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Size | 50.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 13,325 items) |
Abstract | Paul Newman Guthrie served as vice-chair of Region IV of the National War Labor Board during World War II, was a member of numerous presidential emergency boards in railroad and airline labor disputes in the 1950s and 1960s, served as an arbitrator in labor-management disputes in many industries, and served on the faculty of the School of Business Administration, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1946-1974. The collection chiefly consists of case files, transcripts of hearings, exhibits, arbitrators' decisions, notes, correspondence, and other material concerning arbitration of disputes between labor and management in the railroad, airline, telecommunications, electric, textile, tire and rubber, and other industries. Materials include files for 225 cases that came before the National War Labor Board (Region IV, covering the southeastern United States). All other files are arranged by industry and then by companies involved in disputes. |
Creator | Guthrie, Paul Newman, 1903- |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: Southern Historical Collection staff, May 1986
Encoded by: Joseph Nicholson, February 2006
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1903 | Paul Newman Guthrie born 3 December in Greene County, Tenn., one of five children of William Lawson and Sally L. (Berry) Guthrie. |
1926 | B.A., University of Tennessee |
1932 | B.D., Union Theological Seminary |
1932 | M.A., Columbia University |
1935-1942 | Taught at Randolph-Macon Women's College |
1940 | Co-author, The Path I Trod (Columbia University Press) |
1943-1944 | Director, Disputes Division, Region IV, National War Labor Board, Atlanta |
1944-1946 | Vice-chair and public member, Region IV National War Labor Board |
1945 | Chair, Southern Textile Commission |
1946 | Ph.D., Columbia University; director, Wage Stablization Division, National Wage Stabilization Board; joined faculty of University of North Carolina School of Business Administration (teaching specialties: labor economics, industrial relations) |
1950- | Referee for the National Railroad Adjustment Board; member of numerous presidential emergency boards in railroad and airline labor disputes; member, National Academy of Arbitrators |
1951-1952 | One of three public members of Wage Stabilization Board, Region IV; |
1952 | One of six public members, Federal Wage Stabilization Board |
1957 | President, National Academy of Arbitrators |
1963 | One of three members of an emergency board to decide a dispute between Eastern Airlines and the Flight Engineers International Association; served on emergency board to make recommendations for settlement of dispute between the Florida East Coast Railway and eleven non-operating unions |
1969 | Head, mediation panel, food workers' strike, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
1974 | Retired as professor of economics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
The collection chiefly consists of labor arbitrator and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill professor Paul Newman Guthrie's case files, transcripts of hearings, exhibits, arbitrators' decisions, notes, correspondence, and other material concerning arbitrations of disputes between labor and management in the railroad industry, airline industry, telecommunications industry, electric industry, textile industry, tire industry and rubber industry, and other industries. Materials include files for 225 cases that came before the National War Labor Board (Region IV, covering the southeastern United States). All other files are arranged by industry and then by companies involved in disputes.
Back to TopAbout 225 case files (arranged alphabetically by name of company), minutes of weekly Board meetings (arranged chronologically), and "Directive Orders" of the Board (arranged alphabetically by name of company). Note: Region IV consisted of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Virginia, Mississippi, and Florida.
Note that folders 1-4 have been digitized.
Exhibits, dockets, adjustments, and awards concerning disputes, arbitrated by Paul Guthrie, between management and unions of railroad employees. Most of this material is arranged by company, then loosely by case. The remainder is unarranged.
Unions represented include Switchmen Union of North America, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Order of Railroad Conductors and Brakemen, and Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks. Railroads represented are principally those noted below.
Arrangement: alphabetical by company.
Transcripts of hearings, exhibits, briefs, decisions, drafts of opinions, correspondence, and notes relating to disputes between various airlines and labor organizations.
Arrangement: alphabetical by company.
Exhibits, transcripts of hearings, notes, correspondence, reports, and other material. Companies included are Carolina Telephone and Telegraph, Central Telephone Company, Collins Radio Company, Electronic Communication, Inc., General Telephone Company of Kentucky, Heavi Duty Electric Company, Southern Bell, Southwestwern Bell, Western Electric, Western Union, and miscellaneous telephone companies.
Box 28-30
Box 28Box 29Box 30 |
Telecommunications Industry |
Arrangement: alphabetical by company.
Exhibits, transcripts of hearings, notes, correspondence, reports, and other material. Companies included are Alabama Power Company, Applalachian Power Company, AVCO Corporation, CTS of Asheville, Inc., General Electric, Tennessee Valley Authority, Virginia Electrical and Power Company, and Westinghouse Electric Company.
Box 31-33
Box 31Box 32Box 33 |
Electric Industry |
Arrangement: alphabetical by company.
Exhibits, transcripts of hearings, notes, correspondence, reports, and other material. Companies represented are Aleo Manufacturing Company, American Enka Company, Bemis Brothers Bag Company, Borden Manufacturing Company, Brookford Mills, Caledonia Mills, Celanese Fibers Company, Chatham Mills, Clifton Manufacturing Company, Cone Mills, Consolidated Textile Company, Inc., Craddock Terry Shoe Corporation, Erwin Mills, Inc., Fieldcrest Mills, Hampton Mills of Virginia, Henderson Cotton Mills, Highland Cotton Mills, Kendall Company, Pacific Mills, Puritan Mills, Royle and Pilkington Company, Sayles Biltmore Bleacheries, Inc., Spartan Mills, Spray Cotton Mills, Startes Mills, and Tri State Container Corporation.
Box 34-36
Box 34Box 35Box 36 |
Textile Industry |
Transcripts of hearings, umpire decisions, correspondence, Guthrie's notes, and other types of material relating to disputes between the United Rubber, Cork, Linoleum, and Plastic Workers of America and both Firestone Tire and Rubber Company and Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company.
Box 37-40
Box 37Box 38Box 39Box 40 |
Transcripts of hearings, Firestone (Memphis, Tennessee plant/URCLPWA, 1952-1956, 1965-1966 |
Box 37Box 38Box 39Box 40 |
Transcripts of hearings, Firestone (Pottstown), Pennsylvania plant)/URCLPWA, 1955-1956 |
Box 37Box 38Box 39Box 40 |
Umpire decisions, Goodyear (plants in Gadsden, Alabama; Akron, Ohio; Jackson, Michigan; and other locations)/URCLPWA, 1945-1955 |
Box 37Box 38Box 39Box 40 |
Other Goodyear files |
Arrangement: alphabetical by company.
Exhibits, transcripts of hearings, notes, correspondence, reports, and other material documenting Guthrie's role as a labor arbitrator in various industries.
Arrangement: alphabetical by company.
Companies included are Allied Chemical Company, American Zinc Company, Can Chemical Company, American Cyanamid Company, Hercules Powder Company, International Minerals and Chemical Corporation, and Witco Chemical Company.
Box 41 |
Chemical Industry |
Arrangement: alphabetical by company.
Companies included are American Cyanamid Company, ARCO, Inc., Arnold Air Force Station, AVCO Corporation, Combustion Engineering Company, Black Diamond Enterprises, General Motors, Georgia Kraft Company, Limitorque Corporation, Lockheed Georgia Corporation, Monroe International, Wright Machinery Company, and Texas Instruments Corporation.
Box 42 |
Machinery and Related Industries |
Arrangement: alphabetical by company.
Companies included are Armstrong Cork Company, Celanese Fibers Company, Crane Company, the Mead Corporation, F. S. Royster Guano Company, Virginia Chemical Company, and Woodward Iron Company.
Box 42 |
Mineral Industry |
Arrangement: alphabetical by company.
Companies included are Atlanta Newspapers, Inc., Newspaper Printing Corporation, Norfolk Newspapers, Inc., News and Observer (Raleigh, N.C.), and Southeastern Newspapers Corporation.
Box 43 |
Newspaper Industry |
Arrangement: alphabetical by company.
Companies included are American Oil Company, General Chemical Company, Hercules, Inc., Piedmont Natural Gas, Texaco, Inc., and United Fuel Gas Company.
Box 44 |
Petroleum Industry |
Arrangement: alphabetical by company.
Companies included are Albemarle Paper Manufacturing Company, Bird and Son, Inc., Bowaters Southern Paper Company, Champion Paper Company, Chesapeake Corporation, Eastex Packaging, Inc., Gulf States, Hercules, Inc., Hudson Pulp and Paper, Ideal Corrugated Box Company, International Paper Company, Johns Manville Products Corporation, Kraft Bag Corporation, Mead Corporation, North Carolina Pulp and Paper, Rayonier Incorporated, Riegal Paper Corporation, Southern Paperboard Corporation, West Virginia Pulp and Paper, and Weyerhauser Company.
Box 44-45
Box 44Box 45 |
Paper Industry |
Arrangement: alphabetical by company.
Companies included are Air Reduction Sales Company, Atkins Saw Division of Nicholson File Company, Bristol Iron and Steel Works, Chattanooga Coke and Chemicals, Climatrol Industries, Inc., Dave Steel Company, Grinnell Corporation, International Nickel Company, Kentucky Electronics, McGraw Edison Company, Mueller Company, Pasco Steel Corporation, Reynolds Metals Company, Robertshaw Fulton Controls Company, Roanoke Iron and Bridge Works, Stokely Vancamp, Inc., Tennala Pipe Company, Tennessee Coal and Iron Division of United States Steel Corporation, Wheland Foundery, and Yale and Towne, Inc.
Box 45-46
Box 45Box 46 |
Steel Industry |
Arrangement: alphabetical by company.
Companies included are A. G. Boone Company, Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, Automatic Sprinkler Corporation, Blue Ridge Transfer Company, Carolina Coach Arbitration, Chattanooga Transfer and Warehousemen's Association, Charlotte City Coach Lines, Inc., Enterprise Wheel and Car Corporation, General American Transportation Corporation, Greyhound, Johns Rogers Engine Rebuilders, Mack Truck, Smith's Transfer Corporation, and Sealtest Foods.
Box 47 |
Transportation Industry |
Arrangement: alphabetical by company.
Companies included are ACME Boot Company, Inc., Aladdin Industries, American Timber Company, American Tobacco Company, Babcock and Wilcox Company, Ball Corporation, Borg Warner Corporation, Brunswick Corporation, Cannon, Inc., Colonial Stores, Continental Can Corporation, Empire Furniture Company, Fruehauf Trailer, A. P. Juillard and Company, Inc., Kroger Company, Magnavox Company of Tennessee, Masonite Corporation, U. S. Navy Public Works Center, North American Rockwell Corporation, Owens-Illinois, Inc., Pittsburg Plate Glass Company, Puerto Rico Paper Industry, Puerto Rico Rubber Industry, Pulaski Rubber Company, RCA Service Company, Rich's Company, Reynold Metals Company, John B. Salterine Company, Star Band Company, Inc., Supak and Sons Manufacturing Corporation, Tamiami Trail Tours, Ward Baking Company, and Watson Seafood and Poultry Company.
Box 48-49
Box 48Box 49 |
Miscellaneous Companies |
Arrangement: chronological.
Correspondence between Guthrie and various companies and unions related to labor management disputes.
Box 49 |
Miscellaneous Correspondence |
Personal and professional correspondence, financial material, and other items that relate to Guthrie's work as an arbitrator, but do not pertain to specific labor disputes.
Box 50 |
Other Material |