb. 1956
	11	Circulars - Westinghouse Proposals & Strikes - Drafts & Releases - Includes Carey schedule for attending Westinghouse negotiations	Oct., 1955 - Jan., 1956
	12	IBEW Settlement with Westinghouse	Jan. 9, 1956
	13	Bulletins - Westinghouse Strike at Metuchin Local 401 - Clipping & Bulletins	Jan. 16-17, 1956
	14	Federal Mediation & Conciliation Service Intervention in Westinghouse Strike - Circulars, Report of Fact-Finding Board	Jan.-Mar, 1956
	15	Westinghouse Conf. Bd. - Reports & Recommendations	Mar. 7, 1956
	16	Westinghouse - Draft of Contract & Strike Settlement	Mar. 12, 1956
	17	Carey - Statements on Strike Settlement - Release & TV Script	Mar. 20, 26, 1956
	18	Report on Westinghouse Time Standards	Sept. 22, 1956

3. GM CONFERENCE BOARD & NEGOTIATIONS FILES , Date Span: 1939–1958, Bulk Date: 1950-1958, 0.85 LN.FT.

Organized chronologically by year and arranged alphabetically within yearly grouping.

The IUE-GM Conference Board & Negotiation series chronicles the union's complex negotiations and bargaining relationship with the automobile giant during the 1950's. GM became the first major chain corporation to conclude a national agreement with the IUE in May 1950. During the period 1950-1958, the union negotiated four national contracts with GM covering 30,000 IUE members in six locals. These locals included various GM subsidiaries: Delco-Remy Battery, (Local 416, New Brunswick, NJ); Delco Appliance, (Local 509, Rochester, NY); Delco Products (Local 755, Dayton, Ohio); Delco Radio (Local 1155, Chicago, Illinois); Packard Electric Company, (Local 717, Warren, Ohio); and Frigidaire (Local 801, Dayton, Ohio). Though covered by the national IUE-GM contract, GM locals negotiated supplemental agreements to improve local plant conditions.

Among the records contained in the series are minutes, correspondence, and memoranda relating to IUE-GM Conference Board meetings (1953-54, 1958); reports, releases, and correspondence issued by the IUE-GM Negotiating Committee; correspondence, memoranda, and telegrams generated and received by IUE-GM Conference Board Chairmen, E.J. Kraft, GM Conference Board Secretary, Homer C. Pierce, and various IUE officers and department heads--James B. Carey, Al Hartnett, David Lasser, and Benjamin Sigal. Though small in quantity, the series contains substantive minutes of the 1958 IUE-GM negotiations sessions. Other negotiations-related records include union demands and corporate counter proposals; research data on wage patterns and GM profits; corporate generated publicity releases and newsletters (1956-58); and correspondence sent and received by Louis G. Seaton, GM's Director for Labor Relations.

The series highlights the IUE's struggle to advance wages, strengthen health, insurance, and pension plans, and refine grievance and union security provisions covered by the national agreements of 1950, 1953, 1955, and 1958. A dominant issue throughout the decade involved union efforts to prod GM to adopt employment security provisions as safeguards to cyclical recessions and layoffs during the 1950's. Reports and statements made by Carey to the Conference Board highlight the union's push for better production planning by management to ameliorate layoffs. Following the lead of the UAW, the IUE formulated contractual demands for the implementation of a minimum security wage and guaranteed annual wage. GM's rejection of these proposals prompted the IUE to devise a Supplemental Unemployment Benefits plan to provide a safety net for workers once state unemployment compensation had been exhausted. GM's efforts to discredit the SUB plan and substitute its own "Income Security Plan," proved a central issue during the 1958 contract talks. There are also files concerning legal issues in Ohio which prevented adoption of the SUB plan, and IUE-GM efforts to formulate an alternative plan. Factionalism within IUE Locals 755 and 801 (Dayton, Ohio) concerning support for GM's Income Security plans is documented in one file.

This series complements the more extensive IUE-GM Conference Board & Negotiations material deposited within the President's Office, Secretary-Treasurer's Office, and Legal Department Subgroups. Collectively, these subgroups provide a comprehensive and definitive overview of the IUE-GM collective bargaining relationship.

Box No.	Folder No.	Folder Heading	Date Span
8	19	General Motors Corp. - Study prepared by Robert R. Nathan Associates for IUE	1939-1949
	20	GM - Economic Demands - GM Conf. Bd.	Apr. 2, 1950
	21	GM - IUE-GM National Agreement	May 29, 1950
	22	GM - Contract Proposals & Modifications	1950
	23	GM - Pension & Insurance Agreements & Plans	1950
	24	GM - Resume of GM, Financial Profile	N.d. [1950?]
	25-26	Minutes - IUE-GM Conf. Bd. Mtgs.	Feb.-May, 1953
	27	GM - IUE-GE Conf. Bd. Material - Includes report by Carey	1954
	28	GM - Negotiations - Correspondence, Releases, Circulars	1955
	29	GM - Pension, Insurance, Supplemental Benefits - Plans, Exhibit Material	1955
	30	GM UAW-CIO Collective Bargaining Program - Includes 1950 GM-UAW Agreement	1955
	31	GM - Conf. Bd. Mtgs. - Minutes, Correspondence, Data	1956-1957
9	1-2	GM - Publicity Releases	1956-1958
	3	GM - Annual Report	1957
	4	GM - IUE-GM Conf. Bd. Mtg.. - Includes Carey Report on SUB Situation	Jan. 9, 1958
	5	GM - Factionalism in IUE Locals 755 & 801 (Dayton, OH)	Jan. 19, 1958
	6	GM - Carey Report to GM Conf. Bd.	Feb., 1958
	7-8	Minutes - IUE-GM National Negotiations	Apr.-June, 1958
	9	GM-IUE Releases & Circulars - Contract Negotiations	May-Aug., 1958
	10-11	Minutes - IUE-GM National Negotiations	Aug.-Oct., 1958
	12	GM - Synopsis of GM Contract Proposal	Sept. 15, 1958
	13	GM - Highlights of National Agreement	Oct., 1958

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4. SUBSIDIARY CONFERENCE BOARDS FILES , Date Span: 1951-1963, Bulk Date: 1951-1958, 0.45 LN.FT.

Organized alphabetically by industry and arranged chronologically therein.

Contains a small quantity of supplemental Conference Board documents and material generated by the following IUE-designated industry and occupational sectors--Lamp Workers, Professional, Technical, and Salaried Workers, and Radio, T.V. and Parts. Much of the series consists of minutes, resolutions, and reports pertaining to sporadic IUE Radio, T.V., and Parts Conference Board meetings between 1951 to 1963. In addition, there are analytical reports generated by James B. Carey and Research Director, David Lasser, assessing issues and problems within each of the enumerated industries. In the Radio, T.V., and Parts industry, the issue of sustained layoffs and unemployment--owing to the government's materials allocation programs and restrictive consumer credit policies--is a predominant theme. Economic recessions, technological displacement, and plant relocation to non-union regions, frustrated IUE efforts to achieve higher wages and fringe benefits comparable to other industrial sectors. Also contained in the series are scattered issues of Salaried Slants, the bulletin for the IUE Professional, Technical, and Salaried Workers. Resolutions adopted in support of the 1954 Philco strike can also be found within this segment of the series.

Box No.	Folder No.	Folder Heading	Date Span
9	14	Lamp Industries - Conferences - Circulars, Minutes, Reports	1954-1955
	15	Lamp Conference - Cincinnati - Hartnett Report to Lamp Workers' Council & Releases	Feb. 23, 1957
	16	Professional, Technical and Salaried Conf. Bd. - Salaried Slants Bulletin	1953-1954
	17	Professional, Technical and Salaried Conf. Bd. Mtgs. - Highlights & Resolutions	May 22-24, 1954
	18	Radio, TV and Parts Conf. Bd. - Resolutions and Reports	Nov. 1950 - May 1951
	19	Radio, TV and Parts Conf. Bd. Mtg. - Correspondence, Reports, Resolutions (Erie, PA)	Feb. 3-4, 1951
	20	Radio, TV and Parts Conf. Bd. - Arrangements and Agenda - Correspondence in re agenda for meeting in May at the Palmer House, Chicago	Apr. 20, 1951
	21	Radio, TV and Parts Conf. Bd. Mtg. - Correspondence, Arrangements, Report	Aug. 6-7, 1951
	22	Radio, TV and Parts Conf. Bd. - Reports and Resolutions (Indianapolis, IN)	Nov. 17-18, 1951
	23	Radio, TV and Parts Conf. Bd. - Carey Report, Minutes	Feb. 23-25, 1952
	24	Radio, TV and Parts Conf. Bd. Mtg. - Resolutions, Carey Reports	Feb. 17-18, 1954
	25	Radio, TV and Parts Conf. Bd. Mtg. - Report by David Lasser, IUE Research Director	June 21-23, 1956
	26	Radio, TV and Parts Conf. Bd. Mtg. - Report to Conf. Bd. by Chairperson Mary E. Callahan	Nov. 14-15, 1961
	27	Radio, TV and Parts Conf. Bd. Mtg. - Carey Report to Conf. Bd.	June 6, 1962
	28	Radio, TV and Parts Conf. Bd. Mtg. - Synopsis Report filed by Conf. Bd. Chairperson Mary E. Callahan	May 15-16, 1963