These include: American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born; American Council on Public Affairs; Atlantic Charter League; J.M. Artman, editor of "The American Citizen"; Representative Thomas R. Amlie; Thurman Arnold, Department of Justice (concerning Frank B. Kellogg statement about the anti-trust Sherman Act); and John B. Abel.

Correspondents include: Alfred L. Bernheim, The Labor Bureau; A.A. Berle banking proposal; Rabbi Barnett R. Brickner, Social Justice Commission; Kent Baker, editor of "Sphere" with article sent to him by Lauck, "Industrial Reconstruction" attached; David Burdett (conventional economics versus social economics); and G.P. Bronisch, Loyal Americans of German Descent

Correspondents and topics include: Lauck memorandum to Charles H. Chase, (in light of the prospect of a lengthy war and its impact on social and economic reform) informing him of his decision to drastically reduce expenditures by having only one employee to maintain the office (1942); "Strife and the Worker" proofs by John F. Cronin; Helen A. Cole, "The Liberal Worker"; W.S. Clement and his "The Ben Franklin Plan"; Ben V. Cohen, National Power Policy Committee; and the Council for Social Action, Ferry L. Platt, Jr. concerning farm issues.

Correspondents and topics include: Dr. Paul H. Douglas, University of Chicago; Hardy C. Dillard, Institute of Public Affairs, including a letter from John L. Newcomb; Frederic A. Delano, Chairman National Resources Advisory Committee; and a letter to John Dewey.

Correspondents and topics include: Arthur Eggleston, San Francisco Chronicle; Peter Edson, NEA Service; A.E. Edwards concerning the Wagner Labor Relations Act; J.G. Frain; and Charles Flato.

Correspondents and topics include: Alfred C. Gaunt, including "Smaller Business Lifts Its Eyes"; Toshi Go, Foreign Affairs Association of Japan; and A.E. Grassby, Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Correspondents and topics include: Hubert Herring; Sidney Hillman; Fred S. Hall concerning the Industrial Expansion Act (multiple letters); B.W. Huebsch, The Viking Press, and his concern over the pamphlet "A New Social Order"; S.L. Hoover and his question about the Keller Bill and the Association; John Edgar Hoover; and F.J. Hall, editor of "The United States News" about numbers of unemployed and other issues (multiple letters).

Correspondents and topics include: Meyer Jacobstein about the Reconstruction Act; and Paul Kellogg.

Correspondence includes: letters to Robert M. LaFollette, Jr.; League for Abundance: League for Industrial Democracy; Harold Loeb; and Dr. Jack Levin.

Correspondents and topics include: secretary of Attorney General Frank Murphy; Darwin J. Meserole, National Unemployment League; Francis P. Miller; Emily Fogg Mead; Homer L. Mead; Lewis E. Meyers; Judge Julian W. Mack; Bishop Francis J. McConnell; George F. Milton, editor "The Chattanooga News"; Senator James M. Mead; and letter to Archibald MacLeish, Librarian of Congress.

Correspondents and topics include: Bishop Francis J. McConnell; James W. Miller; Vito Marcantonio; Otto Mayer; Robert E. Mathews concerning the "sit down strike" by investment bankers and industrialists in May 1940; and Henry Morgenthau, Jr., letter to.

Correspondence includes: "The New Republic"; Douglas Newman, Secretary of the Barradas League; Dr. C.A. Norman; memorandum concerning Senator Norris' presidential qualifications; and Representative Mary T. Norton.

Correspondents and topics include: William Owen; Ernest Minor Patterson; Representative Claude Pepper; Justice Justine Wise Polier; and Jacob S. Potofsky.

Correspondents and topics include: Judge Samuel I. Rosenman; Representative Robert L. Ramsay; Right Reverend Msgr. John A. Ryan.

Correspondents and topics include: John Saxton; Guy Emery Shipler; Edwin S. Smith; William Simkin; B.M. Schnapper concerning the history of the Wagner Act; Ray Scott concerning the "Fundamental Significance of our Present Day Labor Movement"; and Porter Sargent.

Correspondents and topics include: Ordway Tead, Harper and Brothers; and Dr. Robert H. Tucker.

Correspondents and topics include: an appreciation of Frank P. Walsh upon his death on May 2, 1939; Matthew Woll, American Federation of Labor; Thomas H. Wright, New America; Harry F. Ward; and Nathan Witt; and N.A. Zonorich.

Includes leases, workman's compensation insurance, correspondence, and unemployment compensation.

These include: "Policies and Objectives of the American Association of Economic Freedom," "Shrinkages and Hoardings of Purchasing Power Accentuate Current Business Recession," "Hoardings-Taxes Proposed to Stimulate Flow of Credit and Goods and Revival of Business," "Approaches Toward a Concerted Program of Fundamental Economic Reconstruction in the United States," various drafts of suggestions for the programs, principles and objectives of the organization, "Sugar Control," "American Labor's Broadcast to Great Britain," "American Economic Situation of 1937-1938," "Unemployment Insurance," "Industrial Espionage," "Bank-Holding Companies," several on social service foundations, "Economic Freedom in America," "Industrial Reconstruction Act of 1939" press release draft, "Capitalism in Crisis," "Prospective Labor Surpluses," "Increased Man Hour Productivity and Technological Unemployment," monopoly, and "Petroleum Quota Controls."

These include: participation in management, monopoly, the "Industrial Reconstruction Act of 1939," "Leaders on the No. 1 Problem," "Federal Administrative Court Bill," "Occupational Groupings," "National Labor Relations Act and Board," "Full Employment Bill," "Senator Claude Pepper," "Senator Lewis B. Schellenbach," and starting a American Association of Economic Freedom Bulletin."

These include: "Threatened Crucial Developments," "Anti-democratic philosophies," "Churchill's anticipations, 1932-1939," "Mussolini," "Hitlerism and Nazism," "Profits of Leading Corporations, 1936-1939," notes on People's Lobby Conference, and Ickes [speech] on business sabotage of defense.

These titles include: "Can Unemployment be Ended?"; "Challenge to American Democracy"; "Civil Liberties and the National Labor Relations Board"; "Cure by Shock," "Democracy and Economic Planning"; "Economic Reconstruction"; "Fundamental Significance of Our Present Day Labor Movement"; "Next Step in Democratization"; "A New Magna Carta" "A New Social Order"; "Preparedness for Peace," "Problems of the National Labor Relations Board."

The "Post-War Reconstruction Bill" is foldered separately.

Included are: "Thirty Million Jobs" by Arthur Dunn; Roundtable: "Labor's role in Post-War Reconstruction"; "Freedom from Want" by Mr. Walton; "Nineteenth Century Prophecy of Order" by Harry Frease; "The Moral Issue" by Lowell Mellett; "A Banking System for Capital and Capital Credit" by A.A. Berle, Jr.; "Suggested Housing Program for National Defense Purposes" by the Congress of Industrial Organizations; and "A Primer of Current Economics" [1933].

Included are: Fight for Freedom, Friends of Democracy, and the Gillette Resolution.

These include memoranda, news clippings, an article by George B. Galloway on "The Imperative of Planning," replies, and a speech by W. Jett Lauck.

Includes separate folders on news clippings, some containing criticisms and investigations; problems of the board; and the testimony of John L. Lewis.

Clippings include Wendell Willkie, democracy versus absolutism, banker opinion, national debt, U.S. Attorney General, pump priming the economy, monopolies, religion and democracy, communism, and capitalism and democracy.

Included are: Peace Conditions; People's Congress for Democracy and Peace; Plenty for All League; People's Lobby; Pressure Groups, Attitudes of; Pension Plan – "Uncle Fred's Automatic Pension Plan"; Progressives, Conference of; Social Union; Tax-Exempt Bonds; Women in Trade Unions; and Young Democrats.

These include: "Foreign Competition After the War," "The Artificial Dye Industry in the War," and "Business and the War."

Includes: "Secretary Kennedy Gives Union Views on How Hard-Coal Freight Rates Affect Miner" (December 15, 1933); "The N.R.A. and Collective Bargaining" Catholic Welfare Council (September 17, 1934); address before the National Conference on Economic Security (November 14, 1934); and "Organized Labor and the N.R.A." Catholic Conference, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (November 27, 1934).

Includes: Statement concerning the Wagner-Lewis Economic Security Bill before the Senate Committee on Finance (February 21, 1935); Commencement Address (June 3, 1935); "Education and the Parochial School System" (August 19, 1935); "The Trade Union and Recovery" (Labor Day, 1935); and "Unemployment Insurance, Old Age Pensions, and Housing Legislation" at the White House Conference on Economic Security (December 30, 1935).

Includes: Labor Day address (September 1937); article "The United Mine Workers of America" for the "American Encyclopedia" (December 2, 1938); address to the Pennsylvania Utilities Commission on the Competition of Natural Gas (April 1940); and a request for Lauck to send his analysis and recommendations concerning a letter from A.J. Altmeyer, Chairman of the Social Security Board, and two other enclosures pertaining to the Associated Gas and Electric Company, New York City (1942 March 27 and 1943 January 23).

Includes: a radio speech supporting Hoover in the election (1928); and a statement at the Hearing on a Code for the Bituminous Coal Mining Industry before the National Recovery Administration (1933 August 10).

Includes: "Labor and the National Recovery Administration" at the Meeting of the American Academy of Political Science, Philadelphia (1934 January 6); "Labor's Part in Industrial Recovery" at the San Francisco Commonwealth Club luncheon (1934 October 4); Speech for the International Labor Conference, not delivered (1934 October); and a radio address "The Employee in the Changing World" under the auspices of the Intercollegiate Council (1934 December 7).

Includes: Statement by Lewis before National Recovery Administration Hearings on Employment Provisions of Codes of Fair Competition (1935 January 30); "The American Federation of Labor and the National Recovery Administration" prepared for the "Annals," Philadelphia but never delivered (1935 March 11-12); The United Mine Workers of America and the National Recovery Act" Madison Square Gardens (1935 March-May 23); and Statement of Approval for the Wagner Housing Bill in the "United Mine Workers Journal" (1935 June 1).

Includes: "The Case for Industrial Unionism" (November 12, 1935); radio address "The Future of Organized Labor" (November 28, 1935); and article for "Liberty Magazine" on industrial unionism (1935 December 20).

Includes: a speech on Industrial Unionism before the Cleveland Auto Council (January 19, 1936); "The Teacher and His Relation to Labor" for the American Federation of Teachers Convention (June 19, 1936); a radio address "Industrial Democracy in Steel" (July 6, 1936); and an article "Through Organization Industrial Democracy Dawns for Sleeping Car Porters" celebrating the eleventh anniversary of the organization (July 15, 1936).

Includes: a political campaign statement about [Alf M.] Landon (August 1, [1936]); the draft of a Radio Address on Steel Organization (August 11, 1936); article "Labor Looks at Education" (August 17, 1936) appearing in the October 36 issue of "The Teacher"; article "Towards Industrial Democracy" (August 24, 1936) in appearing in the October 1936 issue of "Current History"; and two speeches supporting Franklin D. Roosevelt for President (August 18 and September 19, 1936).

Includes: radio address "Labor and the Future" (September 3, 1936); "Horizontal Versus Vertical Unionism" in "Wharton School Magazine," University of Pennsylvania (September 8, 1936); an article for the "The National Young Democrat" on the Social Security Act (September 1936); and a radio address "Roosevelt and the Future" (October 18, 1936).

Includes: article "The Next Four Years" for the "The Nation" (November 4, 1936); an article "Committee for Industrial Organization and Economic Recovery" for the "Business Review of New York University"(November 17, 1936); "the Future of American Labor" in "The American Spectator" (November 19, 1936); articles on "The Next Four Years in Labor" in "The New Republic" (November 25 and December 9, 1936); "The Future of Wages" for the "Cleveland News" Symposium (December 7, 1936); "Organized Labor and the Student Union" (December 23, 1936); "The Need of the Hour for American Labor" for the "Progressive Salesman Magazine" (December 24, 1936); radio address "Adapting Union Methods to Current Changes- Industrial Unionism" (December 31, 1936); and an unpublished article written for "Redbook" (1936).

Includes: "The Meaning of Industrial Unionism" for the "Christian Front" (January 13, 1937); "The Struggle for Industrial Democracy" for "Common Sense" (March 1937); an address delivered at an Anti-Nazi Mass Meeting in Madison Square Gardens (March 15, 1937); article "The Origin and Objectives of the C.I.O." for the "San Francisco Chronicle" (May 11, 1937); and a radio address "Labor and Supreme Court" (May 14, 1937).

Includes: "Technology and Labor" in "Massachusetts Institute of Technology Engineering News" (September 3, 1937); Labor Day address "Labor and the Nation" (September 3, 1937); "Progress of Committee for Industrial Organization" in the "Wharton Review" (October 21, 1937); "Effect of Moderate and Gradual Wage Increases on Prices and Living Costs" in "The Annalist" (November 12, 1937) a reply to an article by A.T. Shurick on July 30, 1937; and the [Steel Workers Organizing Committee] address "The Deplorable and Indefensible Attitude of Big Business (December 13, 1937).

Includes: Address for British Broadcasting Corporation "Struggle of Labor in America" (March 15, 1938); "Labor and the Law" (April 14, 1938); "Organized Labor and the Future of Democracy" published in the "St. Louis Post Dispatch" (December 11, 1938).

Includes: Statement for Survey Associates (January 3, 1939); and "Labor Looks South" in "Virginia Quarterly Review" (Autumn 1939).

Includes: article on "What Does Labor Want?" (February 29, 1940); "The Heritage of American Youth" (March 1940); "Obligations of American Citizenship" (April 3, 1940); "Foreword" to Mr. Thomas' Testimony before the Temporary National Economic Committee (May 23, 1940); and a Labor Day Speech (August 29, 1940).

Includes: Extension of Library Service to Union for City and State Employees (May 28, 1941); Statement to be issued by Lewis on the Decision of the National Mediation Board on Union Shops (November 13, 1941); and "The New Solid South" (December 17, 1941).

Includes: Testimony of Mr. Steinbugler (March 2, 1935); the "Most Impressive Point Developed by the Hearings" (March 2, 1935); untitled Memorandum (July 30, 1936); "Report on the Progress of the Hearing on the Coordination of Minimum Prices before the Bituminous Coal Division (September 16, 1939); "Proposed Labor Policy for the War Period," various memoranda (September 11-November 13, 1939); an analysis of Professor Green's Proposal about pricing and distributing manufactured products (June 3, 1940); and Notes on the Last Ten Years (January-May, 1940).

Includes: Reply to A.T. Shurick suggestions on taxing (November 29, 1940); Response to the foreword of Walt Clyde's book on "Owner Capitalism" (December 4, 1940); suggestions about the National Economic Conference (December 12, 1940); Response to W.C. Graves, Jr. (December 23, 1940); Letter about the Raw Materials National Council (December 27, 1940); Memorandum on Fred G. Clark and the American Economic Foundation (February 20, 1941); H.S. Avery to Edward O'Neal and John L.Lewis on agriculture and farm prices (September 8, 1941); Conrad K. Grieb on need for social reconstruction (October 23, 1941); Letters from Alexander Spencer (October 30 and November 26, 1941); and a manuscript of Albert H. Levene (November 30, 1941).

Includes: Memorandum about Post War Depression (January 7, 1942); a response to S. Ferguson, President of the Hartford Electric Light Company about his proposals about deferred wages (January 13, 1942); W.A Hutton, M.D. letter on post-war finances (January 14, 1942); Thomas Kennedy request for a study on the Cost of Living (January 16, 1942); Request for a response to the document by L.C. Christian on "How Must We Finance the War?" (February 3, 1942); a request for a response to a treatise on our financial system by August Walters (February 5-March 18, 1942); additional R.L. Greene communications (February 12,1942); and H.W. Bailey on labor self-determination (March 9, 1942).

Includes: Digest of the Salient Points of a Report on "Manpower Policy and Labor Relations in the British Coal Industry" (January 5, 1943); a Leo Chabert document on financing the war (April 4, 1943); and memoranda about an executive conference of the Natural Resources Board at Farmington Country Club, Charlottesville, Virginia, previously held around 1939.

Subjects include the National Recovery Administration, "Amalgamation of the Two Enginemen's Brotherhoods," "Russian Recognition and the New Deal," "Future Policies of the National Recovery Administration," Six-Hour Day of the Railroads, "Two Men on the Head End of all Railroad Trains," and Housing.

Subjects include "Benefits of Trade Unionism," "Forbes" article, "Limit on Weekly Work Hours," a letter to Professor Gordon, and "Labor Movement and the Future of America"

Subjects include planks for the Republican Platform, Anti-Strike Legislation, a Rejoinder to the Remarks of Fred Gurley, and "Recommendations to the Board of Investigation and Research"

A checklist of article titles can be found in the first folder. Titles in the order of the list include: "Economics and Christianity"; "The Mysterious Soul of the Steel Corporation"; "The Anthracite Operators Should Concede the Check-off" July 13, 1923; "Industrial Principles and Not Machinery Are Important"; "The So-Called Check-off and Its Significance"; "The Report of the Coal Commission on the Anthracite Industry"; "The Purchasing Power of Wheat and Cotton"; "Private Cars and the Coal Problem"; "Mr. McAdoo's Political Availability"; and "No More Pre-war Standards of Wages and Working Conditions."

Next ten article titles include: "The Radical - His Significance at Present"; "The Soft Coal Problem Again to the Front"; "Labor Banks and Their Ultimate Significance"; "Political Democracy Must be Supplemented by Industrial Democracy"; "Oil and the Southern Pacific"; "The Purchasing Power of the Farmer's Dollar"; "The Truth is Never Unpardonable"; "Private Cars and the Coal Problem"; "The Unique Financial Position of the Pullman Company"; and "Another Manifestation of the Soul of the Steel Corporation."

The next ten article titles include: "Sugar and the Flexible Tariff Provision"; "Conflict or Arbitration"; "The Threatened Boomerang"; "Cooperation for Mutual Benefit or Profit?"; "Secret Police or Conviction for Crime"; "Chairman Butler Emits and Omits"; National Cooperative Grain Marketing Realized"; "The Anthracite Operators Should Concede the Check-off" (possible duplicate); "Regulation of the Anthracite Monopoly" September 1 , 1923; "Why Not Action on Anthracite?" September 11, 1923; and "Can a Living Wage Be Paid to Unskilled Labor?" October 30, 1923.

The next ten article titles include: "The Failure of Industrial Arbitration" October 30, 1923; "Significant Labor Developments During the Coming Year" October 30, 1923; "A Dramatic Migration" concerning African Americans, October 30, 1923; "Unprotected Pullman Passengers" October 30, 1923; "The New Immigration and Its Significance" November 2, 1923; "The Probability of Railroad Legislation" February 7, 1924; "The Industrial Magna Carta" February 23, 1924; "Land Grants to Western Railroads" February 23, 1924; "Increased Efficiency of Labor" February 23, 1924; and "Real Industrial Statemanship February 25, 1924."

The next ten article titles include: "Some Other Matters of Record" June 2, 1924; "The Verdict from Kansas" August 7, 1924; "A Real Test for the Tariff Commission" August 14, 1924; "A Billion and a Half Railroad Merger" August 16, 1924; "Common Sense" August 19, 1924; "President Gompers and a Labor Party" August 19, 1924; "A Significant Precedent in Financing Farmers Cooperative Enterprises"; "Back to the Declaration of Independence" August 21, 1924; "A Costly Labor Policy" August 23, 1924; and "Brass Tacks, The Red Flag, and the Constitution" August 23, 1924.

The final group of articles include: "Industrial Democracy - Our Greatest Problem" August 27, 1924; "The Passing of the Money Gods"; "The Conference Board Reports on Taxation in Wisconsin"; "The Railroad Labor Board"; "The Farmer and the Tariff"; "Visible and Invisible Tax Burdens"; "The Most Helpful Farm Movement"; "Radicals and God's Fools"; "Militant Friends Needed"; "The Unconscious Cruelty of Success" October 24, 1924; and "Another Orgy of Railroad Finance."

While some chapters have no individual date, they likely all come from drafts in 1931 or 1932. It is unclear which version belongs to each draft, and equally unclear which versions the explanatory note references. Chapter VII is largely missing. The name of the book may have eventually changed to "The Need for a Unified Banking System."

The Wage Reduction Case was brought by William S. Carter, President of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, originally against the Atlanta, Birmingham, and Atlantic Railway Company, before the United States Railroad Labor Board, but it eventually became a much larger case involving other Brotherhoods and Unions concerning railroad workers and wages.

These exhibits include "Changes in Cost of Living in the United States, 1913-1922," "A Just and Reasonable Wage," and "Monthly Earnings of Sectionmen."

The volume includes exhibits on "Harmful Effects of Low Wages Upon Health and Morals," "The So-called Law of Supply and Demand," "The Just and Reasonable Wage," "Changes in the Cost of Living in the United States, 1913-1922," "Probable Course of Prices," "Comparison of Prices and Living Costs," "Monthly Earnings of Section Men," and "Monthly Earnings of Section Men – Basic Tables."

Includes the following files: Briefs; Construction and Repair of Railroad Equipment; Correspondence on Leasing Out Repair Roads; Minutes of the Philadelphia Hearing; Petition to the Interstate Commerce Commission; Press - Clippings concerning Outside Repair; Press Release Originals; General Electric and Westinghouse; Labor Costs; Louisville to Nashville Railroad; and Miscellaneous.

W. Jett Lauck has also referred to this case as "the Shopman's Case" or the "B.M. Jewell Case." Jewell was the President of the Railway Employees division of the American Federation of Labor.

Note that all exhibits were presented before the United States Railroad Labor Board.

Exhibit 11a includes the section "Financial Mismanagement of the LeHigh Valley Railroad Company" and Exhibit 12 includes the "Summary."

Exhibit tTitles include: "Occupation Hazard of Railway Shopmen"; "Punitive Overtime"; "Industrial Relation on Railroads prior to 1917"; "Standardization"; "The Recognition of Human Standards in Industry"; "The Unity of the American Railway Systems"; "Human Standards and Railroad Policy"; "Seniority Rules of the National Agreements"; "The Sanction of the Eight Hour Day"; "The Work of the Railway Carmen," and "The Development of Collective Bargaining on a National Basis."

Timothy Shea was the Acting President of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen between 1919-1922 .

These include: "Pending Railway Legislation"; "The Present Railroad Labor Problem"; "The Future Policy as to the Railroads"; "Compulsory Arbitration"; "Labor Adjustment Boards of the Railroad Administration"; "The Reasonableness of the Requests of Locomotive Firemen"; "Time and One-Half For Overtime"; and "Compulsory Arbitration."

The Six Hour Day Case was also referred to as the 30 Hour Week in the press and in supporting materials. The work was undertaken by Lauck for David B. Robertson, President of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen.

The Sleeping Car Conductors Case files consist of several successive cases arranged in this finding aid roughly in the chronological order in which they occurred.

Exhibits include "An Adequate Basic Wage," "Earnings of Sleeping Car Conductors compared with Changes in the Cost of Living," "Various Factors Indicating Rising Standards of Living in the United States Since 1914," "Compensation of Sleeping Car Conductors compared with other Expenses and Revenue of the Pullman Company," and "General Trend of Wages, 1913-1918, as Compared with Earnings of Sleeping Car Conductors."

Exhibits include "Increased Productive Efficiency of Sleeping Car Conductors and Financial Administration of the Pullman Company," "Increased Labor Productivity," and "Standards of Wage Determination."

This case was brought by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen demanding that a fireman (helper) be employed on all types of power used in railroad service for safety, including diesel and streamline trains.

This file includes information and statistics on Besler Steam Power Trains; the Comparative Costs of Operation; Locomotives in Service; Diesels in Switching Service; Earnings Per Hour; Freight Cars; and General Statistics.

The Railway Wage Reduction Case of 1938 was presented before the Emergency Board by W. Jett Lauck on behalf of the Railway Labor Executives' Association.

These charts include: "Anthracite Combination," "The Seven Departments of the Anthracite Industry," "Interlocking Directorates Showing Working Control of Anthracite Operating Companies," and "Profits of Anthracite Combination."

Charts include "Affiliations of Railroads and Banking Houses," "New York Bank Control of Railroads and Railroad Equipment Companies," "New York Bank Control of Coal Mining Companies and Coal Railroads," and "The Geographical Spread of New York Railroad Control."

Exhibits include "Employment and Compensation of Railroad Employees"; "Cost of Living"; "Methods of Reporting Wage and Hour Data"; and "Increasing Output per Worker and Decreasing Wage Cost Per Unit of Output."

Exhibits include: "Trend of Railway Operating Revenues and Total Compensation"; "The Rising Tide of Recovery A Survey of the Leading Business Indices"; "Labor Movement Supports Railway Workers in Resisting a Wage Cut"; "Squandering the Maintenance Dollar"; "Financial Mismanagement through Banker Control of Railroads"; "Training and Skill of Track and Roadway Section Men"; "Average Hourly Earnings in Railroads and Other Industries"; and "Estimated Money Share of Individual Railroads in the Proposed 15 Per Cent Pay Reduction."

Morgan's statements include those on wages; postwar economic conditions, developments, and private bankers' constructive services; and interference and control in corporate managements.

These include "Cost of Living is Increasing," "The Railroad Plea of Poverty," "Labor Versus Materials and Interest," and "The Railroads versus the Public Interest" (printed).

Tables include "Dividend Performance of Anthracite Railroads and Trunk Lines Compared," "Percentage Relationships of Dividends Paid on Stock Dividends to Total Compensation Paid Employees," and "Distribution of Capital Resources."

Most dockets were found together and left as a series. Occasionally dockets were found with their related papers. In those cases, the dockets remain in the their related individual series and were not moved to the Docket series. At this point it is impossible to be sure of the original order by W. Jett Lauck.

This case was a call for amendment to the Tariff Act of 1922. Lauck represented a group of domestic manufacturers, including the Glass Containers Association of America, in putting together an argument for an increase in tariffs on imported glass bottles. It is important to note that Lauck did not represent industry in opposition to labor. The Glass Bottles Blowers Association submitted a brief agreeing with the domestic manufacturers, —but only in opposition to foreign goods making American industry and labor obsolete.

The Grain Marketing Company was created to jointly market the product of three grain companies: Armour Grain Company, Rosenbaum Grain Corporation, and Rosenbaum Brothers. W. Jett Lauck served as Director of Appraisals for this venture, preparing a large report on the valuation of the Grain Marketing Company's properties. This report was reproduced in many, slightly altered formats for different purposes, people, and groups, and these variants are the subject of many folders in the case, which contain significant overlap.

W. Jett Lauck was employed by the John G. Paton Company of New York City to study the report of the Tariff Commission of 1928 as to the costs of production in the maple sugar industry in the United States and in Canada. He then gave his conclusions on the report to the company and as testimony before the Tariff Commission itself.

There are excerpts from the following: the Tariff Commission Stenographer's Minutes (June 1927), Hearings before the House Committee on Ways and Means (January 1929), Hearings before the Senate Finance Committee (June 1929), Debates in the U.S. Senate (January 1930), Remarks of the Honorable Ernest W. Gibson (February 1930), the Roodenburg Report (November 1930), George H. Burr and Company Report (March 1931), R.G. Dun and Company Report (undated), Cary Maple Sugar Company Federal Income Tax Returns (1921-1930), and Cary Testimony (undated).

The Agricultural Adjustment Administration implemented a new tax on paper towels. The reason given was that they competed with typical cotton towels. W. Jett Lauck advised the Paper Towel Manufacturers Association and prepared their case before the Agricultural Adjustment Administration and Congress.

Most dockets were found together and left as a series. Occasionally dockets were found with their related papers. In those cases, the dockets remain in the their related individual series and were not moved to the Docket series. At this point it is impossible to be sure of the original order by W. Jett Lauck.

These include: Agricultural Adjustment Act and Amendment, House Resolution 9439, Orders from the President and National Recovery Administrator, Regulation 81, Regulation 82, and Secretary of Agriculture Regulations.

Some 16,000 textile workers participated in the strike, centered in Passaic, New Jersey and initially organized as the "United Front Committee" by the Workers (Communist Party) before being transferred to the leadership of the American Federation of Labor. W. Jett Lauck served as a consulting economist to the strikers, chairman of the Plenary Committee (also known as The Citizens Committee or the Lauck Committee) representing the strikers and overseeing transition to the American Federation of Labor, economist for the National Committee for Passaic Relief and Defense, and member of the Temporary Committee for Establishment of American Standards of Life for Textile Workers, as well as participated in the case on the floor of the Senate and in Senate Committees.

The index for this case shows that the supporting materials are incomplete. Some materials may have not survived or others may be present in the collection but their direct connection to this particular case has been lost.

This case was between the Franklin Division of the Franklin Typothetae of Chicago and a collection of unions, namely: the Chicago Typographical Union No. 16, Chicago Printing Pressmen's Union No. 3, Franklin Union No. 4, and Bookbinders' and Paper Cutters' Union No. 8 regarding a cut in wages. W. Jett Lauck represented the unions and prepared their case alongside Arthur Sturgis.

Files include the following folders: News clippings; Comparison of Lauck and Mahon Agreements; Final Agreement; General; Hanna Memorandum; Insurance; Saint Louis Public Service Company Union Plan for Cooperation; and Saint Louis Public Service Company Operating Notes.

Files include Pamphlets on Public Utilities, Press on Public Utilities, Press on Governor Roosevelt and Power Utilities, [Union?], and a Report addressed to Frank P. Walsh (1864-1939).

There were two hearings before the United States Tariff Commission related to an investigation into the costs of sugar production. After the January hearings (January 15-24, 1924), other briefs were filed. There was a call for another hearing to be held in March (March 27-28, 1924) after which it was decided that all parties had until April 10th to file more briefs in connection with the hearings. W. Jett Lauck coordinated and prepared documents for many of the parties involved. He also served as a witness for the Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association.

Includes news about the Bituminous Coal Commission.

This includes the "Report, Findings and Award of the United States Anthracite Coal Commission of 1920."

Files pertaining to Wages include: Wage Demands; Wage Rates of Employees Other Than Contract Miners; Wages, Earnings and Work Conditions in General; Wages in Various Industries 1914 to 1920; and Wages in Various Industries and Occupations: A Summary of Wage Movements 1914-1920.

Letters are presumably from W. Jett Lauck to the "New York Times" Managing Editor and to the President, regarding the establishment of an Arbitration Board.

These three memoranda are to Mr. Lewis, July 8, 1922; one concerning the production of the Central Competitive Field, April 27, 1922; and a third showing the financial connections of the Boston Financial Group and Secretary Mellon.

The two press releases include a letter to the President regarding Arbitration, July 15, 1922, and the UMWA Statement about Mr. Murray's Speech, April 22, 1922.

Items include a "Journal" Communication sent to every member of Congress, 1922; a Letter to Officers and Members, May 25, 1922; and the UMWA Wage Scale Committee proposed wage scale, February 14, 1922.

The History of the Development of the Anthracite Coal Combination contains five sections: Section 1, Early History of Anthracite Consolidations and Combinations; Section 2, Consummation of the Anthracite Combination, 1896; Section 3, Methods by Which Railroads Have Discriminated in Favor of Their Allied Coal Companies and Favored Clients; Section 4, The Influence of the Combination Upon Freight Rates, Shipping Allotments, and Prices; and Section 5, Present Situation as Regards Ownership and Control.

The unnumbered exhibits include "The Coal Controversy" May 1922 and Geological Survey, Weekly Report on the Production of Bituminous Coal, Anthracite, and Beehive Coke, February 11, 1922.

These exhibits include: Exhibit 6: Seasonal Fluctuations in Production and Transportation, June 15, 1921; Exhibit 7: Production, Capacity, Men Employed, Mine Price Per Ton, and Days Lost, 1922, undated; Exhibit 12: Fluctuation in Employment and Earnings of Bituminous Mine Workers, undated; Exhibit 14: Effect of Price Changes Upon Purchasing Power, 1920; Exhibit 16: Chart Showing Production from Union and Non-Union Districts, March 16, 1922.

Memoranda include "Complete Unionization Would be the Greatest Factor in Stabilization of Soft Coal Industry" June 19, 1922, several other miscellaneous undated memoranda for Lewis, plus one on the Earnings of Bituminous Mine Workers for a "Baltimore Sun" Article, March 17, 1922.

Press Releases include: Capital Investment and Profit of Bituminous Coal Mine Operators, June 1, 1922; Letter From Ellis Searles to Secretary Hoover, February 8, 1922; Letter Submitting Explanatory and Statistical Material Supporting the Preliminary Report of the Commission on Investment and Profit in Soft Coal Mining, July 6, 1922; and Press Release: Russell Sage Foundation Report on "The Coal Miners' Insecurity" April 16, 1922.

Morrow's statements were made before the Committee on Labor, April 25, 1922 and before the Interstate Commerce Commission in the Hearing on Railroad Rates, Fares, and Charges, January 19, 1922.

Includes Memoranda and Opening Statement on behalf of Anthracite Mine Workers and Research Material and Data.

Statements concern the Request of Anthracite Operators for a Modification of the Wage Scale, before the Anthracite Board of Reference, George Rublee and Frank Morrison, Typescript and Print copies.

The reply concerns the request of Operators for modification of the Wage Scale, and was by John L. Lewis, etc. on behalf of the United Mine Workers, before the Anthracite Board of Reference, George Rublee and Frank Morrison, Proofs and Print copies.

The Anthracite Freight Rate Case files may be part of the previous group but were placed in a separate divider created by the office of Lauck.

Statistics include four categories: General; Anthracite Coal Carrying Railroads, Typed Originals and Carbons; Financial Performance of Coal Companies (clippings and other statistics),Earnings, and Profit; and Salaries of Operator officials, exceeding $10,000 per year.

Note: an assigned car is a rail car specifically designated for the use of a particular shipper, or, in the case of private cars, for the use of a particular railroad for a specific customer.

File includes Lauck's Civil Service record (1945) and National War Labor Board service (1918).

The 1911 blueprint "General Plan" of the property was prepared by Thomas Meehan and Sons, Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, Landscape Architects, for Francis T.A. Junkin, Lexington, Virginia. The "Map of Mulberry Hill, Lexington, Virginia," 1926, with surrounding properties, was done by R.E. Witt, Certified Land Surveyor.For a typed description of the property by R.E. Witt and a note by W. Jett Lauck, see Box 224 Folder 4.

File includes Monthly Statements, Proofs of Notices, Subscribers and Sales.

File includes Correspondence, Papers, and Table of Contents.

Lauck taught a course on the History of the Labor Movement at the American University.

Student grades were removed from the file and placed in the control folder box for MSS 4742.

The Notes chiefly include Political Science, Sociology, Labor vs Capital, Economics, Constitutional Law, American Government, and Agriculture.

These College Notes are chiefly concerned with the Reciprocity Concept and the Chicago Conference with sections on Cuba and Hawaii; Distribution; Receiverships; Sociology and Tariffs; and Printed Material.

Much of this material is fragmentary or incomplete and it possibly has some material of W. Jett Lauck mixed in.

These photographs include the "Funeral Procession of Stephen Horvath, McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, August 14, 1909. Photographs are mostly unidentified and some do not include W. Jett Lauck.

These photographs are mostly unidentified and undated but does includes William Harmon Black and Major Miller Taylor. and his wife.

This file consists of seven oversize photographs, including a Staff Conference; the Immigration Commission, Washington D.C. (1907); three photographs of Lauck with the same two unidentified men; W.D. Mahon; A.A. Mitten; Earl E. Houck; an unidentified man; and an unidentified hearing.

This folder includes four oversize photographs of Public Code Hearings on Bituminous Coal Industry, 1933 August 9; Cigar Manufacturing Industry AAA Code Hearing, 1933 November 22; Structural Steel and Iron Fabricating Industry N.R.A. Hearing, 1933 October 30; and Anthracite Coal Industry, NRA Code Hearing, William H. Davis Deputy Administrator, Washington, D.C., 1933 November 17

This file includes agendas, correspondence, reports, membership, and the tentative program.

Topics include: American Mining Congress Declaration of Policy, disagreements over the NRA code, gasoline and coal, new processes, and the right to strike.

This file includes an "Investigation of Paint Creek Coal Fields of West Virginia," "The Truth about Coal River Collieries," "West Virginia Coal Fields" (Senator Kenyon), Colorado Coal Fields, and a List of West Virginia Coal Fields.

Includes Houde Engineering Company Memorandum submitted to the National Labor Relations Board, the Hunt Memorandum outlining the Study of Competing Fuels, Lauck's review of "The Coal Industry" by Glen L. Parker, the Keller Bill for the Mississippi Valley on the Relative Importance of Fuels, "Oil-Coal Mixtures as Industrial Fuel" by J.E. Hedrick, and the Coal Cost of Producing Electricity, by J. Leonard Matt in the "New York Herald Tribune."

The Guffey-Snyder Act was officially known as the Bituminous Coal Conservation Act of 1935. This law was passed as part of the New Deal and created the Bituminous Coal Commission to set the price of coal. It was ruled unconstitutional and was replaced by the Guffey-Vinson Act in 1937.