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Subseries 4. Labor, 1850-1994

Scope and Content Notes:

The Labor series covers most employee matters, including but not limited to, applications, interviews, pay rates, injuries, illness, vacation, employee information, grievances, and any manner of documentation that relates to the life of a P&LE Railroad employee.

Box 11 Out of service employee records A-I, 1880-1950
Box 12 Out of service employee records J-R, 1880-1950
Box 13 Out of service employee records S-Z, 1880-1950
Box 14 Military Leave employee records A-Z, In service electricians A-Z, 1880-1950
Box 15 Powerhouse furloughed A-Z, 1880-1950
Box 18 Requirements for employees, College Recruitment Program, rules governing employees, age limits, Pension Plan, safety meetings, safety eye glasses, 1970s
Box 24 Trainmen seniority rosters, engineer investigations, accident reports, clerks roster, Conrail Qualifications, 1990s
Box 29 Employee Accounts and Wages, Method of Paying Employees, General Employee Operations Files, 1970s
Box 34 Employees not returning from military leave, job ads, rates of pay (1965), CAB report, Seniority District, Forecasts and expenditure reports (1985), 1962-1985
Box 35 Microfilm records, Safety Rules, Operating Statistics and Overhead Expenses, Pocket Directory of Railroad Officials, Change of Employee Status- Disability Files, 1980s
Box 52-56 Employee Record Cards, 1880s-1950
Box 72 Personal injury files from Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas, 1970s
Box 73 Trainmen's and clerks rosters, time sheets and books, P&LE Phone Directory, position changes, time disagreement files, 1992 Morning Situation Report, 1960-1970
Box 74 Documents Furnished PCTC Trustees, Re: Sale of P&LE (1977), Maintenance Chart, Equipment Lease Agreements, Lease Documents, Labor relations report, Bank Credit Agreement, 1970s
Box 87-88 Personal injury Files, Mechanical Department, 1949-1950
Box 90 Union Shop Agreement files, 1960
Box 91 General Files - Discipline of Employee's - Mechanical Department, 1960s-1970s
Box 103 Employment of Women, Penn Central Merger, Clerks and Foremen Agreements, 1970-1980
Box 104 Employee Records (leave of absence documents, furloughed, etc), Union Rosters, Car Dept Roster (1988), 1950-1990
Box 146 Mechanical Dept. - Transport Workers of America Cases ( MY -1 to My - 61 - A and G - 2 to G - 75), 1960s
Box 149 Labor Relations and Personnel Department - Agreements (Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, United Transportation Union, Train Dispatchers Agreement, Wage Stabilization Agreement Protected Clerks), monthly displacement allowance, Pink Sheet Copies, 1970s-1980s
Box 150 Telephone directory, Police Officer Instruction files (duties, training material), Accident Prevention training material, 1930-1960
Box 151 Crew assignments sheets, accident reports (1989-92), personal Injury reports (1989-92), Brake Information / Training, Pink Sheets (May 1982 - July 82), mechanical division annual reports and Pink Sheets, 1980-1990s
Box 152 Instruction Files - Handling Messages, Bonner Cards, Tender Notices, Crew Callers, Crew Dispatchers, etc., 1970s
Box 153 Yardmaster sick time, Master list regular and extra employees, extension on activity report, labor representatives, request for verification of employment, wage stabilization agreement, 1980s
Box 154 Janitors Instructions and Correspondence, messengers handling mail, YS&T Yard Movement Card Bills, Ore Report, End of Month Report, Company fuel cars - heavy repair cars, Company coal, sand, and oil, 1970s
Box 159 Time book, Chief Clerk Duties, Mediation Agreements Shop Crafts, Vacations Car Dept., Loco Diesel Shop, engineer and reserve engineer sheets, 1980s
Box 164 Time claims or Grievances, 1970s
Box 165 Time Claims or Grievances (6476 thru 6672 - Time Claims or Grievances, 6628 thru 6639 - 1st Div. NRAB see file E502, 6640 thru 6641 - Time claims or Grievances, 6642 - See Board File A3T2, 6643 thru 6646 - Time Claims or Grievances, 6647 - 1st Div. NRAB et al, 6648 thru 6652 - Time Claims or Grievances, 6653 - 1st Div. NRAB, 6654 thru 6675 - Time Claims or Grievances, 1950s
Box 166-168 Time claims or Grievances (18876 - 2nd Div. NRAB see A15 V117, 18877 thru 19025), 1957-1960s
Box 170 Agreement between P&LE and Yardmasters, Labor Agreements Effective 4/1/91, Mediation Agreements (UTU, BLE,ATDA,RYA,TCU & Telegraphers, Allied Services), P&LE Union Agreements, 1990s
Box 173 Time Claims Clerks, Clerical Rosters, Bonding Service Clerks, Vacation Clerks, Office Machines, Taxi Cabs charges, Payroll Information Clerks, Wages working conditions advertisement district, clerks agreements holidays vacations wages etc, Grievances of Employers, etc., 1980s
Box 174 Personal injuries starting January 1966, 1966-1977
Box 178 3rd Division Awards (NRAB), A12E16A1, A14B4, A14B5, A14B6, A171, A172, 1950s
Box 179 2nd Division Awards (NRAB), A15V114 thru A15V118, 1960s
Box 180 3rd Division Awards (NRAB), 1960s
Box 182 2nd Division Awards (NRAB) A15V70 thru A15V91 1980s
Box 183-185 Employee Records Cards, 1870s-1950
Box 186 11551 thru 11599 (Time Claims or Grievances), 11600 (2nd Div NRAB A15V22), 11601 to 11602 (Time Claims or Grievances), 11603 (2nd Div NRAB A15V25), 11604 thru 11718 (Time Claims or Grievances), 11719 thru 11725 (Time Claims or Grievances), 1960s
Box 187 Matters of employees including five day work week, union shop agreements, vacations, requisitions, sight & hearing exams, insurance, sick time, etc.; files on Conrail, trackage rights, right of way, 1970s-1980s
Box 188 Employee Records Files, includes some who participated in National Defense Program, 1960s-1980s
Box 189 3rd Division Awards A17-3 through A17-8, 1970s
Box 190 Discipline of Employees Instructions; P&LE General Instructions; TWU Working Agreements and Public Law Board Cases; Monthly Safety Meetings; Brotherhood of Railway, Airline and Steamship Clerks; Leave of Absence, 1928-1990
Box 191 Employee Records Files, 1960s-1980s
Box 260 Mechanical Department - Personal Injury Record Cards, Car and Locomotive, 1943-1974
Box 289 Index cards of employee's information, 1969-1983
Box 301 Transportation Department out of service prior to 1950, Wia to Zoll; eng contracts-cards, 1870s-1950
Box 302a-302b Transportation Department employees out of service prior to 1950, Rei to Sow, 1870s-1950
Box 303a-303b Transportation Department employees out of service prior to 1950, McD to Rei, 1870s-1950
Box 304a-304b Transportation Department 50-80-20 out of service employees prior to 1950, Ge to Hr, 1870s-1950
Box 305a-305b Transportation Department 80-50-20 out of service employees prior to 1950, Bu to Day, 1870s-1950
Box 306a-306b Transportation Department 50-80-20 out of service employees prior to 1950, A to Brz, 1870s-1950
Box 307 Out of service employees, Stores Department, Ke to Miller, 1870s-1950
Box 308 Out of service storehouse department employees - Aa to Cloh, 1870s-1950
Box 309 Out of service employees, Stores Department,G to Ka, 1870s-1950
Box 310 Out of service storehouse department employees - Cloo to F, 1870s-1950
Box 311a Out of service engineering department 10 employees - saake to zwo, 1870s-1950
Box 311b Out of service car department 40 employees - abar to bizz, 1870s-1950
Box 312a Out of service employees Locomotive Department prior to 1959 Wim to Zzif and out of service engine department prior to 1950 Aar-Brk, 1870s-1950
Box 312b Out of service employees engine department prior to 1950 Bro - Dj, 1870s-1950
Box 313a-313b Locomotive Department out of service employees prior to 1950, Cop to Goz, 1870s-1950
Box 314a-314b Locomotive Department out of service employees prior to 1950, Kr to Myz, 1870s-1950
Box 315a Engine Department out of service employees prior to 1950, Dobb to Harr, 1870s-1950
Box 315b Engine Department out of service employees prior to 1950, Has to L'Henseux, 1870s-1950
Box 316a Stores Department out of service employees prior to 1950, Millert to P, 1870s-1950
Box 316b Stores Department out of service employees prior to 1950, Stol to Z, 1870s-1950
Box 317 Stores Department out of service employees prior to 1950, Q to STOR, 1870s-1950
Box 318a-318b Transportation Department out of service employees prior to 1950, Lo to McCu, 1870s-1950
Box 319a-319b Transportation Department 50-80-20 out of service employees prior to 1950, De to Gb, 1870s-1950
Box 320a Locomotive Department out of service employees prior to 1950, Naa to Pyl, 1870s-1950
Box 320b Locomotive Department out of service employees prior to 1950, Qou to Sfer 1870s-1950
Box 321a-321b Locomotive Department out of service employees prior to 1950, Sha to Whit, 1870s-1950
Box 322a-322b Engine Department out of service employees prior to 1950, Lib to Ryn, 1870s-1950
Box 323a Locomotive department out of service employees prior to 1950 Aa-Bozz, 1870s-1950
Box 323b Locomotive department out of service employees prior to 1950 Bra-Coo, 1870s-1950
Box 324a Transportation department out of service employees prior to 1950 Sp-Tra, 1870s-1950
Box 324b Transportation department out of service employees prior to 1950 Trac-Why, 1870s-1950
Box 325 Employee Personal Records Vensel-Wehrer, 1927-1964
Box 327a-327b Locomotives Dept. out of service employees prior to 1950; GR to KOZ, 1870s-1950
Box 328a-328c Locomotives Dept. out of service employee records, 1870s-1950
Box 331a-332c Employee records, 1870s-1950
Box 333 NYC system instructions for operation of diesel-electric locomotives; files pertaining to ads on cars, station record of movements, wreck trucks; Newell accident report; card file of widows, pensioners, deceased, 1952-1988
Box 335a Employee files A through D; register of Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co. employees, 1900-1980
Box 335b Employee files E through J and R, 1900-1980
Box 335c Employee files S through Z, 1900-1980
Box 336a-336d Employee out of service record cards (trainmen, engineers, clerks, yardmasters, etc), 1900-1980
Box 369 Credit cards of vehicles assigned to equipment dept.; firemen's, engineer's, and clerk's agreements; Railroad Yardmasters of America and American Train Dispatchers agreements; Transportation-Communication Employees Union; general notices; 'pink sheets', 1956-1988
Box 370 Reports of coal reserves, recoverable coal at mines, freight survey (1931-34); Ashtabula and Shenango trackage rights agreements, contracts, and reports (1976-84); Union mediation agreements (90s), 1931-44; 1976-91
Box 396 Records of employees from P&LE at Montour, 1950-1981
Box 415a Paperwork and correspondence between the railroad and various labor unions (Sheet Metal Workers, International Association of Machinists, etc.); employee vacation agreements, time lost, furlough, 1969-1990
Box 415b Paperwork and correspondence between railroad and various labor unions, including strikes; disposal of hazardous waste and refuse; scrapped cars; office supply orders; news releases and articles concerning labor issues, accidents, and other company issues, 1969-1990
Box 420 Company vehicles and insurance of, freight maintenance, employee training, accounting, employee bulletin, 1970-1980
Box 435 General notices; car men's agreements; 1967 Strike time claims; jurisdiction disputes; conference and grievances of Transport Workers Union of America, 1944-1972
Box 439 Water pipelines and construction blueprints; worker payrolls and estimates of expenses, 1914-1946
Box 446 Mechanical department employee rosters, 1980-1988
Box 451 Various publications on industry research; publications from conference proceedings and workshops; P&LE employee handbook; Carnegie Steel publication on "rails and angle bars;" worker safety pamphlets, 1920-1982
Box 452 Car department holidays and jury duties; matters of National Railroad Adjustment Board; complaints of cabooses; Working Agreements with C.I.O., 1934-1979
Box 456 Daily Coal Sheets; trainmen's weekly vacation assignments; clerical advertisements; railroad agreement on standards; contractor card index, 1900-1988
Box 460-461 L.E.S.A.D.F.employee records cards (1860-1920), rates of pay agreements (1972-73); insurance and decrease of forced furloughed employees and employees recalled; monthly report of employee movements; car dept. and painters and carpenters twice a month report; TWU of A new employees and out of service, 1860-1980
Box 462 Employee records cards; occupation description and pay; office of freight car utilization agent's of P&LE business and activities; management positions; performance; middle management; clerks; vacations, 1967-1982
Box 463 Employees paid to attend court; public relations instruction; USDT ads for cars and dynamite; 14th annual RR conference; GE employee education; operations stats; Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce Meeting minutes; Brotherhood of Railroad (1990); signed worker agreements; teamsters; labor relations, 1971-1990
Box 465 Union agreements (International Brotherhood of Firemen and Oiler, Sheet metal Workers International, International Association of Machinists, Electrical Workers, International Brotherhood of Boilermakers); grievances, 1970s
Box 469 TWU Agreements and working agreements; Machinery & Airbrakes exam series; 1990 Joint Inspection--B&LE and P≤ seniority rosters; mechanical dept. locomotives, College, PA (1981); engineering mileage chart logs, 1967-1990
Box 470 Labor agreements, working agreements, cases of investigation with TWU; agreements with CIO & TWU, 1969-1975
Box 471 Various records of employee matters including: seniority district records of employment, advertisements, and awards; resumes; clerks in military service (40s); suspensions; leave of absence, 1948-1988
Box 473 Correspondence regarding employee orientation programs; college graduate training programs and courses; strikes; P&LE anniversaries and other employee events; safety equipment and programs; holidays and vacations; labor agreements; labor organizations, 1950-1992
Box 474 Medical forms; employment rates; applications; employment status updates; discipline reports; retirement, 1980s
Box 475 Applications for employment; agreement for machinists, sheet metal and electrical workers, and blacksmiths; employee job protection; affirmative action compliance program monthly report to personnel department, 1966-1990
Box 477 Locomotive and Car Department accident and personal injury reports, 1957-1960
Box 479 Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corporation hot slab movement; postage meter machine bills; supplementary pension-funded contributory retirement plan; allowances account for sick or dead employees; hot metal movements (McKeesport, Neville Island, etc), 1936-1985
Box 481 Transport Workers Union of American claims, 1965-1968
Box 490 Correspondence concerning Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel rail rolling mill - Monessen, PA; pension agreement; International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers; personal injury payments; Employee Protective Fund; bargaining proposals to non-operating unions, 1966-1992
Box 492 Claims awaiting appeal; files of various railroad and transportation organizations; organization claims; district group advertisements and awards; vacation agreements for mechanical dept. and Maintenance of Way, 1980s
Box 495 Equal opportunity; labor allowances; employee files, Union Agreements and correspondence, 1986-1992
Box 497 Transport Workers Union of American claims case files, 1958-1961
Box 498 Car and Engineering dept cards of employees out of service prior to 1950, 1880s-1950
Box 499 Personal injury and relative insurance paperwork, Association of American Railroads efficiency research program, AAR manual of standards and records practices, vendor offers, 1972-1984
Box 500 Employees and seniority rosters 1931, 1937, 1940, 1943, 1982-1987, 1931-1987
Box 501 Legal notes to CSX regarding agreements with ARASA; pay; health services; 1990 review of labor and union agreements, 1990-1992
Box 502 Personnel records dealing with retirement & out of service; employee card index (1880s-1950) deceased, furloughed, etc., 1880s-1982
Box 504 Director of Labor Relations and Personnel, employee time claims and grievances, 1959-1960
Box 507 Employee personnel records, 1970s
Box 508 Time claims and grievances (P&LE vs. various unions), 1959-1965
Box 509 Car department out of service employee cards Slaab - Zrytka, 1903-1940
Box 510-511 Time claims and grievances (P&LE vs. various unions), 1950-1970
Box 512 Injury and illness reports and statements (1977-92); authorized positions (1984-86); freight car repairs and mechanical department requests for appropriation (1986-89); sale of cars to Chessie system (1986-89); pollution notices (1981-86); Mass Transit Clean Air Act (1974); caboose safety complaints (1968-85); power plants (1963-79); electricity (1968-86); AAR committees, correspondence and reports (1979-91); employee travel and business expenses (1985-92); utility contracts and agreements, 1963-1991
Box 538 Out of service employee cards AC-ZY, 1910-1950
Box 542b Operations; seniority rosters; department agreements; employment, 1979-1988
Box 543a Various departmental agreements; employee pensions retirement, and hiring; interchange agreements and car reports, 1982-1988
Box 543b Human resources; payroll; instructions to yard masters and clerks; office equipment, 1982-1988
Box 546a Human resources, trainmen agreements, interchange agreements and instructions, movement of cars, tender notices, 1970-1979
Box 547a Time claims, "safety first" correspondence; personal injury; car accidents; general notices and bulletins; bills; cost operations, 1973-1979
Box 557 Car file individual updates; bundles of daily report of employees working punitive times, 1986-1988
Box 559 Monthly safety meeting; accident reports, lost time, handwritten call directory file book (R.I.Z.), benefits, monthly time book ledger, 1957-1990
Box 561 Employee record cards including disciplinary action, carols, furloughs, returns, Ba-Mc, 1880-1960s
Box 562 Employee record cards including disciplinary action, carols, furloughs, returns, Na - Var, 1880-1960s
Box 563 Out of service employee record cards including disciplinary action, carols, furloughs, returns, A - Wo, 1880-1960s
File-cabinet 582 Index of out of service employees from all divisions (track, bridges, buildings, signal, and communications), 1900-1990
File-cabinet 583 Index of out of service, retired employees from all divisions (track, bridges, buildings, signal, and communications), 1900-1990
File-cabinet 584 Index of working & furloughed employees from all divisions (track, bridges, buildings, signal, and communications); small binders of employee addresses and emergency data, 1900-1990
File-cabinet 585 Index of deceased employees from all divisions (track, bridges, buildings, signal, and communications), 1900-1990
Box 620-626 Employee (Crew) Records, 2-20, 24-28, 54-72,   1873-1961
Box 627 Employee (Crew) Records, 73-74 [1905-1940]; Record of Telegraphers [1882-1924]; P&LE Division Records Books [1926-1927], 1882-1940
Box 628 Engineers Record Book [1936-1961]; Index to Suspended Discipline Record [1957-1962]; Foreign Record Book [1955-1965], 1936-1965
Box 629 B&O Employee Records Book [1934-1961]; Employee (Crew) Records [1883-1916]; Employee (telephone and telegraph operators) Records [1910-1919], 1883-1961
Box 630 Engineers and Firemen, Books 29, 30, 33 [1938-1961]; Clerks, Book 31 [1941-1959]; Trainmen, Book 32 [1941-1961]; Firemen, Book 34 [1944-1961], 1938-1961
Box 631 Clerks and Operators, Book 35 [1943-1960]; Rejections, Book 36 [1947-1960]; Employee (Crew) Record Books, Books 51-53 [1900-1936], 1900-1960