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Subject Index to Volume
Monthly Labor Review
January to December 1955
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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
James P. Mitchell, Secretary
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS
Ewan Clague, Commissioner
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Subject Index to Volume 78
January to December 1955
[Issues and page numbers in italics]
ABSENTEEISM:
Sickness. Telephone industry, New York Telephone
Co. Trends and individual susceptibility. Dis
tribution of absentees. July 798-800.
Women workers. Due to sickness. New York
Telephone Co. July 799.
Accident statistics:
Manufacturing. Injury-frequency rates. Third quar
ter 1954, selected industries; average 1953; first 9
months of 1953 and 1954. Feb. 209-211.
•------------ Fourth quarter 1954 and averages 1953
and 1954 (preliminary), selected industries. May
557-559.
------------ First quarter 1955 and average 1954,
selected industries. Aug. 910-912.
------------ Second quarter 1955, average 1954, and
first 6 months 1954 and 1955, selected industries.
Nov. 1262-1264.
Work injuries. All workers, by industry division,
type of disability, 1954 (preliminary), and 1953.
Apr. 480-481.
----- Revised method for computing injury-severity
and injury-frequency rates effective Jan. 1955.
May 565-567.
Age as a factor in saving and spending patterns.
Nov.
1240-1244.
Aircraft. See under Collective bargaining and agreements;
Labor-management disputes; Unemployment benefit
plans, supplemental; Wages and hours.
Aircraft parts. See under Collective bargaining and
agreements; Wages and hours.
Airlines. See under Collective bargaining and agreements;
Labor-management disputes.
Alaska. See Publications; see also Territories under De
partment of Labor; Economic characteristics; Employ
ment; Labor force; Labor-management relations;
Legislation; Wages and hours.
Aluminum.
See under Collective bargaining and
agreements.
American Federation of Labor.
See under Labor
organizations.
American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial
Organizations. See under Labor organizations—Merg
er negotiations.
American Management Association (see also Factory
workers). Members view collective bargaining session
over closed TV circuit. Mar. iv.
Antitrust laws. National committee to study antitrust
laws; final report, Mar. 1955. June 690.
Apparel. See under Benefits and benefit plans; Collective
bargaining and agreements; Conciliation and arbitra
tion; Labor-management cooperation; Wages and hours.
Apprenticeship:
International annual competitions, Madrid, 1955,
objectives of. Aug. 917.
Programs. 1954. Number of programs and partici
pants. Developments in petroleum, construction,
Government. Excerpted from Secretary of Labor’s
annual report, fiscal 1954. May 564.
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Arbitration. See Conciliation and arbitration.
Atomic energy projects. See under Collective bargaining
and agreements.
Automatic-control devices and machines. Improvements
in; uses of. June 640-642.
Automation (see also collective bargaining and agreements
—Automobiles, Ford-General Motors contracts; see
also under Economic report, Joint Congressional Com
mittee on the):
Developments, factors in estimating rate of growth,
implications. June 687-644.
Implications of. Impact on industrial operations and
labor force; integration into economy. Excerpts
from papers read at CIO Conference on Automation,
Apr. 1955. May 519-527.
----- Impact on industrial relations, labor force, job
classifications and displacements. Excerpts from
paper presented at meeting of Industrial Relations
Research Association, Dec. 1954. Feb. 165-169.
Automobile parts. See under Collective bargaining and
agreements; Unemployment benefit plans, supplemental.
Automobiles. See under Collective bargaining and agree
ments; Labor-management disputes; Prices; Retire
ment; Unemployment benefit plans, supplemental;
Wage chronologies.
BAKERIES. See under Collective bargaining and agree
ments.
Benefits and benefit plans, United States (see also specific
types of):
Apparel. Men’s dress shirts and nightwear. Pro
visions for paid holidays, vacations, insurance and
pension plans, May 1954. Jan. 84.
Automobiles. Ford Motor Co. (see also under Wage
chronologies). Severance pay for salaried em
ployees. Nov. 1285-1286.
----- General Motors Corp. See under Wage
chronologies.
Chemical products. See under Collective bargaining
and agreements.
Cigars. Provisions for paid holidays, vacations,
insurance and pension plans, Apr. 1955. Dec. 1459.
Contract-cleaning services. Provisons for paid holidays,
vacations, insurance and pension plans, selected
cities, summer 1955. Dec. 1462.
Furniture. Unupholstered wood. Provisions for paid
holidays, vacations, insurance and pension plans,
May 1954. Jan. 71-73.
Leather. Provisions for paid holidays, vacations,
profit sharing, insurance benefits, May 1954. Feb.
203-204.
Machinery, except electrical. Provisions for paid
holidays, vacations, 1954-55. July 781.
Meatpacking. Armour and Co. See under Wage
chronologies.
----- Swift and Co. See under Wage chronologies.
Office-building services. See Contract-cleaning serv
ices, this section.
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Benefits and benefit plans, etc.—Continued
Paper and pulp. Hospitalization and sick leave plans
under agreements between International Paper Co.
and 2 AFL unions. July 816.
Structural clay products. Provisions for paid holi
days, vacations, insurance and pension plans, May
1954. Jan. 79.
Textiles. Cotton. Provisions for paid holidays,
vacations, insurance and pension plans, Nov. 1954.
May
536-537.
----- Synthetic. Provisions for paid holidays, vaca
tions, insurance and pension plans, Nov. 1954.
June 662—663.
----- Woolen and worsted. American Woolen Co.
See under Wage chronologies.
Trenton, N. J., manufacturing plants. Effect on
labor mobility. Feb. 194.
Vacations and holiday provisions liberalized in col
lective bargaining agreements, Jan.-June 1955.
Oct. 1124.
Benefits and benefit plans, Puerto Rico. Vacations and
sick-leave practices and statutory provision for sever
ance pay. Dec. 1364-1365.
Benefits and benefit plans, foreign countries. Sweden.
Report on 2 surveys covering employer-financed fringe
benefits for office and manual workers, 1952-53. Apr.
452.
Benefits, “fringe”. See specific type of benefit.
Bibliographies:
Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico. See Publications.
See Book Reviews and Notes, each issue.
“Blue collar” workers. See under Court decisions—
Government.
Bolivia. See under Labor-management cooperation, for
eign countries.
Breweries.
See under Collective bargaining and
agreements.
Building. See Construction.
Building trades. See Construction under Labor-manage
ment cooperation; Wages and hours.
Bureau of Labor Statistics. See Labor Statistics, Bureau of.
Business cycles. Effect on employment, layoffs, labor
costs, hourly earnings. Patterns of 5 cycles, 1919-38.
Mar.
288-292.
CANADA. See under Foreign countries under Labormanagement disputes; Labor organizations.
Canning and preserving. See under Collective bargaining
and agreements.
Cement. See under Collective bargaining and agreements.
Chamber of Commerce of the United States. See mini
mum wage, U. S.—Federal.
Checkoff (see also Labor-management relations, foreign
countries—Latin America). Coverage in collective
bargaining agreements, 1954. June 657-658.
Chemical products. See under Collective bargaining and
agreements; Labor-management disputes; Wages and
hours.
Child labor. See under Legislation, U. S., State.
Child labor, territories:
Alaska. See Legislation, U. S., State.
Hawaii. See Legislation, U. S., State.
Chile. See under Labor-management disputes, foreign
countries.
China, Communist. See under Wages and hours, foreign
countries.
Chronologies:
Labor events. See Chronology of Recent Labor
Events, each issue.
Wage. See Wage chronologies.
Cigars. See under Benefits and benefit plans; Wages and
hours.
City planning. Employment data used in land allocation.
Mar. 295.
Classification Act, Federal. See Government employees—
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Cleaning and dyeing. See under Wages and hours.
Clerical workers. Hawaii. See under Wages and hours,
territories.
Coal mining. See Mining under Collective bargaining
and agreements; Labor turnover; Minimum wage—
Federal; Wages and hours.
Co-determination. Germany (Western Zone). Extended
to government workers through personnel councils.
Dec. 1470-1471.
Collective bargaining and agreements, United States
{see also Conciliation and arbitration; Labor-manage
ment disputes.) :
Aircraft. AFL Machinists with: McDonnell Air
craft Corp., St. Louis; Lockheed Aircraft Service,
Inc., Calif.; Solar Aircraft Co., San Diego; Pacific
Airmotive Corp., Calif., Mar. 1955. May 578.
----- Beech Aircraft, Wichita, and AFL Machinists,
Sept. 1955. Nov. 1285.
----- Bell Aircraft Corp., Buffalo and Fort Worth,
and CIO auto Workers, Jan. 1955. Mar. 336.
----- Boeing Airplane Co., Wichita and Seattle, and
AFL Machinists. Wage increases, July 1955. Sept.
1034.
----- Cessna Aircraft Co., Wichita, and AFL Ma
chinists, July 1955. Sept. 1034.
----- Chance-Vaught Aircraft, Inc., Dallas, and CIO
Auto Workers, Mar. 1955. May 577-578.
----- Douglas Aircraft Co., Santa Monica and El
Segundo plants, Calif., and AFL Machinists, Dec.
1954. Long Beach, Calif., and Tulsa plants and
CIO Auto Workers, Mar. 1955. Feb. 220; May
577-578.
•----- Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corp. and CIO
Auto Workers, Nov. 1954. Jan. 102-103.
----- General Dynamics Corp., Convair Division,
San Diego, and AFL Machinists. Mar. 336-337.
----- Glenn L. Martin Co., Baltimore, and CIO Auto
Workers, Nov. 1954. Jan. 102.
----- Lockheed Aircraft Corp., Burbank and Palm
dale, Calif., and AFL Machinists, Dec. 1954;
Marietta, Ga. plant, Feb. 1955. Feb. 220.
----- North American Aviation, Inc., California and
Columbus, Ohio, and CIO Auto Workers, Dec.
1954. Feb. 220.
----- Republic Aviation Corp., Farmingdale, N. Y.,
and AFL Machinists. Apr. 461.
----- United Aircraft Corp., Pratt and Whitney
Divison of Connecticut, and AFL Machinists,
Jan. 1955. Feb. 220.
Aircraft parts. Thompson Products, Inc., and Air
craft Workers Alliance (Ind.). Agreement rejected
by union; new agreement ratified, Aug. 1955. Aug.
933; Oct. 1170.
Airlines. American Airlines and AFL Air Lines
Pilots, Jan. 1955. Settlement concerning nonstop
flights. Mar. 336.
----- American Airlines and CIO Transport Workers,
Mar. 1955. May. 577.
—— Pan American Airways and AFL Railway and
Steamship Clerks. Feb. 221.
----- Pan American Airways and Northeast Airlines
and AFL Air Line Pilots. Pension plan provisions.
July 815.
Aluminum. Aluminum Co. of America and CIO
Steelworkers and AFL Aluminum Workers, July
1955; and CIO Auto Workers, Sept. 1955. Sept.
1031; Nov. 1288.
----- Reynolds Metals Co. and CIO Steelworkers and
AFL Aluminum Workers, Aug. 1955. Oct. 11711172.
Apparel. Knitted Outerwear Manufacturers Asso
ciation of Philadelphia and AFL Ladies’ Garment
Workers, Sept. 1955. Nov. 1287.
----- Millinery. Eastern Women’s Headgear Asso
ciation of New York City and AFL Hatters.
Apr. 461.
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Collective bargaining and agreements, etc.—Continued
----- New York metropolitan area. 5 employer
associations and AFL Ladies’ Garment Workers,
Feb. 1955. Apr. 461.
Atomic energy projects. Carbide and Carbon Chem
ical Co., Oak Ridge, Tenn., and Paducah, Ky.,
and CIO Chemical Workers; Oak Ridge plant, and
AFL Atomic Trades and Labor Council, Nov. 1954.
Jan. 103.
----- Carborundum Metals $o., Jamestown, N. Y.,
and CTO Atomic Workers. Dec. 1492.
----- Union Carbide Nuclear Co., Oak Ridge, Tenn.,
Paducah, Ky., and CIO Atomic Workers. Dec.
1492.
Automobile parts. Dana Corp., Toledo, and CIO
Auto Workers. Oct. 1170.
----- Eaton Manufacturing Co. and Barry Nicholson
Co. and CIO Auto Workers, June 1955. Aug. 931.
----- Holley Carburetor, and Lyon, Inc., and CIO
Auto Workers, July 1955. Sept. 1033.
Automobiles {see also Seniority, this section). Chrys
ler Corp. and CIO Auto Workers. Sept. 1, 1955.
Jan. 101-102; Sept. 1032-1033; Oct. 1169.
------------ Workers laid off from tank plant to be
absorbed into other company plants. June 688.
----- Ford-General Motors contracts with CIO Auto
Workers. Potential effects on other employers,
automation, economic conditions, work incentives.
Excerpts from an address delivered before Inter
state Conference on Labor Statistics, July 6, 1955.
Oct. 1115-1118.
----- Ford Motor Co. and CIO Auto Workers.
3-year agreement, June 1955. Supplemental un
employment benefits; other provisions. Jan. 101-
102; Mar. iv; May iv; June in , 687-688; July
814-815; Aug. 875-880, 931. See also under Wage'
chronologies.
----- General Motors Corp. and CIO Auto Workers
and CIO Electrical Workers. 3-yr. contracts,
June 1955. Background, provisions. May iv;
June h i , 687-688; July 814-815; Aug. 875-877,
880-881, 931. See also under Wage chronologies.
----- Managerial prerogatives. Influence on per
sonnel, production, finance, purchasing, by CIO
Auto Workers. Feb. 170-174■
----- Studebaker-Packard Corp. Employees ratify
agreement on procedure for handling production
standards disputes. Apr. 462.
----- Willys Motor Corp. pays bonus. Jan. 104.
Bakeries. National Biscuit Co. and AFL Bakery
and Confectionery Workers. Dec. 1493.
BLS methods of collection and analysis of agree
ments. Background, concepts, scope, limitations.
June 673-678.
Breweries. California State Brewers Institute and
AFL Teamsters. June 686.
Canning and preserving. California Processors and
Growers Association and 21 northern California
frozen food packing companies, and AFL Cannery
Workers. June 686.
Cement. Pennsylvania. 17 plants and AFL Ce
ment Workers. May 579.
Chemical products. Rillino Dermetics Co. and CIO
Electrical Workers. Unique fringe benefit for wom
en workers. Oct. iv.
Communications. Bell Telephone Co. of Pennsyl
vania and independent union. Aug. 933.
——- Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. and
CIO Communications Workers. Jan. 103.
----- Michigan Bell Telephone Co. and CIO Com
munications Workers, Oct. 1955. Dec. 1490.
----- Northwestern Bell Telephone Co. and CIO
Communications Workers, Oct. 1955. Dec. 1490.
----- Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co., Southern
California, and Federation of Women Telephone
Workers (Ind.), Oct. 1955. Dec. 1490.
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Collective bargaining and agreements, etc.—Continued
----- Southern New England Telephone Co. and Con
necticut Union of Telephone Workers (Ind.), Mar,
1955. _ May 576.
----- United Telephone Co. of Kansas and Missouri
and CIO Communications Workers. Oct. 1174.
Construction. California. Associated General Con
tractors of America (Northern and Central Calif.)
and AFL Hod Carriers and Laborers, May 1955.
June 687. Contractor associations in 11 counties
and AFL Carpenters, May 1955. July 816. AFL
Painters in Los Angeles County. Pay increases,
June 1955. July 816.
----- New York associations of electrical contractors
and AFL Electrical Workers, Oct. 1955. Dec. 1492.
----- New York City contractors and AFL unions
representing construction tradesmen, July 1955.
Sept. 1036.
—— United Metal Trades Association and 7 AFL
unions in Oregon, Apr. 1955. June 687.
----- Washington, D. C., carpenters, AFL. Pay
increases, May 1955. July 816.
Containers. American Can and Continental Can
Cos., and CIO Steelworkers, Oct. 1955. Sept, iv;
Oct. 1171.
Dairies. Milk dealers of metropolitan New York,
and AFL Teamsters, Nov. 1954 and late 1955.
Jan. 102; Dec. 1492-1493.
----- Milk hauling firms of New York-New JerseyConnecticut area and AFL Teamsters. Oct. 1174.
Electrical machinery and equipment. Dumont Lab
oratories, Inc. of New Jersey and CIO Electrical
Workers, Mar. 1955. May 578.
—•— Electric Auto-Lite, Toledo, and CIO Auto
Workers. Pay cut to aid firm’s competitive
position, Oct. 1955. Dec. 1492.
----- General Electric Co. and CIO Electrical Workers,
Aug. 1955. Sept. 1033-1034; Oct. 1170.
----- General Electric Co. and Electrical Workers
(Ind.) Sept. 1034■
----- International Resistance Co., Philadelphia, and
CIO Electrical Workers. Placement of wage in
crease into union administered trust fund as un
employment benefits. June 687.
----- Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Co. and AFL
Teamsters, Feb. 1955. Apr. 461-462.
——■Otis Elevator Co. and CIO Electrical Workers,
July 1955. Sept. 1034■
----- Radio Corporation of America and Philco Corp.
and CIO Electrical Workers, May 1955. July 816.
----- Raytheon Manufacturing Co. and AFL Elec
trical Workers at Massachusetts plants. Fringe
benefits, Dec. 1954; wage increase, Sept. 1955.
Feb. 222; Nov. 1287.
----- Stromberg-Carlson Co. and Rochester Inde
pendent Workers Local, July 1955. Sept. 1034.
----- Western Electric Co. and CIO Communications
Workers. Oct. 1174.
----- Westinghouse Air Brake Co. and Electrical
Workers (Ind.). Oct. 1171.
----- Westinghouse Electric Co. and Independent
Salaried Unions, Oct. 1955. Dec. 1491.
Expirations or reopenings of major agreements, MayDec. 1955. Apr. 432-439.
Glass. Corning Glass Works and AFL Glass Workers,
Dec. 1954. Feb. 222•
----- Glass Container Manufacturers’ Institute and
AFL Glass Bottle Blowers, Mar. 1955. May 579.
----- Pittsburgh Plate Glass and Libbey-Owens-Ford
Glass Cos. and CIO Glass Workers, May 1955.
Contract extended and “individual savings” type
of supplemental unemployment pay plan added,
Sept. 1955. July 815; Nov. 1286.
------ Pressed and blown glass and glass-container
industries and AFL Glass Workers, Aug. 1955.
Oct. 1173-1174.
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Collective bargaining and agreements, etc.—Continued
Government. Federal. Tennessee Valley Authority
and AFL Trades and Labor Council, Dec. 1954.
Feb. 222.
----- Local. New York City Sanitation Dept, and
Building Service Employees, and Teamsters, both
AFL, Nov. 1954. Jan. 102.
Hats. AFL Hatters in St. Louis agree to increased
employer contribution to industry’s hat promotion
fund in lieu of higher pensions. Nov. 1288.
----- Men’s Hats, Inc., Baltimore, and AFL Hat
Workers. Supplemental unemployment pay plan,
Aug. 1955. Oct. 1178.
Health, insurance, pension plans in union contracts,
early 1954, by number covered, type of benefit.
Sept. 993-1000.
Hotels. New York City hotel association and AFL
Hotel Trades Council of New York. Nov. 1287.
Hotels and restaurants. Employers’ associations in
San Francisco and 7 AFL unions. Sept. 1036.
Jury leave, paid. Provisions in agreements, 1953.
May 545-547.
Leather. Massachusetts Leather Manufacturers As
sociation and CIO Leathers Workers. Aug. 934;
Nov. 1287.
Leave, paid. On death in family. Provisions in
agreements, 1953. Mar. 322—325.
Longshoring. Hampton, Va., Longshoremen (Ind.)
accept employer wage increase offer. Apr. 462.
----- New York Port. New York Shipping Association
and Longshoremen (Ind.). Contract concluded Nov.
1954 and rejected by union members Dec. 1954.
Second agreement ratified Jan. 1955. Jan. 62,
102; Feb. 221.
------------ Tugboat operators and United Marine
Division, AFL. Apr. 462.
------------ Tugboats. AFL Masters, Mates and
Pilots, representing deckhands and captains of
ferryboats and tugboats operated by 11 railroads,
Apr. 1955. June 687.
■
----- West Coast. Pacific Maritime Association and
Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union (Ind.),
Dec. 1954. Feb. 221.
Machine shops. CIO Auto Workers and a Michigan
machine shop. Provision for 40 hours call-in pay.
Apr. 460.
Machinery, except electrical. Contract coverage of
production workers, 1954-55. July 778, 780.
----- Office machines. National Cash Register Co.,
Dayton, and 2 independent unions, July 1955.
Sept. 1034-
— ----- Remington Rand, Inc., and AFL Machinists. Oct. iv.
Mail-order. See Retail trade, this section.
Manufacturing and nonmanufacturing. Extent of
agreements in 17 labor markets, by region,
selected industries, establishment size, 1953-54. Jan.
64 - 68 .
Maritime industries (see also Seniority, this section).
Atlantic and Gulf Coasts. Operators and CIO
and AFL officers’ unions, June 1955. July h i ;
Aug. 932.
------------Operators and CIO National Maritime
Union, June 1955. Apr. 460; July h i , 817;
Aug. 932.
----- West Coast. Bulk cargo ships—single con
tracts covering all workers. Pacific Far East
Lines and CIO Radio Association. May 578;
June 689. Pacific Maritime Association, American
President Lines, and Pacific Far East Lines, and
AFL Sailors’ Union, Sept. 1955. Sept. 1036; Nov.
1283.
-------------Pacific Maritime Association and AFL
and CIO maritime officers’ unions. Joint negotia
tions, July 1955. Sept. 1036.
Meatpacking. Armour and Co. and AFL Meat
Cutters and CIO Packinghouse Workers, July
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1955. Sept. 1031. See also under Wage chron
ologies.
----- Cudahy and Wilson Cos. and CIO Packinghouse
Workers, Aug. 1955. Oct. 1173.
----- Oscar Mayer and Co. and AFL Meat Cutters.
Oct. 1173.
----- Swift and Co. and CIO Packinghouse Workers,
AFL Meat Cutters, and Packinghouse Workers
(Ind.) Aug. 1955. Oct. 1178. See also under Wage
chronologies.
Metal products. Automotive Tool and Die Manu
facturers Association and CIO Auto Workers.
Wage increases and provisions for supplemental un
employment benefits, June 1955. Aug. 931-982.
----- Curtiss-Wright Corp., Aeronautical Division,
and CIO Auto Workers, Sept. 1955. Dec. 1491.
----- Kaiser Metal Products, Inc. and CIO Auto
Workers, July 1955. Sept. 1033.
----- Timken Roller Co. and CIO Steelworkers, Aug.
1955. Sept. 1082; Oct. 1172.
Mining. Bituminous. Mine Workers (Ind.) and
Northern Bituminous Coal Operators and Southern
Coal Producers Association, Aug. 1955. Oct. 1168.
----- Nonferrous. Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers’
(Ind.) and Anaconda Copper Co., July 1955. Aug.
980-981; Sept. 1032.
------------ Phelps Dodge Corp. and AFL unions,
July 1955. Sept. 1082.
Motion-picture production and distribution. Asso
ciation of Motion Picture Producers and Alliance
of Theatrical Stage Employees. Dec. 1492.
Newspapers. AFL Typographers and 9 New York
newspapers, Mar. 1955. May 578.
Office workers. Extent of agreements in 17 labor
markets and workers covered, by region and es
tablishment size, 1953-54. Jan. 65, 67-68.
Paper and pulp. International Paper Co., Northern
Division, and 3 AFL unions, June 1955. Aug. 933.
----- International Paper Co., Southern Kraft Divi
sion, and 2 AFL unions. July 816.
----- Pacific Coast Manufacturers Association in 3
western States and 45 locals of 2 AFL unions, May
1955. July 816.
----- Southern pulp mills. See under Seniority, this
section.
Petroleum. Major companies and independent
unions, Mar. 1955. May 577.
----- Several Texas firms and CIO Oil, Chemical and
Atomic Workers, Mar. 1955. May 577.
----- Shell Oil Co., Tex., and CIO Oil Workers. Non
discrimination agreement. Oct. 1175.
----- Sinclair Oil Co. and CIO Oil Workers, June
1955. Aug. 933.
Plumbing supplies. Crane Co. and CIO Steelworkers,
Oct. 1955. Dec. 1491.
Pottery. Potters Association and AFL Potters, May
1955. July 815-816.
Printing trades. Franklin Association, Chicago,
and 7 AFL printing-trades unions extend contracts,
Mar. 1955. May 578.
----- New York Employing Printers Association,
Printers League Section, and AFL Typographers.
Nov. 1288.
Railroads. AFL Switchmen and western railroads.
Company offer; agreement, Oct. 1955. June 688;
July 815; Nov. 1284; Dec. 1488-1489.
----- Carriers and operating brotherhoods, Oct. 1955.
Dec. 1488-1489.
----- Conductors and Brakemen (Ind.) request wage
increase from major railroads. Oct. 1172.
•----- Locomotive Engineers (Ind.) and Nation’s
railroads, Oct. 1955. Dec. 1488-1489.
----- Nonoperating railroad unions and Nation’s
railroads. Cost-of-living provisions, Dec. 1954.
Feb. 221.
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Collective bargaining and agreements, etc.—Continued
----- Railroad Trainmen (Ind.). Wage proposal;
counteroffer; settlement, Oct. 1955. Aug. 932;
Nov. 128^; Dec. 1488-1489.
----- Railroad Trainmen (Ind.) and Nation’s railroads.
Pay differentials based on length of train. July 815.
----- Railway Employes Dept., AFL, announced
stabilization of employment for shopcraft workers
as 1955 objective. Apr. 460.
Refractories. Construction Workers (Ind.) and 8
refractories, July 1955. Sept. 1031.
Retail trade. A & P Supermarkets, New York and
New Jersey, and AFL Meat Cutters. July 816.
----- Montgomery Ward Warehouses and AFL Team
sters, Mar. 1955. June 686.
---- - Warehouse workers. Distributors Association
of Northern California and Longshoremen’s and
Warehousemen’s Union (Ind.), June 1955. Aug.
933.
Rubber. CIO Rubber Workers and B. F. Goodrich
Co., Firestone Tire and Rubber Co., and Goodyear
Tire Co. Benefits and benefit plans agreements,
June 1955; wage agreements, Aug. 1955. Aug.
933; Nov. 1286.
----- Inland Rubber Manufacturing Co. and CIO
Rubber Workers, July 1955. Sept. 1034■
----- United States Rubber Co. and CIO Rubber
Workers. Improved pension and insurance agree
ment, July 1955; wage provisions, Aug. 1955.
Sept. 1034; Nov. 1286.
Seniority. Automobiles. American Motor Corp.
and CIO Auto Workers agree on seniority inte
gration for workers who transfer from firm’s closeddown Hudson plant in Detroit to its Wisconsin
plants. Feb. iv; June 688.
----- Contract provisions as factors in layoffs. Senior
ity unit, length of service, superseniority. Waiver
in emergency situations. July 766-771.
----- Maritime. Atlantic and Gulf Coast District of
AFL Seafarers ratify seniority agreement, Mar.
1955. May 578.
----- Southern pulp mills. Operation of “Line of
Progression” system for promotions and layoffs.
July 757-765.
Shipbuilding. Bethlehem Steel Co. and CIO Marine
and Shipbuilding Workers in 8 East Coast ship
yards, July 1955. Sept. 1031.
----- General Dynamics Corp., Electric Boat Division,
and AFL Metal Trades Council, Aug. 1955. Oct.
1172.
----- Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co.
and Peninsula Shipbuilding Association (Ind.) Nov.
1954. Feb. 222.
----- Todd Shipyards of Brooklyn and Hoboken and
CIO Marine and Shipbuilding Workers. Oct.
1172.
----- West Coast shipyard operators and AFL Metal
Trades Council, May 1955. July 816.
----- West Michigan Shipyards, Inc. and AFL Marine
Council. Reduction in earnings to aid expansion
of employers’ operations, Oct. 1955. Dec. 1491—
1492.
Shoes. CIO Shoe Workers and 60 Massachusetts
shoe firms. Mar. 337.
----- Shoe Manufacturers Association and Shoe
Workers Union (Ind.), Lewiston, Maine. Nov. 1287.
Steel. CIO Steelworkers and major steel producers.
Wage increase provisions, July-Aug. 1955. July
817; Aug. 930; Sept. 1031.
----- Weirton Steel Co., West Virginia and Ohio,
and Armco Steel Corp. and independent unions.
Sept. 1031.
Sugar refining. Pennsylvania Sugar Refinery of
Philadelphia and AFL Longshoremen, Sept. 1955.
Nov. 1288.
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Collective bargaining and agreements, etc.—Continued
Textiles. Carpets. Bigelow-Sanford plants, Am
sterdam, N. Y., and Thompsonville, Conn., and CIO
Textile Workers. Mar. 337.
----- Cotton. Dan River Mills, Inc., Danville, Va.,
and AFL Textile Workers, Sept. 1955. Nov. 1287.
------------Northern cotton-textile manufacturers no
tify CIO Textile workers of contract terminations.
Mar. IV; Apr. 460.
----- Dyeing and finishing plants. New York, New
Jersey, and Pennsylvania (300 plants); 4 plants in
Rhode Island, Connecticut, and other New Eng
land plants, and CIO Textile Workers, Oct. 1955.
Dec. 1492.
----- President of CIO Textile Workers Union
indicates union will not ask for wage increases in
1955. Apr. 460.
----- Synthetic. American Viscose Corp. and CIO
Textile Workers, Jan. 1955; Apr. 1955. Mar. 337;
June 687.
------------Celanese Corp. of America, Cumberland,
Md., and Rock Hill, N. C., and CIO Textile Work
ers, Feb. 1955. Apr. 461.
------------ Industrial Rayon Corp. and CIO Textile
Workers, 5 mills in Ohio and Virginia, Aug. 1955.
Oct. 1173.
----- Woolen and worsted. American Woolen Co.
See under Wage chronologies.
Transportation (see also Railroads, this section).
Transit, local. Boston Transit Authority and AFL
Street Railway and Motor Coach Employees, June
1955. Aug. 934•
------------Chicago Transit Authority and AFL
Street Railway and Motor Coach Employees,
July 1955. Sept. 1035.
------------Cleveland transit system and AFL Street
Railway and Motor Coach Employees. Agree
ment in compliance with arbitration award, July
1955. Sept. 1035.
------------New York Transit Authority and CIO
Transport Workers. June 688; Oct. 1173; Nov.
1283-1284-
------------Philadelphia Transportation Co. and CIO
Transport Workers, Jan. 1955. Mar. 336.
------------Springfield, Mass, transportation company
and AFL Street Railway and Motor Coach Em
ployees. Sept. 1035-1036.
----- Trucking. Chicago Truck Drivers (Ind.) and
local cartage firms, Jan. 1955. Mar. 335.
------------4 employer groups and AFL Teamsters,
midwestern and southern States, Jan. 1955. Mar.
335.
------------Motor Transport Labor Relations, Inc.
and 7 AFL Teamster locals, Philadelphia area
Dec. 1954. Feb. 221.
Transportation equipment (see also Automobiles and
Automobile parts, this section):
----- Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Co. and
CIO Steelworkers, Aug. 1955. Oct. 1172.
----- White Motor and Kelsey-Hayes Wheel Cos.
and CIO Auto Workers, July 1955. Sept. 1033.
Union security and checkoff provisions in manufac
turing and nonmanufacturing industries, by in
dustry and union affiliation, 1954. June 649-658.
Utilization and limitations of BLS statistical series.
Jan. 46-47-
Wage and supplementary benefit changes. First
quarter 1955. July 797. Jan.-June 1955. Oct.
1123-1125.
Collective bargaining and agreements, territories. Alaska.
See Labor-management relations, territories.
Collective bargaining and agreements. Puerto Rico.
Nature of. Rights of workers and employers. Dec.
1361, 1365.
Collective bargaining and agreements, foreign countries.
Greece. Free bargaining system established by law.
Dec. 1471-1472.
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Committee on Government Contracts, President’s. See
conventions, meetings, etc.
Committee on the Economic Report, Joint Congressional.
See Economic Report, Joint Congressional Committee
on the.
Communications. See under Collective bargaining and
agreements; Labor-management disputes; Labor-man
agement relations; Labor turnover; Wages and hours.
Communism in unions. See under Labor organizations.
Competition:
Automobile industry. Influence on, by CIO Auto
Workers. Feb. 171-172.
Labor market. See Manufacturing—Trenton, N. J.
Conciliation and arbitration, United States:
Airlines. See under Labor-management disputes.
Apparel. New York blouse manufacturers and AFL
Ladies’ Garment Workers. Imports from Japan.
Award. Nov. iv; Dec. 1494Department stores. Macy and Co., New York City,
and CIO Department Store Workers. Award.
Oct. 1174-
Laundries. Los Angeles. Wage adjustment peti
tion denied. Nov. 1287-1288.
Lumber. Northwest. Douglas fir industry and
CIO Woodworkers and AFL Lumber and Sawmill
Workers. Factfinding Board’s recommendations,
Dec. 1954; union ratification pending. Feb. 222228.
Railroads. Conductors and Brakemen (Ind.) and
major railroads. Dispute over wage formula
based on size of locomotive. Emergency Board
appointed, Nov. 1954; recommendations, Apr. 1955;
further negotiations, agreement, May 1955. Jan.
108; Mar. 336; Apr. iv; May 577; June 688; July
815.
----- Firemen and Enginemen (Ind.) and Nation’s
carriers. Wage inequities. Emergency Board rec
ommendations, Aug. 1955; agreement, Oct. 1955.
Mar. 336; Aug. 932; Oct. 1172; Nov. 1284; Dec.
1488-1489.
----- Louisville and Nashville Railroad. See under
Labor-management disputes.
—— New York Central and Conductors and Brakemen (Ind.). Emergency Board appointed to settle
operating rules dispute. Oct. 1172.
----- Nonoperating unions and major railroads.
Emergency Board recommendations for wage
“package” increase, Dec. 1955. Dec. 1447.
----- Pennsylvania Railroad. Strike threatened by
CIO Transport Workers, Sept. 1955. Emergency
Board appointed. Oct. 1173; Nov. 1284.
----- Pullman Co. and Conductors and Brakemen
(Ind.). Emergency Board recommendations, Nov.
1954. Jan. 103.
----- Railway Express Agency and AFL Teamsters.
Emergency Board recommendations, Aug. 1955.
July iv; Oct. 1172.
Textiles. Forstmann Woolen Co. and CIO Textile
Workers. Award, Dec. 1954. Feb. 222.
Conciliation and arbitration. Puerto Rico. Status of,
and services offered. Dec. 1361.
Conciliation and arbitration, foreign countries. France.
Procedure for settling labor-management differences.
Government decree, May 1955. Aug. 915.
Congress of Industrial Organizations. See under Labor
organizations.
Construction (see also Apprenticeship; Housing; also under
Collective bargaining and agreements; Labor-manage
ment cooperation; Wages and hours):
Building permit activity. Number of new dwelling
units, by ownership, type of structure, and location
in metropolitan areas. Monthly, last 9 months.
See Current Labor Statistics, table F-4, Jan.Alar. issues. Series discontinued with Sept. 1954
data.
—— Valuation, by class of construction and geo
graphic region. Monthly, last 9 months. See
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Current Labor Statistics, table F-5, Jan.-Mar.
issues, table F-4, Apr.-Dec. issues (includes 1954
total).
----- Valuation, by class of construction, type of
building, and location in metropolitan areas.
Monthly, 9 most recent months. See Current
Labor Statistics, table F-3, Jan.-M ar. issues.
In Apr. issue, series incorporates revisions in valu
ation classification (see below).
----- Valuation, by metropolitan-nonmetropolitan
area groups and State. Annual, 1954; monthly,
last 9 months. See Current Labor Statistics, table
F-5, Apr.-Dec. issues.
——- Valuation, by ownership, class of construction,
and type of building. Annual, 1954; monthly,
last 9 months. See Current Labor Statistics,
table F-3, A p r —Dec. issues.
Expenditures. Public and private. New, by type.
Annually, 1953 and 1954; monthly, 13 most recent
months. See Current Labor Statistics, table F -l,
each issue.
Federally financed. New. Value of contracts
awarded and force-account work started, by type.
Annually, 2 most recent years; monthly, 13 most
recent months. See Current Labor Statistics,
table F-2, Jan.-Mar. issues. Replaced by public
construction series (see below) in the Apr. issue.
Nonfarm dwelling units started. Privately and
publicly owned, by location in metropolitan areas
and geographic regions, and estimated cost. Month
ly, Jan. 1954 through most recent month in Jan.
and Feb. issues. Annually, 1950-54; monthly,
Jan. 1953 to most recent month in Mar.-Dec.
issues. See Current Labor Statistics, table F-7,
J a n —Feb. issues; table F—6, Mar.—Dec. issues.
Privately and publicly financed (owned), by urban
and rural location. Number and estimated cost.
Annually, specified years, 1925-53; monthly, 1953.
See Current Labor Statistics, table F-6, Jan.Feb. issues. Discontinued.
Public. Contract awards, by ownership and type.
Annually, 1 or 2 most recent years; monthly, 13
most recent months. See Current Labor Statistics,
table F-2, Apr.-Dec. issues.
Construction equipment. See under Wages and hours—
Machinery, except electrical.
Consumer Price Index. See under Prices.
Containers. See under Collective bargaining and agree
ments; Unemployment benefit plans, supplemental.
Contract-cleaning services. See under Benefits and benefit
plans; Wages and hours—Office building.
Conventions, meetings, etc.:
American Federation of Labor and Congress of
Industrial Organizations. First constitutional con
vention, Dec. 5, 1955. Dec. 1445.
Communications Workers, CIO, June 1955. Sum
mary of reports; bargaining program planned and
other resolutions. Aug. 908-905.
Conference on Automation, CIO, Apr. 1955. Ex
cerpts from papers delivered. May 519-527.
Congress of Industrial Organizations, 16th annual
convention, Dec. 1954. Summary of proceedings.
Feb. 183-187.
Government Contracts, President’s Committee on.
One-day conference to study ways of eliminating
job discrimination, Oct. 25, 1954. Dec. 1494Industrial Relations Research Association. Ex
cerpts from papers presented. Annual meeting,
Dec. 1954. Feb. 159-174■ Spring meeting, Apr.
1955. June 645-648.
International Confederation of Free Trade Unions.
Fourth World Congress, May 1955. American
delegation attends—their aims and achievements.
Mar. iv ; May
hi;
June iv.
------------Participation, issues, policies discussed.
July 785-787.
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Conventions, meetings, etc.—Continued
International Labor Organization, 38th Conference
of, June 1955. Summary of proceedings and
actions. June iv; Aug. 894-899.
Interstate Conference on Labor Statistics, July 1955.
Excerpts from address delivered. Oct. 1115-1118.
Minority Groups Conference on equal employment
opportunities, July 1955. Summary of speeches.
Sept. 1017-1019.
Wisconsin, University of, Industrial Relations In
stitute, Julv 1955. Excerpts from addresses de
livered. Oct. 1182-1189.
Cost of living. See Prices—Consumer Price Index;
Wages and hours—Cost-of-living wage escalation.
Court decisions:
Anthracite Board of Conciliation of Pennsylvania.
Authority to settle disputes sustained. (Pa.
County Ct.) June 690.
Fair Labor Standards Act. Coverage. Agricultural
exemptions for industrialized farming operations.
(U. S. Sup. Ct.) Aug. 925-926.
------------ Employees of company operating bunk
houses and mess hall facilities for mining company.
(U. S. Ct. of App.) Nov. 1279-1280.
------------ Employees of hospital owned and operated
by mining company. (U. S. Ct. of App.) Nov.
1280.
—--------- - New construction for improving existing
facilities of intracoastal waterway. (U. S. Sup.
Ct.) Aug. 926.
----- Overtime provisions. Exemptions from, sar
dine cannery employees. (U. S. Ct. of App.)
Feb. 212.
Fifth amendment. General Electric Co’s policy for
employees who refuse to testify. (U. S. Dist. Ct.)
Mar. 838.
Fur and Leather Workers (Ind.). See under Labor
organizations.
Government “blue collar” workers. Holidays worked
during World War II. (U. S. Ct. of Claims)
Sept. 1086.
Hotel picketing in Florida. See under Labor-manage
ment disputes.
National Labor Relations Act. Back-pay award.
Excludes workmen’s compensation payments and
other “suitable” employment earnings. (U. S. Ct.
of App.) Oct. 1161—1162.
—— Back-pay award by NLRB for employees who
tried unsuccessfully to operate own business after
unfair discharge. (U. S. Ct. of App.) Sept. 1027.
----- Bargaining obligations. Employer, after repre
sentation election but before union certification.
(U. S. Sup. Ct.) Feb. 212-218.
------------Employer, after union violated no-strike
clause and 60-day notice provisons of act. (U. S.
Ct. of App.) Aug. 923.
--------- — Employer must furnish wage data for
individuals. (U. S. Ct. of App.) Feb. 214- Case
denied review. (U. S. Sup. Ct.) June 690.
——---—— Employer refusal to furnish financial data.
(U. S. Ct. of App.) Oct. 1158.
------------ Employer refusal to honor union-shop
contract with one union after another had been
certified as bargaining representative. (U. S. Ct.
of App.) Jan. 90-91.
----------- Employer refusal to invest agent with
sufficient authority to negotiate an agreement.
(U. S. Ct. of App.) Jan. 90.
------------Employer required to furnish wage infor
mation to “police” contract. (U. S. Sup. Ct.)
Dec. 1494•
------------ Union’s “harassing tactics” while negotiat
ing a new contract. (U. S. Ct. of App.) Dec. 1478.
—— Concerted activity. Employees violating pro
vision of agreement. (U. S. Ct. of App.) Sept.
1026-1027.
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Court decisions—Continued
------------Employer’s rule against distribution of
literature on company property by nonemployee
union organizers. (U. S. Ct. of App.) July 808
(2 cases); Oct. 1159-1160.
------------Picketing against certified union to cause
diminution of its membership. (U. S. Ct. of App.)
Sept. 1027.
----- Discrimination. Employer, with no-strike clause
in agreement, who discharged strikers opposing un
fair labor practices. (U. S. Ct. of App.) May 570.
------------Employer’s discharge of two employees
and job discontinuance for economic reasons.
(U. S. Ct. of App.) Dec. 1481.
----- Interference. Employer’s antiunion speech and
secret poll of employees’ union sentiments. (U. S.
Ct. of App.) Sept. 1026.
------------NLRB failure to clarify reasons for in
validating first representation election affected
results of second. (U. S. Ct. of App.) Dec. 1480.
----- Jurisdiction of courts. Federal district court
without power to enjoin proceedings of State court
at union request. (U. S. Sup. Ct.) June 679.
------------State court must decline jurisdiction over
secondary boycott resulting from jurisdictional
dispute. (U. S. Sup. Ct.) June 679-680.
------------State courts have authority to settle indi
vidual grievances based on employer’s failure to
comply with collective agreement terms. (U. S.
Sup. Ct.) June 679.
----- Jurisdictional standards of NLRB. 1954 stand
ards do not prevent enforcement of order issued
theretofore. (U. S. Ct. of App.) Dec. 1479.
----- Non-Communist affidavit. False affidavit of
Fur Workers’ (Ind.) president punishable by statu
tory criminal penalty rather than deprivation of
NLRB services to union. (U. S. Ct. of App.)
Apr. 453-454■ Conviction bars enforcement of
NLRB’s subsequent unfair labor practice order
against employer. (U. S. Ct. of App.) Dec. 1481—
1482 .
------------NLRB denied right to bar services to Mine,
Mill and Smelter Workers (Ind.) because its
secretary filed false affidavit. (U. S. Ct. of App.)
Dec. 1447.
------------ Officers, definition of.
(U. S. Ct. of App.)
Dec. 1447.
—— Reinstatement rights. Discharged strikers who
violated 60-day notice provision of act and union
contract clause. (U. S. Ct. of App.) July 807.
------------Employee, a Communist, who falsified
employment application, discharged by manufac
turer of antibiotics for military use. (Calif. Sup.
Ct.) Apr. 454■
-------------Employee discharged during grievance
presentation to manager. (U. S. Ct. of App.)
Oct. 1160-1161.
------------Employee discharged for violation of com
pany and union agreement rule. (U. S. Ct. of
App.) Aug. 922-928.
------------- Employee who used disrespectful language
toward employer, discharged while engaged in
organization campaign activity. (U. S. Ct. of App.)
May 570-571.
----- Representation election. Voting eligibility of
workers held responsible for violence during strike,
but not discharged. (U. S. Ct. of App.) Mar. 328.
----- Secondary boycott. Convictions against offi
cers and locals of Longshoremen (Ind.) of New
York reversed, June 1955. (U. S. Ct. of App.) (U.
S. Sup. Ct.) Aug. 985; Dec. 1498.
-------------Picketing construction site without clearly
disclosing that recognition is sought with primary
employers. (U. S. Ct. of App.) May 572.
----- Seniority. Contract clause giving control to
union. (U. S. Ct. of App.) Nov. 1275.
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Court decisions—Continued
Public Contracts (Walsh-Healey) Act. Textiles.
Cotton, silk, synthetic. Nationwide minimum
wage determination declared invalid. (U. S. Dist.
Ct.) Decision reversed, Nov. 1955. (U. S. Ct. of
App.) June 682, 690; Dec. 1447.
Right-to-work State law to be tested by U. S. Supreme
Court. Dec. 1447.
Unemployment compensation. Appeal Board must
clearly state reasons for claimant’s disqualification.
(N. Y. Sup. Ct., Appel. Div.) Aug. 925.
----- Appeal notice. Employer right to. (Mich. Cir.
Ct.) Aug. 925.
------------ Sufficient to meet requirements. (Ohio Ct.
of App.) Aug. 925
----- Arbitration award for wrongful discharge not
considered wages. (N. C. Super. Ct.) Feb. 215.
----- Claimant discharged after operation resulting
from injury on job. (Mich. Cir. Ct.) Sept. 1028.
----- Claimant dismissed after trying to withdraw
resignation. (Conn. Sup. Ct.) Aug. 925.
----- Claimant may restrict availability to part-time
work under certain labor market conditions. (N.
J. Sup. Ct.) June 682.
----- Claimant misled by erroneous information from
commission entitled to commission appeal hearing.
(Mich. Cir. Ct.) June 682.
----- Claimant with both regular and sideline jobs.
(Iowa Dist. Ct.) Dec. 1482.
■-----Claimant with family obligations may limit work
to second shift. (N. J. Super. Ct.) Sept. 1028.
----- Destruction of property through incompetence
not misconduct. (Mich. Cir. Ct.) Mar. 830.
----- Discharge for insubordination implies disobe
dience of employee. (Ohio Ct. of Com. Pleas)
Dec. 1483.
----- Earnings’ requirement after childbirth not
applicable to employee whose employer closed
plant. (Conn. Super. Ct.) Jan. 95.
----- Employee discharged for incompetence. (Pa.
Super. Ct.) Oct. 1168.
----- Handicapped worker. Claimant available for
work and able to perform certain jobs full time.
(N. C. Super. Ct.) Jan. 95.
----- Labor dispute. Discharged employees not in
volved in a walkout. (Wis. Sup. Ct.) June 681682.
------------ Employee with 2 bonafide employments
not required to sever connection with struck em
ployer. (Wash. Super. Ct.) Oct. 1163.
------------ Employees disqualified by strike cannot
also be disqualified for leaving work voluntarily.
(Ala. Sup. Ct.) Jan. 95.
------------ Employees laid off during tempoiary shut
down before union called industrywide strike.
(W. Va. Jud. Ct.) Feb. 215.
------------ Striker, replaced by employer, did not
quit voluntarily. (Ala. Ct. of App.) Aug. 925.
------------Strikers, not assigned work after full re
sumption of plant operation. (Mo. Ct. of App.)
Sept. 1028.
------------ Union members—unemployed prior to a
strike. (W. Va. Sup. Ct. of App.) Feb. 215.
------------Workers entitled to benefits after strike
until production resumes. (Mich. Cir. Ct.) Feb.
215.
----- Older worker unsuccessful in finding suitable
work after retirement and receipt of lump-sum
retirement payment. (Maine Sup. Jud. Ct.)
Sept. 1028.
----- Profit-sharing trust fund payment upon dis
missal. (Mass. Sup. Jud. Ct.) Mar. 330.
----- Quitting work. Arduousness of work “reasonable
cause.” (Ohio Ct. of Com. Pleas) Dec. 14821483.
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Court decisions—Continued
------------ Dissatisfaction with working conditions
sufficient cause. (Ohio Ct. of Com. Pleas) Mar.
330.
------------ Employee injured on job advised to do
lighter work after recovery. (Iowa Dist. Ct.)
Dec. 1482.
------------ Employee, physically disabled, quitting
work as bus driver, did public service. (Pa.
super. Ct.) Oct. 1163.
------------ Employer must prove claimant’s disquali
fication for voluntarily leaving. (Mich. Cir. Ct.)
June 682.
------------ Overtime work detrimental to health just
cause. (Ohio Ct. of Com. Pleas) Mar. 830.
------------ Refusal of transfer due to domestic cir
cumstances. (Pa. Super. Ct.) Jan. 95.
----- Retirement separation pay is not dismissal wages.
(Maine Super. Ct.) Jan. 96.
Veterans’ reemployment rights. Employer offer of
temporary work to veteran and denial of preservice
position. (U. S. Dist. Ct.) Oct. 1164.
----- Jurisdiction of court, under Universal Military
Training and Service Act, over employee discharged
during time of reservist training. Nov. 1278-1279.
----- Sales representative classed as employee and not
as independent contractor. (U. S. Ct. of App.)
Jan. 96-97.
----- Seniority ranking claimed by veteran as of date
on which he would have finished helper’s training
but for his military service. (U. S. Sup. Ct.)
May 573.
----- Veteran reemployed on a different shift.
S. Ct. of App.) Oct. 1164-
(U.
DAIRIES. See under Collective bargaining and agree
ments.
Department of Labor {See also Labor Statistics, Bureau of):
Apprentice-training programs, trends in. Excerpt
from annual report of Secretary, fiscal 1954. May
564.
Martin P. Durkin. Death of former Secretary, Nov.
1955. Dec. 1447.
Department of Labor, territories. Alaska. Establish
ment and duties. Dec. 1398-1399.
Department stores. See under Conciliation and arbitra
tion; Labor-management disputes.
Discrimination. See Collective bargaining and agree
ments—petroleum; Conventions, meetings, etc.—Minor
ity groups; Employment; Legislation, U. S., State—
Fair employment practices.
ECONOMIC characteristics, Alaska. Prevailing condi
tions and population. Dec. 1375-1380.
Economic conditions, United States:
Potential effects on, by Ford-General Motors con
tracts. Excerpts from address delivered at Inter
state Conference on Labor Statistics, July 1955.
Oct. 1116-1117.
Review by Joint Congressional Committee on the
Economic Report. Trends for 1955. May 562563.
Status of workers, production, prices, 1954.
175-176.
Feb.
Economic conditions, foreign countries. India. See La
bor organizations, foreign countries—India.
Economic Report, Joint Congressional Committee on the:
Automation. Summary of opinions expressed during
hearings on. Nov. i i i - iv ; Dec. 1488.
Report, Mar. 14, 1955. Summary of. Economic
conditions and prospects, and suggested future
programs. M ay 562-564Economic sector indexes, wholesale. See Prices, U. S.—
Wholesale.
Economics of Distribution Foundation. Support of, by
AFL Teamsters. May 580.
Economy of Puerto Rico. See Puerto Rico—Economy of.
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Education. See Migratory labor and School attendance
under Legislation, U. S., State.
Electric lamps. See under Wages and hours.
Electric utilities. See Wages and hours—Public utilities.
Electrical machinery and equipment. See under Collec
tive bargaining and agreements; Health and welfare
benefits and benefit plans; Labor-management disputes;
Labor-management cooperation; Unemployment bene
fit plans, supplemental.
Electronic technicians. See Labor mobility—Skilled
workers.
Employment, United States (see also Labor force; Labor
turnover):
BLS statistical series. Method of preparing, sources
of errors, revisions, efforts toward improvement.
Dec. I473-I477.
----- Plans and tests for processing statistics by elec
tronic computer. May 567-569.
Discrimination. Committee on Government Con
tracts, 1-day conference to further progress in
elimination of, Oct. 1955. Dec. 1494Government employees. Federal. Civilian workers. Ex
ecutive (Defense, Post Office, and all other agen
cies), legislative, and judicial branches for conti
nental United States, and Washington, D. C.
Annual averages, 2 most recent years; monthly, 13
most recent months. See Current Labor Statistics,
table A-5, each issue. See also Military personnel
this section.
------------ Percentage distribution of employees, by
grade. Selected periods, 1939-54. Apr. 432.
Guaranteed wage, relationship to. Excerpts from
paper presented at Industrial Relations Research
Association meeting, Dec. 1954. Feb. 164Machinery, except electrical. Percentage distribution
of production workers by straight-time average
hourly earnings, Jan. 1945, Apr. 1954. July 780.
Manufacturing. By State, annual averages, 2 most
recent years; monthly, 13 most recent months.
See Current Labor Statistics, table A-7, Mar.,
June, Sept., and Dec. issues.
—— Production workers, by industry group and
industry. Annual averages, 2 most recent years ;
monthly, 13 most recent months. See Current
Labor Statistics, table A-3, each issue.
----- Production workers (with weekly payrolls).
Indexes (1947-49=100). Annual averages, 1939
to most recent year; monthly, 13 most recent
months. See Current Labor Statistics, table A-4,
each issue.
■-----Trends, 1954 to June 1955. By industry group.
Oct. 1105-1108.
----- Women workers. See that title, this section.
Manufacturing plants of Trenton, N. J. Survey and
implications of practices, 1951-53. Feb. 192-195.
Military personnel. By branch. Continental United
States and elsewhere. Annual averages, 2 most
recent years; monthly, 13 most recent months.
See Current Labor Statistics, table A-5, each issue.
Mining. Production workers, by industry group and
industry. Annual averages, 2 most recent years;
monthly, 13 most recent months. See Current
Labor Statistics, table A-3, each issue.
Minority groups. See Conventions, meetings, etc.
Negro. Practices affecting, in 3 New Orleans com
panies, 1939-51. Summary of National Planning
Association study. Sept. 1020-1023.
New England. By industry groups, first quarter
1947, first quarter 1955. June 645.
Nonagricultural establishments. By industry divi
sion, group, and industry. Annual averages, 2
most recent years; monthly, 13 most recent months.
See Current Labor Statistics, table A-2, each issue.
----- By State. Annual averages, 2 most recent
years; monthly, 13 most recent months. See
Current Labor Statistics, table A-6, Mar., June,
Sept., and Dec. issues.
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Nonmanufacturing. Trends, 1954 to June 1955.
By industry. Oct. 1109-1111.
Puerto Ricans. Discrimination against. Factors
causing. Dec 1356-1358.
Statistics. Application of, in city planning and
policymaking in New York City. Mar. 293-296.
Women workers.
Manufacturing. Distribution,
United States and regions, Apr. 1954. Oct. 11311132.
Employment, territories:
Alaska. Federal civilian workers. By department
and classification, June 1954. Employee attitudes.
Dec. 1383-1387. (See also Labor force.)
Hawaii. See Labor force—Hawaii.
Employment, Puerto Rico:
Industrial distribution, Apr. 1940, 1950, 1954.
Dec. 1349-1350.
Status of, in 1953. Mar. 286-287.
Employment, foreign countries:
Japan. Mining and manufacturing industries, 1953,
by industry group and sex. May 549.
Soviet Union. Employment contracts, labor dis
cipline, penalties for violation. Aug. 900-902.
Engineering industry, Great Britain. See Labor-manage
ment relations, foreign countries—Great Britain.
Engineers. See under Manpower.
Equal pay. See under Legislation, U. S., State.
European Coal and Steel Community. See Housing, for
eign countries; Wage-price policy—Germany (Western
Zone).
European Economic Cooperation, Organization for. Study
comparing gross national product of United Kingdom,
France, Germany, Italy; purchasing power equivalents,
in United States dollars, of currencies in these countries,
1950, summary of. Apr. 417-430.
FACTORY workers (see also Wages and hours—Manu
facturing). Prediction of year-round salary payments
for workers made at American Management Association
meeting. Oct. iv; Nov. 1289.
Fair employment practices. See under Legislation, U. S.,
State; also Negro, and Puerto Ricans under Employ
ment.
Fair Labor Standards Act. See under Court decisions;
Legislation, U. S., Federal; Minimum wage.
Family income. See Income, family.
Farm equipment. See under Labor-management dis
putes; Unemployment benefit plans, supplemental.
Federal employees. See Government employees—Federal.
Federal Trade Commission. Restraint of trade complaint
filed against AFL Ladies’ Garment Workers, AFL
Teamsters, and 3 trade associations of Los Angeles.
June 690.
Fight-Blight Fund. Baltimore. Plan to improve hous
ing conditions and aid hardship cases in blighted areas;
problems incurred, assistance given, disposition of cases.
Aug. 882-888; Sept. 1001-1007.
Finance, insurance, real estate. See under Wages and
hours.
Firemen. See under Wages and hours.
Foundry molders. See Labor mobility—Skilled workers.
France. See European Economic Cooperation, Organiza
tion for; see also under Foreign countries under Govern
ment employees; Labor-management relations; Mini
mum wage.
Fringe benefits. See specific type of benefit; Benefits and
benefit plans.
Furniture. See under Benefits and benefit plans; Labormanagement cooperation; Wages and hours.
GAS utilités. See Wages and hours—Public utilities.
German Trade Union Federation. See Labor organiza
tions, foreign countries—Germany (Western Zone).
Germany. See European Economic Cooperation, Organi
zation for.
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Germany (Eastern Zone) (see also under Prices, foreign
countries). Government outlaws strikes. July iv.
Germany (Western Zone). See under Foreign countries
under Labor-management cooperation; Wages and
hours; also Wage-price policy.
Glass. See under Collective bargaining and agreements;
Unemployment benefit plans, supplemental.
Government Contracts, President’s Committee on. See
under Conventions, meetings, etc.
Government employees, United States (see also Wages
and hours—Firemen and Policemen). Federal (see
Apprenticeship—Programs; see also under Employ
ment; Wages and hours):
Postal employees. See Wages and hours—Govern
ment workers.
Proposals for salary increases for classified and postal
workers, Jan. 1955. Apr. 481.
Salary trends for classified employees, selected years,
1939-54. Apr. 481-483. _
Government employees, territories:
Alaska. Federal. See Employment, territories—
Alaska.
Hawaii. Total and Federal. Dec. 1419-1421.
Government employees, foreign countries. France. Pay
increases granted. July iv.
Great Britain. See European Economic Cooperation, Or
ganization for; also under Foreign countries under Labormanagement disputes; Labor-management relations.
Greece. Greek labor policy. Defined by Government
statement. Dec. 1471-1478.
Guaranteed wage (see also Unemployment benefit plans,
supplemental):
Economic effects of, on unemployment insurance and
employment. Excerpts from paper presented at
meeting of Industrial Relations Research Associ
ation, Dec. 1954. Feb. 168-164.
Worker and employer attitudes toward. Excerpt
from paper presented at meeting of Industrial Re
lations Research Association, Dec. 1954. Feb.
159-168.
HATS. See under Collective bargaining and agreements;
Labor-management disputes; Unemployment benefit
plans, supplemental.
Hawaii (see also Publications; Territories under Govern
ment employees; Labor force; Labor movement; Legis
lation; Wages and hours): Economy of. Determining
factors, growth, trends. Dec. 1409-1415.
Health and safety, occupational. See under Legislation,
U. S., State.
Health and welfare benefits and benefit plans (see also
specific types of):
American Federation of Labor Executive Council.
Proposals to safeguard union funds. Feb. i i i - iv ;
Apr. 460; July 817.
Apparel. 5 employer associations in New York City
metropolitan area and AFL Ladies’ Garment
Workers. Increases in employer payments for
insurance and pension benefits. Apr. 461.
----- Ladies’ Garment Workers, AFL. Plan to
maintain fleet of mobile health units for members.
Oct. iv.
------------ Temporary shift of lump sum death bene
fit payments for New York coatmakers from
retirement fund to health and welfare fund. Nov.
1288.
Automobiles. Ford Motor Co. Medical plan for
salaried employees. Oct. 1170.
----- Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Corp. and
CIO Auto Workers. Health, accident and sickness
disability, and hospital benefits increased. Aug.
880.
BLS techniques for collection and analysis of plans in
collective bargaining agreements. June 677-678.
Changes in labor-management agreements, first
quarter 1955. July 797. Jan.—June 1955. Oct.
1128- 1124.
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Health and welfare benefits and benefit plans—Continued
Congress of Industrial Organizations. Committee
on Ethical Practices. Investigation of misuse of
funds. Hearings, Nov. 1954; report to executive
board; recommendations for union action and
legislation. Jan. 100; Mar. 834; Feb. 184-185;
July 817-818.
Electrical machinery and equipment. General Elec
tric Co. and CIO Electrical Workers. Expanded
health and sick benefit plan including “catastrophe”
insurance, Aug. 1955. Oct. 1170; Nov. iv.
House of Representatives, subcommittee on investi
gation of health and welfare funds. Interim report
and recommendations. Mar. 334.
Mine Workers (Ind.). Proposal for new approach to
problems of health care for coal miners and their
families. Mar. 334•
New York State (see also Regulation, this section).
Coverage by industry, kind of benefits, type of
plans, June 1954. Aug. 905-907.
Office Workers, AFL. See under Labor organizations,
U. S.
Prevalence of health, insurance, pension plans in
union contracts, early 1954. Sept. 993-1000.
Railroad workers. 13 unions of nonoperating em
ployees and major carriers. Hospital, medical,
surgical insurance program for members and
dependents. Mar. 835-836.
Regulation. New York State. Insurance depart
ment recommends State laws governing union
welfare funds, Jan. 1955. Jan. 52; Mar. 834.
----- Senate Subcommittee on Welfare and Pension
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Funds. Report on abuse of private employee
plans. Recommendations. Jan. 1955. Apr. 484-487.
----- Washington. See Legislation, U. S., State—
Health and welfare funds.
Rubber. Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. and CIO
Rubber Workers. Sickness, accident, pensiofi
benefits increased, June 1955. July 815.
Television. AFL Television and Radio Artists and 4
networks agree on plan, Nov. 1954. Jan. 103.
Health insurance. Railroad workers. Sickness benefits
under Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act, fiscal
1954; 1947-54. May 561; Aug. 907-908.
Holidays, paid (see also Benefits and benefit plans): Pro
visions for, in 17 labor markets, 1954-55. Oct. 11221123.
Homebuilding market. Trends in 1955. Oct. 1112-1114.
Homework, industrial. See under Legislation, U. S.,
State.
Hotels. See under Collective bargaining and agreements;
Court decisions; Labor-management disputes; Wages
and hours.
Housing (see also Construction):
Baltimore. Improvement in blighted areas. See
Fight-Blight Fund.
Demand for, vacancy rate, mortgage credit, Govern
ment assistance, 1954-55. Oct. 1112-1114Housing, foreign countries. Europe, Western. Program
for, in mining and iron and steel areas. Apr. 448-449
INCOME, United States:
Distribution of, by age group. Nov. 1242, 1244Family. Distribution in United States. Trends,
concentration of, income tax liability, 1954. June
671-672.
Personal. Relationship to gross national product,
1929-53. Feb. 207-208.
Income, Puerto Rico. Family and per capita income,
1941, 1953. Dec. 1351-1853.
Income, foreign countries. Panama City. See Panama
City.
India. See under Labor organizations, foreign countries.
Industrial relations, United States (see also Labor-manage
ment relations):
Developments in. See Developments in Industrial
Relations, each issue.
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Industrial relations, United States—Continued
----- Annual review, 1954. Feb. 176-177.
Effects on, by automation. Excerpts from paper
presented at meeting of Industrial Relations
Research Association, Dec. 1954. Feb. 165-166.
Plant size. Effects of, on wages, personnel policies,
collective bargaining in Trenton, N. J., plants.
May 555-556.
Policies and practices of 82 manufacturing firms,
Trenton, N. J., 1951-53. Feb. 192-193.
Industrial relations, foreign countries. Germany (Western
Zone). Volkswagen firm announces acquisition of
American plant to assemble its cars for American market.
Oct. iv.
Industrial Relations Research Association. See under
Conventions, meetings, etc.
Injury-frequency rates. See Accident statistics.
Insurance (see also Benefits and benefit plans; Legislation,
U. S., Federal). Prevalence of plans in collective
bargaining agreements, early 1954. Sept. 993-997.
International Confederation of Free Trade Unions. See
under Conventions, meetings, etc.
International Labor Organization (see also under Conven
tions, meetings, etc.):
Constitutional changes considered. Apr. iv.
Petroleum committee conference, Venezuela, Apr.
1955. Apr. iv; May in .
Report on older workers, 1954; selected countries and
years. Aug. 916.
37th conference recommendations for paid vacations
for workers in Western Europe, June 1954. Jan.
88-89.
Interstate Conference on Labor Statistics. See under
Conventions, meetings, etc.
Italian refugees. See under Labor-management coopera
tion—Apparel, Tailors.
Italy. See under European Economic Cooperation,
Organization for; Labor organizations, foreign countries.
JAPAN. See under Wages and hours, foreign countries.
Jury leave, paid. See under Collective bargaining and
agreements.
LABOR conditions. New York port. Improvements in,
1954-55. Sept. 1014-1016.
Labor developments:
Review of, monthly. See Chronology of Recent
Labor Events; Developments in Industrial Rela
tions; Labor Month in Review, each issue.
Review of, 1954. Feb. 175-182.
Labor disputes. See Labor-management disputes.
Labor force. United States (see also Labor mobility):
Effect of automation on number, ability, job classi
fication of workers. Excerpts from paper pre
sented at meeting of Industrial Relations Research
Association, Dec. 1954. Feb. 166-168.
Effect on, by automation. Excerpts from papers pre
sented at CIO Conference on Automation.
May
522-523, 527.
Job finding and theory of job choice. Oct. 1139-1144.
Total and civilian. Estimated, by employment
status, hours of work, sex; monthly, 13 most recent
months. See Current Labor Statistics, table A-l,
each issue.
Working life for men. Changes in, by age of entry,
length of service, 1900-50, 1900-2000. Mar.
297-300.
Labor force, territories:
Alaska. Characteristics of. Distribution by indus
try division, 1940, 1943, 1945. Dec. 1379-1382.
Hawaii. Composition of, by age, sex, race. Distri
bution by industry group and occupation, 1940,
1950. Dec. 1416-1421.
Labor force, Puerto Rico. Changes in, 1940-54. Dec.
1347-1349.
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Labor legislation. See Legislation.
Labor-management cooperation:
Apparel. CIO Clothing Workers extend financial
aid to Cincinnati company. Nov. 1288.
----- Men’s shirts. CIO Clothing Workers and 2
companies agree on use of union label to facilitate
union organization and promote sales. Nov. 1288.
----- Millinery. AFL Hatters and Eastern Women’s
Headgear Association of New York City establish
sales promotion fund, Feb. 1955. Apr. 461.
----- New York company pays to AFL Ladies’ Gar
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ment Workers difference in labor costs between
its unionized New York plants and its 2 nonunion
southern plants, Nov. 1954. Jan. 101.
----- Tailors. CIO Clothing Workers, industry, and
others sponsor importation of Italian refugee
tailors. Dec. 1494Construction. Roadbuilding. 4 AFL building trades
announce no-strike pledge to contractors. Feb.
h i ; Apr. 460.
Electrical machinery'and equipment. Electric AutoLite, Toledo, and CIO Auto Workers agree on
pay reduction to aid competitive position of
firm, Oct. 1955. Dec. 1492.
----- Motor Products Corp., Deepfreeze Appliance
Division, Illinois and Detroit plants, and AFL
Auto Workers. Cooperate in stock buying plan
to help company. Feb. 222-223.
----- Otis Elevator Co., Yonkers, N. Y., proposes
cost-cutting program to CIO Electrical Workers in
lieu of transfer, Jan. 1955; proposal accepted,
Feb. 1955. Mar. 337; Apr. 461; Sept. 1034.
Furniture. AFL Upholsterers and 4 segments of
furniture industry develop joint program for
counseling workers nearing retirement age. Feb. 223.
Metal products. Hayes Manufacturing Co. em
ployees represented by CIO Auto Workers accept
straight-time, in lieu of piecework, rates, Nov. 1954.
Jan. 104■
Mining. See under Minimum wage—Federal, Public
Contracts Act.
Rubber. Major rubber companies help CIO Rubber
Workers celebrate anniversary. Nov. iv.
Steel. “Good will” tours of American Can and Con
tinental Can Cos. plants by CIO Steelworkers’
president and company officials. May 580.
Transportation. Transit, local. Springfield, Mass.,
AFL Street Railway and Motor Coach Employees
offer plan to company to permit continued opera
tion. Sept. 1036.
----- Trucking. Fruehauf Trailor Co. repays loan
from AFL Teamsters. Dec. 1494.
Labor-management cooperation, foreign countries:
Bolivia. Worker participation in administration of
tin industry. Jan. 85.
Germany (Western Zone). Personnel councils: sys
tem of representation for government workers as
provided by new law, 1955. Dec. 1470-1471.
Labor-management disputes, United States (see also Con
ciliation and arbitration; Court decisions—National
Labor Relations Act; National Labor Relations Board—
Decisions):
Aircraft. Bendix Aviation Corp. and CIO Auto
Workers. Strike at plants in 5 States. Agree
ment, Sept. 1955. Oct. 1170; Nov. 1285.
----- Rohr Aircraft Corp. and AFL Machinists. 42day strike settled, Mar. 1955. May 578.
Airlines. Pan American World Airways and CIO
Transport Workers’ strike threat by ground service
personnel. Arbitration panel named. Oct. 1173;
Nov. 1284.
----- 6 major airlines and AFL Machinists; 5 com
panies settled, Mar. 1955; the sixth, Apr. 1955.
Jan. 103; Mar. 336; May 577; June 687.
Automobiles. American Motor Corp. and CIO Auto
Workers. Strike settlement, Sept. 1955. June
687-688; Sept. 1032; Nov. 1285.
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----- Studebaker Corp., South Bend, Ind., and CIO
Auto Workers. Series of work stoppages over
layoffs. Sept. 1033.
Chemicals. Colgate-Palmolive Co. in 3 States and 3
unions. Strike ended Mar. 1955. Agreement
reached. June 686-687.
Communications. Pacific Telephone and Telegraph
Co. of northern California and Nevada, and CIO
Communications Workers and 2 independent unions.
14-day strike. Agreement, Oct. 1955. Dec. 14891490.
-----Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Co. and
CIO Communications Workers. 72-day strike in 9
southeastern States. Financial assistance to mem
bers by union. Agreement, May 1955. Mar. iv;
Apr. i i i - iv ; May 576; June in , 686; July 813;
Aug. 904.
Department stores. Pittsburgh. 16-month strike
against 5 stores by 12 AFL unions. Agreement
with AFL Teamster and Machinist locals, Nov. and
Dec. 1954. Strike ended Mar. 1955. Jan. 104;
Feb. 222; May 577.
Electrical machinery and equipment. Sperry Gyro
scope of Long Island and CIO Electrical Workers.
June 685-686; July 814.
----- Westinghouse Electric Corp. and Electrical
Workers’ (Ind.) strike, Oct. 1955. Dec. 1491.
----- Westinghouse Electric Corp., East Pittsburgh,
and CIO Electrical Workers. Workers protest over
disciplinary measures, May and June 1955. Aug.
934. 39-day strike over company time study
ended Sept. 15, 1955. Oct. 1171; Nov. 1286. Na
tionwide strike of employees called Oct. 17, 1955.
Issues involved. Nov. iv; Dec. 1446-1447, 1490-
Labor-management disputes, United States—Continued
fund to support strike. Negotiations resumed.
Mar. in ; Sept. 1033.
Railroads. Long Island Railroad and Railroad
Trainmen (Ind.). Agreement reached. Oct. 1173;
Nov. 1284.
----- Louisville and Nashville Railroad and 10 AFL
unions of nonoperating employees in 13 States.
Issues in 58-day strike submitted to arbitration.
Agreement based on award, May 20, 1955. Mar.
iv ; May 576; June 686; July 813.
----- Nonoperating unions and major carriers. Emer
gency Board recommendations for wage “package”
increase. Oct. in , 1172-73; Nov. 1284; Dec. 1441,
1489.
----- Pennsylvania Railroad. See under Conciliation
and arbitration.
----- South Buffalo Railroad. 3-day strike by brakemen and conductors, Apr. 1955. June 686.
Rubber. United States Rubber Co. and CIO Rubber
Workers. Agreement on liberalized fringe benefits,
ending strike Apr. 1955. Pension and insurance
agreement, July 1955. June 685; Sept 1034.
Shoes. International Shoe and Brown Shoe Cos.
and AFL and CIO Shoe Workers. Wage settle
ment ending strike, Dec. 1955. Dec. 1447.
Steel. U. S. Steel Corp., Tennessee Coal and Iron
Division, Alabama, and CIO Steelworkers. 13-day
strike. Negotiations pending. Oct. 1172.
Textiles. Cotton and rayon. New England mills.
CIO Textile Workers’ strike, Apr. 1955. Agree
ments with Bates Manufacturing Co. and Wamsutta Mills, May 1955; agreement with other mills,
July 1955. Apr. 460; June 685; July iv, 813; Aug.
934; Sept. 1034-1035.
----- International Harvester Co. (18 plants) and CIO
Auto Workers. 32-day strike ended Sept. 1955.
Transportation. Atlantic Greyhound Lines in 11
States and AFL Street Railway and Motor Coach
Employees. Agreement ending 84-day strike, June
1955. Aug. 932-933.
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----- Transit, local. AFL Street Railway and Motor
Coach Employees settle strikes in Los Angeles and
Buffalo, July 1955. Aug. 934; Sept. 1035.
------------ AFL Street Railway and Motor Coach
Employees strike against Scranton (Pa.) Transit
Co.; and transit company of Little Rock, Ark.,
Hats. 3 New York State factories and AFL Hatters.
Strike and lockout; contract, Feb. 1955. Apr. 461.
Hotels. Miami and Miami Beach, Fla. Monte
Carlo hotel and AFL Hotel Employees. First
settlement of 6-month strike involving 22 hotels,
Oct. 1955. Representation election denied by
NLRB. July in ; Dec. 1490.
Metal products. Perfect Circle Corp. (plants at
New Castle, Richmond, Hagerstown, Ind.) and
CIO Auto Workers. Strike over union shop, wage
increase. Dec. 1491.
Mining. Nonferrous metals. Hecla, Inc., of Michigan
and CIO Steelworkers. 112-day strike ended,
Aug. 1955. Sept. 1032; Oct. 1171.
Mining and smelting, nonferrous. American Brass
Co. plants in New York and Connecticut and Mine
Workers (Ind.). 6-day strike settled, July 1955.
------------ Philadelphia Transportation Co. and CIO
Transport Workers, July 1955. Oct. 1173.
------------St. Louis Public Service Co. and AFL
Street Railway and Motor Coach Employees.
4-day strike. State seizure of company, negotiations
resumed, Oct. 1955. Dec. 1489.
------------Washington, D. C., Capital Transit Co.
and AFL Street Railway and Motor Coach Em
ployees. 52-day strike ended Aug. 1955. Con
gressional hearings, company loss of franchise,
contract provisions. Aug. 934; Sept. 1035; Oct. 1173.
------Trucking. AFL Teamsters and for-hire trucking
companies in 11 western States. 24-day strike.
Agreement, June 1955. July 814; Aug. 932.
------------New England. Associated Transport, Inc.,
and other companies and AFL Teamsters. Strike,
June 1955. Settlement, July 1955. Aug. 932;
----- Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers’ (Ind.) strike
against Phelps Dodge Corp., American Smelting
and Refining Co., Kennecott Copper Corp. Settled
Aug. 1955. Aug. 930-931; Sept. 1032; Oct. 1171.
Newspapers. Brooklyn Eagle (N. Y.) and CIO
Newspaper Guild. 47-day strike followed by
closing of publication, Mar. 1955. May 578.
Office workers. Salary dispute between AFL Ladies’
Garment Workers and their office employees
represented by AFL Office Employees. Arbitrator
appointed by AFL president. Mar. 334.
Plumbing supplies. Kohler Co., Kohler, Wis., and
CIO Auto Workers. AFL-CIO Committee raises
Transportation equipment. Budd Co. and CIO Auto
Workers. 1-week strike at 2 Philadelphia plants,
July 1955. Sept. 1033.
Work stoppages.
Longshoring.
Longshoremen
(Ind.). New York port. Protest hiring rules
established by New York-New Jersey Waterfront
Commission. Strike against Commission’s activities
and settlement, Sept. 1955. Mar. 337-338; June
1491.
Farm equipment. Allis-Chalmers Co. and CIO Auto
Workers. Brief work stoppages. Agreement, Sept.
1955. Sept, iv; Oct. 1169; Nov. 1284-1285.
----- Caterpillar Tractor Co. and John Deere & Co.
and CIO Auto Workers. Brief strikes over union
shop. Settlement, Aug. 1955. Sept. 1033; Oct.
1169.
Oct. h i , 1169; Nov. 1284-1285.
Sept. 1032.
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Sept. 1035.
689; Nov. 1283.
----- 1954, by major issues involved, industry group,
union affiliation, State. May 538-545.
----- Number, workers involved, man-days of idleness
resulting from. Averages for periods 1935-39,
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Labor-management disputes, United States—Continued
1947-49; yearly data, 1945 to most recent year;
monthly, 13 most recent months. See Current
Labor Statistics, table E -l, each issue.
----- Ratio of strike idleness to total time worked, by
State, 1952-54. July 796.
----- Steel. CIO Steelworkers in Birmingham, Ala.
1-day sympathy strike. June 686.
Labor-management disputes, Puerto Rico. Waterfront
strike, 1954. AFL Longshoremen and shipping con
cerns. Issues involved, Government intervention,
settlement. Dec. 1361-1862.
Labor-management disputes, foreign countries:
Canada. Ford Motor Co. and CIO Auto Workers.
109-day strike. Feb. iv.
Chile. Government employees strike for wage
benefits. July iv.
Germany (Western Zone). Bavarian metals industry
and Hamburg public workers. Strikes, government
intervention, settlements, 1954. Mar. 312.
Great Britain. Newspapers. Strike, Mar. 1955.
Apr. iv.
----- Railroad engineers. Strike and settlement, June
1955. June i v ; July iv.
Labor-management relations, United States (see also
Collective bargaining and agreements; Industrial rela
tions; Labor-management cooperation; Labor-manage
ment disputes):
Apprentice-training programs developed in petroleum
and construction industries. Excerpt from 1954
fiscal report of Secretary of Labor. May 564.
Communications. Southern Bell Telephone and
Telegraph Co. files suit for damages against CIO
Communications Workers. July 813.
Meatpacking. Swift & Co. refusal to check off addi
tional union dues assessment. Dec. 1493.
Labor-management relations, territories:
Alaska. Extent and character, in private industry and
on federally operated Alaskan Railroad. Special
territorial problems. Dec. 1401-1406.
Hawaii. See Labor movement, territories—Hawaii.
Labor-management relations, Puerto Rico. See Labor
movement—Puerto Rico.
Labor-management relations, foreign countries:
France. Decrees stimulating collective bargaining
through mediation on wages and sharing of produc
tivity gains. Aug. 915-916.
Great Britain. Metalworking industry. Evaluation
of, under industrywide bargaining. Local varia
tions in union status, managerial rights, wage
determination, communications and dispute ma
chinery, other practices. Apr. 403-409.
Latin America. Compulsory checkoff, extent of.
Aug. 916.
Labor Management Relations Act. See National Labor
Relations Act.
Labor markets, United States (see also Collective bargain
ing and agreements—Manufacturing and nonmanu
facturing; Labor mobility):
Business cycles and the interaction of labor market
processes. Mar. 288-292.
Primary factors in job selection. Oct. 1189-1144Labor markets, territories. Alaska. Development and
problems, war and postwar. Dec. 1386-1387.
Labor mobility, United States (see also Automation, impli
cations of):
Analysis of 8 studies. Limitations of data; reasons
for leaving and taking jobs; restraints on job
change. Mar. 301-306.
Skilled workers. Patterns of, and factors affecting,
mobility of tool and die makers, foundry hand
molders and coremakers, electronic engineers.
July 772-775.
Textile workers of New England. Excerpts from
paper presented at meeting of Industrial Relations
Research Association, Apr. 1955. June 647.
Trenton, N. J. See under Manufacturing.
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Labor mobility, foreign countries. Europe, western.
European Coal and Steel Community. Member coun
tries guarantee unrestricted labor mobility for coal
miners and steelworkers, Oct. 1954. Apr. 448-449.
Labor movement, United States:
Constitutions. AFL. Excerpts from original con
stitution. July 787-788.
----- AFL-CIO. Preamble and excerpts from pro
posed merger constitution. July 788-789.
----- CIO. Preamble of original constitution. July
788.
Union structure, membership, affiliations, functions,
administration, 1954. Nov. 1231-1239.
Labor movement, territories. Hawaii. Development,
current status, outlook. Dec. 1431-1439.
Labor movement, Puerto Rico. History, current status.
Dec. 1359-1862.
Labor organizations, United States (see also Labor move
ment) :
Activities, policies, major achievements, 1954. Feb.
176-180.
AFL-CIO. Industrial Union Department. Execu
tive Council acts on AFL Teamsters’ request for
affiliation. Dec. 1446.
------------ Financing, membership. Aug. in ; Dec.
1446.
Air Line Pilots, AFL, formulate internal procedure to
resolve seniority controversies between pilots of
merged companies. Feb. 220.
American Federation of Labor (see also Merger nego
tiations; Minority groups; National affairs; and
No-raiding pact, this section):
• -- Appeals to Federal officials for aid to stop
“pirating” of industrial plants to low-wage areas,
Sept. 1956. Sept. h i .
----- Dedication of new headquarters building in
Washington, D. C., Apr. 1955. May h i .
----- Executive Council. Announces scholarship
grants from William Green Memorial Fund.
May iv.
------------ Proposals concerning labor and foreign
affairs. Feb. i i i - iv ; Apr. 460.
------------ Session, Aug. 1955. Problems discussed.
Oct. 1174.
----- Leaders hold series of meetings in Chicago,
Aug. 1955. Oct. 1174.
----- Legislative committee proposes program to
curb migration of union plants from high-wage
areas, Nov. 1955. Jan. 100-101.
Auto Workers, CIO (see also Defense fund; Merger
negotiations; Cooperative action, this section):
----- Convention, 15th annual, Mar. 1955. Sum
mary of proceedings. Apr. in ; May 528-532.
----- Housing construction plans for Ford workers in
California. Dec. 1493-1494.
----- Influence on management decisions. Excerpts
from paper presented at meeting of Industrial
Relations Research Association, Dec. 1954. Feb.
170-174.
Boot and Shoe Workers, AFL. See Merger negotia
tions, this section.
Clothing Workers, CIO, dedicate medical center for
members in Chicago. Oct. iv.
Communications Workers, CIO (see also Defense
fund, this section):
■ -- Convention, 9th annual, June 1955. Bargain
ing program adopted. Aug. 903-905.
■ -- Establishes committee to study merits of public
ownership of telephones. Oct. iv.
Communism in unions. AFL and CIO leaders caution
member unions to guard against infiltration by
Communist-dominated unions. May 579.
• -- Fur and Leather Workers (Ind.). See under
Merger negotiations, this section.
—---- Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers (Ind.). Justice
Dept, efforts to determine infiltration. Sept. 1037.
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Labor organizations, United States—Continued
Congress of Industrial Organizations (see also Merger
negotiations; Minority groups; National affairs;
No-raiding pact, this section):
----- Conference on Automation, Apr. 1955. Excerpts
from papers delivered. May 519-527.
----- Convention. 16th annual, 1954. Summary of
proceedings. Feb. 183-187.
----- Health and welfare benefits and benefit funds.
See under that title.
----- Unemployment problems, community. Pro
gram recommended. Sept. h i .
Cooperative action. Auto Workers, Steelworkers,
Electrical Workers, all CIO unions, and AFL Ma
chinists discuss common bargaining objectives in
Bendix Aircraft Corp. negotiations. July 818.
----- Longshoremen (Ind.) and AFL Teamsters.
Mutual assistance pact arranged subject to ratifi
cation by both unions. May 579; June 688; Nov.
n i; Dec. 1493.
----- Meat Cutters, AFL, and CIO Packinghouse
Workers. Cooperative bargaining policy announced.
July 818.
----- Postal workers. President of AFL Letter Car
riers asks unions representing postal workers to
cooperate. May in .
----- Teamsters and Machinists, both AFL, agree on
joint drive to organize auto service employees.
Nov. 1289.
----- Teamsters and Meat Cutters, both AFL, joint
organizing plans, Dec. 1954. Feb. 219.
----- Teamsters’ Central States Conference, AFL,
and Retail, Wholesale and Department Store
Union, CIO. Agreement announced, Dec. 1954.
Feb. 219.
----- Teamsters’ Regional Conferences, AFL, and
Longshoremen and Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers
(both Ind.) negotiate mutual assistance pacts.
Dec. 1446.
Defense fund. Hosiery Workers Council, AFL, Upper
South and Deep South, plan fund to fight wage re
ductions, increased workloads, job displacement.
Nov. 1289.
----- Independent Union Council, National, resolves
to establish fund to guard against potential member
ship raids following AFL-CIO merger. Nov. 1289.
----- Mine Workers (Ind.). Levy assessments to
boost fund against lawsuits. Nov. 1289.
----- Strike fund. CIO Auto Workers. Increase in
dues approved by international union, Apr. 1955.
Original dues restored, Sept. 1955. May 529-530;
Oct. 1175.
----- ------ Communications Workers, CIO. Vote
special assessment. Aug. 905, 933.
------------ Electrical Workers, CIO. Economic Pol
icy Committee endorses plan for replenishing fund,
May 1955. July 817.
------------ Packinghouse Workers, CIO. Authorize
temporary assessments. Oct. 1174-1175.
Discrimination. Several AFL affiliates urge ban on,
in proposed constitution of merged federation.
Oct. 1175.
Electrical Workers, CIO (see also Cooperative action;
Defense fund, this section). Win NLRB represen
tation election at American Razor Corp., Staunton,
Va. Aug. 935.
Electrical Workers (Ind.). See under Merger nego
tiations, this section.
Farm Equipment Workers (Ind.). See under Merger
negotiations, this section.
Firemen and Enginemen (Ind.) return to Railway
Labor Executives’ Association. Feb. 219.
Fur and Leather Workers (Ind.) (see also Merger
negotiations, this section). Local 21, representing
tannery workers in Massachusetts, secedes from
parent union, Jan. 1955, and requests charter from
CIO. Feb. 219; Mar. 335; Aug. 934.
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Labor organizations, United States—Continued
Garment Workers, Ladies’, AFL (see also Federal
Trade Commission):
----- Dedicate cooperative housing project in New
York City. Nov. iv; Dec. 1493.
----- Executive Board advises locals on policy deci
sions and activities. Dec. 1493.
----- Salary dispute with employees, members of
AFL Office Employes. Mar. 334.
Gas, Coke and Chemical Workers, CIO. See Merger
negotiations, this section.
Hat Workers, AFL, win NLRB election, reestablish
ing bargaining rights with Frank H. Lee Co. of
Danbury, Conn., Jan. 1955. Mar. 334.
Hosiery Workers Council, AFL. See under Defense
fund, this section.
Industrial Workers of the World (Ind.). 50th
anniversary. Mar. iv.
International affairs. Activities and policies of AFL
and CIO, 1954. Feb. 180.
----- AFL and CIO boycott International Labor
Organization Petroleum Committee meeting, Vene
zuela, Apr. 1955. Apr. iv; May in .
International Confederation of Free Trade Unions.
Delegates representing the AFL, CIO, and Mine
Workers (Ind.) attend Fourth World Congress.
Mar. in ; May in ; June iv.
Jurisdictional conflicts. Meat Cutters and Retail
Clerks, both AFL, reach accord. Dec. 1445.
Legislation affecting labor, 1954. Feb. 180-182.
Local unions. Number, affiliation, distribution of,
1954. Nov. 1237-1238.
Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen (Ind.). Con
sider affiliation with AFL-CIO. Aug. 934.
Longshoremen (Ind.) (see also Cooperative action,
this section):
----- - New York port. Brooklyn local approves new
working rules of New York-New Jersey Water
front Commission. Aug. 935.
------------ Local sponsors class in labor relations for
its officials and shop stewards. June 689.
Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union. Inter
national Convention, Apr. 1955. June 688-689.
Machinists, AFL (see also Cooperative action,
Merger negotiations, this section). Adopt code for
regulation of welfare funds. July 817.
Maritime. CIO National Maritime Union. Agree
ment with NLRB to permit nonunion members to
use union’s hiring hall, Nov. 1954. Jan. 101.
----- Conference of American Maritime Unions,
Mar. 1955. Instrument for discussion of contro
versial issues. May 578; June 689.
----- Masters, Mates and Pilots, AFL. National
officers repudiate their president’s withdrawal from
Conference of American Maritime Unions. June
689.
----- West Coast. Longshoremen and Warehouse
men (Ind.). Urge members in stewards’ depart
ment to apply for membership in AFL Seafarers’
Union following defeat of the ILWU (Ind.) in
NLRB election. June 689.
------------ Seafarers, AFL. Elected bargaining agent
for unlicensed seamen employed under contracts
with Pacific Maritime Association. Feb. 223; Apr.
in ; June 689.
------------ Seafarers, AFL. Plan proposed to aid
competitive position of United States ocean ship
ping by reducing size of crew and overtime work.
Opposed by CIO maritime unions. May iv, 578;
June 689.
Meat Cutters, AFL. See under Cooperative action;
Jurisdictional conflicts; Merger negotiations, this
section.
Membership. Concepts of BLS data. Union re
porting practices, limitations of data. Nov. 12651269.
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Labor organizations, United States—Continued
-—— National and international unions. Distribu
tion by number, affiliation, region, 1954. Trends,
1930-54. Nov. 1284-1237.
Merger negotiations. AFL-CIO. Developments dur
ing 1954. Feb. 177-178, 188-184■ Merger agree
ment and constitution adopted by Joint Unity Coun
cil and leaders of both federations, Feb. and May
1955. Feb. in ; Apr. 459; May in ; June 685. Sum
mary of agreement. Feb. in ; Apr. 459. Pre-merger
cooperative actions among unions. Alar. in . Adverse
opinions. Sept, in ; Nov. 1289; Dec. 1446. Plans of
CIO Executive Board meeting to finance Industrial
Union Department, July 1955. Aug. in . Legal
implications. Oct. 1137-1138. Convention plans;
first constitutional convention, Dec. 5, 1955. July
818; Nov. in ; Dec. 1446, 1492.
----- Farm Equipment Workers (Ind.), representing
International Harvester Co. employees, to affiliate
with CIO Auto Workers, Mar. 1955. May 579.
----- Fur and Leather Workers (Ind.) and AFL Meat
Cutters. Merger, Feb. 1955. Jan. 52; Feb. iv,
219-220; Mar. 385; Apr. 459-460; May 579; Nov.
i n ; Dec. 1493.
----- Machinists, AFL, reject affiliation with Elec
trical Workers (Ind.). Dec. 1445.
----- Meat Cutters, AFL, and Packinghouse Workers,
CIO. Proposed unification agreement, Dec. 1955.
Dec. 1445.
----- Oil Workers and Gas, Coke and Chemical Work
ers, both CIO, merge to form CIO Oil, Chemical
and Atomic Workers’ Union. May 579-580.
----- Pennsylvania State Federation of Labor, AFL,
and State Industrial Union Council, CIO. AFL
resolution urging. July 818.
•----- Shoe Workers, CIO, study proposed pierger with
AFL Boot and Shoe Workers. July 818.
Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers (Ind.). See under
Communism in unions; also Cooperative action, this
section. See also Court decisions—Non-Communist
affidavits.
Mine Workers (Ind.) (see also Defense fund this sec
tion). Welfare and retirement fund. New ap
proach to health care for miners and families.
Mar. 384•
Minority groups. Fair employment policy of AFL
and CIO. Summary of talks given at conference
on Minority Groups Program, July 1955. Sept. 1018—
1019.
National affairs. Activities and policies of AFL and
CIO, 1954. Feb. 179-180.
No-raiding pact. AFL and CIO. Basic principles
supported by CIO president. Feb. 184■
------------ CIO Steelworkers sign pact, Mar. 1955.
May 580.
------------ First year’s experience under. Aug. 914.
----- Efforts to secure during 19th century. Aug.
913-914.
Office Workers, AFL, urge unions to place pension and
welfare funds only in banks or insurance firms with
organized office workers. Aug. 985.
Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers’ Union, CIO,
established. May 579-580.
Oil Workers, CIO. See under Merger negotiations, this
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Labor organizations, United States—Continued
Retail Clerks, AFL. See Jurisdictional conflicts, this
section.
Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, CIO.
See Cooperative action, this section.
Shoe Workers, CIO. See Merger negotiations, this
section.
Steelworkers, CIO. See Cooperative action; No-raid
ing pact—this section.
Teamsters, AFL (see also Cooperative action, this
section; Economics of Distribution; Federal Trade
Commission). Accused of raiding tactics by CIO
Executive Board. Sept. 1037.
----- Oregon. Ordered by NLRB trial examiner to
cease discouraging their office employees from mem
bership in AFL Office Employes Union. Mar. 334.
----- Program for Federal action to aid textile indus
try, Nov. 1954. Jan. 101.
Transport Workers, CIO. President opposes pro
posed AFL-CIO merger but Executive Council and
Executive Board vote affiliation. Apr. 459; Oct.
in ; Nov. 1289; Dec. 1446.
Tugboat workers of New York. Members of United
Marine Division, Local 333, secede from Mine
Workers (Ind.) and join AFL, Dec. 1954. Move
ratified, Jan. 1955. Contract, Feb. 1955. Jan. 52;
Feb. 219; Mar. 834-335; Apr. 462.
Typographers Union, AFL. Convention. Issues
considered. Oct. 1174Labor organizations, Puerto Rico. See Labor movement—
Puerto Rico.
Labor organizations, foreign countries:
Canada. Merger negotiations. Labor federations
reach agreement. Apr. iv.
Europe. Communist control of unions declining in
several countries. Aug. iv.
Germany (Western Zone). German Trade Union
Federation. Objections to new co-determination
law (1955) affecting government workers. Dec.
1470-1471.
----- Trade Union Confederation conference, Oct.
1954. Summary. Jan. 87-88.
Great Britain. Confederation of Shipbuilding and
Engineering Unions. Affiliation, membership.
Apr. 403-404.
India. Social and economic proposals of Indian
National Trade Union Congress. Apr. 451.
Italy. Italian Fiat auto plants. Shop-steward elec
tions. Apr. iv.
Japan. Membership, affiliation, 1953. May 551-552.
Morocco. Workers organize non-Communist-controlled union. Apr. iv.
Labor organizations, international (see also International
Confederation of Free Trade Unions under Conventions,
meetings, etc.). Transport Workers’ Federation. Or
ganizational drive among seamen on Panamanian,
Liberian, Honduran ships. July ///.
Labor standards, international. Actions concerning.
Adopted by ILO at 38th Conference, June 1955. Aug.
898-899.
Packinghouse Workers, CIO. See Cooperative ac
tion; Defense funds; Merger negotiations, this
Labor Statistics, Bureau of:
Commissioners. Biographical sketches. Jan. 49-50.
----- Ewan Clague reappointed. Aug. iv.
Development and program; change in emphasis,
Jan. 11-19. Index series, Jan. 20-25. Contribu
tions, national and international, Jan. 15-16, 26-
Post Office Clerks, AFL, charges of speedup in Post
Office Department, Oct. iv.
Railroad nonoperating unions. See Health and wel
fare benefits and benefit plans.
Railroad Trainmen (Ind.). Consider affiliation with
AFL—CIO. Aug. 934.
Railroad workers, Pennsylvania Railroad. See Na
tional Mediation Board.
Labor, Bureau of. Predecessor of BLS. Carroll D.
Wright, first commissioner. Jan. 10.
----- Organization, activities, achievements, reports,
1885-1905. Jan. 3-10.
Program. Appraisal of, by organized labor, man
agement, the press, and other groups. Jan. 34~38.
— — Proposals for improvement. Jan. 18, 32-83, 48.
Labor supply. See Labor force—Total and civilian;
Manpower.
section.
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Labor turnover:
Communications (telephone and telegraph). Monthly
rates per 100 employees, by class of turnover, 2
most recent months. See Current Labor Statistics,
table B-2, each issue.
Manufacturing. By industry. Monthly rates per
100 employees, by class of turnover, 2 most recent
months. See Current Labor Statistics, table B-2,
Legislation, United States, State—Continued
----- Regulation of contractors for, 1955. Washing
ton. Dec. 1466.
Minimum wage. Amendments, 1955. Alaska, Hawaii,
Nevada, New Hampshire, Massachusetts. Dec.
1464.
----- Enacted 1955. Idaho, New Mexico, Wyoming.
Dec. 1464-
each issue.
Occupational health and safety. Extension and im
provement of, 1955. Hawaii, Maine, Massa
chusetts, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, New
Hampshire. Dec. 1465-1466.
Older workers. Employment assistance, 1955. Mich
igan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania. Dec. 1468.
“Right to work.” Efforts to enact, 1955. Apr. iv ;
each issue.
----- Utah, 1955. Excerpts from. June 653.
School attendance. Amendments, 1955. Illinois,
Montana, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah.
----- Monthly rates per 100 employees, by class of
turnover, 1939 and 1947-54 for Jan. to Mar.; 194854 for Apr. to Dec. See Current Labor Statistics,
table B—1, each issue.
Mining. Coal and metal. Monthly rates per 100
employees, by class of turnover, 2 most recent
months. See Current Labor Statistics, table B-2,
New hires. Manufacturing industries, 1950-54, com
pared with total accessions, quits, layoffs. June
666-670.
Women factory workers. Hiring rates, involuntary
separations, quits, 1950-55. Aug. 889-894.
Latin America. See under Labor-management relations,
foreign countries.
Laundries. See under Conciliation and arbitration; Wages
and hours.
Layoffs (see also Collective bargaining and agreements—
Seniority; Labor turnover; Unemployment benefit plans,
supplemental). Seniority factor. Provisions for, in
collective bargaining agreements. July 766-771.
Leather. See under Benefits and benefit plans; Collective
bargaining and agreements; Wage structure.
Leave, paid. On death in family. See under Collective
bargaining and agreements.
Legislation, United States, Federal:
Military personnel. Pay increases, Mar. 1954. May
579.
Minimum wage. Act raising minimum to $1, signed
Aug. 12, 1955. Oct. 1168.
Railroad workers. Railroad Retirement Act. Amend
ments increasing pensions and benefits, 1955.
Oct. 1178.
----- Recently enacted laws affecting retirement and
unemployment insurance, 1954. May 561.
Social security. Coverage extended and benefits
liberalized, 1954. Feb. 180.
Unemployment insurance. Coverage extended, 1954.
Feb. 180.
Legislation, United States, State:
Arbitration and conciliation board. Duties increased,
1955. Maine. Dec. 1468.
Child labor. Amendments affecting, 1955. Various
States and territories. Dec. 1466-1467.
Emergency relaxations of certain labor laws extended,
1955. California, Massachusetts, North Carolina,
New York. Dec. 1467-1468.
Equal pay. Adopted, 1955. Arkansas, Colorado,
Oregon. Dec. 1464Fair employment practices. Adopted, 1955. Michi
gan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania. Dec. 1465.
Health and welfare funds, employee. Regulations, June
1955. Washington. Act reproduced. Oct 1157.
Homework, industrial. Amendments, 1955. Massa
chusetts. Dec. 1469.
Labor-relations acts (see also “Right to work,” this
section). Adopted or amended, 1955. Kansas,
Maine, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Ohio, Rhode
Island, Texas, Wisconsin. Dec. 1468.
Medical examinations. Charges for, to employees or
job applicants, banned on railroads, 1955. Wash
ington. Dec. 1469.
Migratory labor. Children’s education. Amendment
to school code, 1955. New York. Dec. 1466.
----- Commissions provided to study problems of,
1955. Michigan, New York, Texas. Dec. 1466.
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Dec. 1468.
Dec. 1467.
Transit Authority. Reorganization authorized, 1955.
New York. June 688.
Transit workers. Grievances, bill pertaining to pre
sentation of, vetoed, 1955. New York. June 688.
----- Sick leave, 1955. New York. June 688.
Union political contributions. Prohibition against,
1955. Wisconsin. Excerpts from law. June iv;
July 789.
Voting. Laws and amendments affecting time off
for, 1955. Alaska, Colorado, Hawaii, Iowa, Nevada,
South Dakota, Wyoming. Dec. 1468-1469.
Wage payment. Coverage extended and benefits
established, 1955. Missouri, New York, Oklahoma.
Dec. 1464-1465.
Women workers. Hours and working conditions.
Amendments, 1955. Arkansas, Delaware, Maine,
Massachusetts, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New
York, Ohio, Vermont. Dec. 1467.
Workmen’s compensation. Revisions affecting bene
fits, coverage, rehabilitation, second-injury funds,
administration, 1955. Nov. 1245-1248.
Legislation, territories:
Alaska. Federal and Territorial. Labor laws and
administration. Summary of. Dec. 1395-1400.
Hawaii. Labor. Summary of. Dec. 1427-1430,
1435.
Legislation, Puerto Rico. Labor. Major enactments.
Summary of. Dec. 1363-1867, 1371-1372.
Legislation, foreign countries:
Germany (Western Zone). Co-determination ex
tended to government workers through personnel
councils, Sept. 1955. Dec. 1470-1471.
Greece. Program establishing government, labor,
industry advisory committee on labor problems,
May 1955. Dec. 1471-1472.
Japan. Wage and hour provisions. May 551.
Philippines. Public
works appropriation
bill.
Passed Aug. 1955. Dec. 1472.
Longshoremen. See Collective bargaining and agree
ments—Longshoring; Labor organizations; Waterfront
Commission, New York and New Jersey.
Longshoring. See under Collective bargaining and agree
ments; also Waterfront Commission, New York and
New Jersey.
Lumber. Northwest. See under Conciliation and arbi
tration.
MACHINE shops. See under Collective bargaining and
agreements.
Machinery, except electrical. See under Benefits and
benefit plans; Collective bargaining and agreements;
Wages and hours.
Maintenance of membership. See Union security, U. S.
Maintenance workers, skilled. See under Wages.and hours.
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Managerial prerogatives. See under Collective bargaining
and agreements—Automobile industry.
Manpower (see also Labor force):
Engineers, scientists, managerial personnel, shortages
of, by industry, 1954. Sept. 1011-1014.
Military. Estimates of requirements and supply,
1955-59. July 782-784.
Workers’ reasons for job choice. Effect on wage
determination and labor allocation. Mar. 801-306.
Manufacturing (see also under Accident statistics; Col
lective bargaining and agreements; Employment;
Labor turnover; Pay periods—Length of; Wages and
hours). Trenton, N. J., employment practices. Sur
vey of 82 plants. Hiring practices, wages, labor com
petition and mobility, 1951-53. Feb. 192-195.
Maritime (industries). See under Collective bargaining
and agreements; Unemployment benefit plans, supple
mental.
Meatpacking. See under Collective bargaining and agree
ments; Labor-management relations; Wage chronolo
gies.
Mechanical trades. “Blue collar” workers. See under
Court decisions—Government.
Mechanization. See Automation.
Merger of AFL and CIO. See Labor organizations—
Merger negotiations.
Merger negotiations. See under Labor organizations.
Metal products. See under Collective bargaining and
agreements; Labor-management cooperation; Labormanagement disputes; Unemployment benefit plans,
supplemental.
----- Great Britain. See Labor-management relations,
foreign countries.
Migration and migratory labor. Puerto Rico. Trends
in migration to the mainland and dispersion of entrants.
Programs to protect and assist immigrants. Dec. 18481349, 1354-1358.
Migratory labor. See under Legislation, U. S., State.
Military manpower. See Manpower—Military.
Military pay. See Legislation, Federal—Military per
sonnel.
Millinery. See under Apparel under Collective bargaining
and agreements; Labor-management cooperation.
Minimum w~age, United States (see also Legislation, U. S.,
Federal and State):
Federal. Fair Labor Standards Act. Chamber of
Commerce of U. S. opposes increase in. June
689-690.
------------Effects of 1950 statutory increase in selected
low-wage industries and establishments. Summary
of study. Mar. 307-311.
------------ increase in, endorsed by textile and clothing
firms. Mar. 333.
------------ President’s recommendations (1955) for
legislative action. Jan. 51; Mar. 838. Recom
mendations by Secretary of Labor and labor spokes
men. Mar. 333; May iv; June 689. Secretary
urges Presidential approval of legislation, Aug. 1955.
Sept. 1036. Law signed. Oct. 1168.
----- Public Contracts Act. Mining. Bituminous.
Requested by Mine Workers (Ind.) and 2 coal com
panies, Dec. 1954. Hearings held, Feb. 1955.
Ordered by Secretary of Labor, Aug. 1955. Feb.
223; Apr. 462; Oct. 1168.
------------ Paper and pulp. Proposed by Secretary
of Labor, Feb. 1955. Apr. 462.
------------Textiles. See Court decisions—Public Con
tracts Act.
State. District of Columbia. Services. Women
and minors employed in hotels and building-service
occupations. Nov. 1287.
States and territories. Statutory rates. Dec. 1465.
Minimum wage, territories. Alaska. See Legislation,
Alaska.
Minimum wage, Puerto Rico (see also Legislation, Puerto
Rico). Fair Labor Standards Act and Commonwealth
Minimum Wage Act rates. Dec. 1370-1372.
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Minimum wage, foreign countries:
France. Minimum hourly take-home pay increased.
Expected impact. Oct. 1954. Jan. 86.
Philippines. Controversy over law. Wage trends,
1951-54. Dec. 1472.
Mining. See Pay periods—Length of; Labor-management
cooperation, foreign countries; Minimum wage—Public
Contracts Act; see under Collective bargaining and
agreements; Employment; Labor-management disputes;
Labor turnover; Wages and hours.
Mining and smelting. Nonferrous (see also Labor-manage
ment disputes). Revere Copper and Brass Corp. closes
plants because of copper shortage. Sept. 1032.
Minority groups. See under Conventions, meetings, etc.;
Labor organizations; see also Employment—Negro;
Employment—Puerto Ricans; Legislation, U. S.,
State—Fair employment practices.
Morocco. See under Labor organizations, foreign countries.
Motion-picture production and distribution. See under
Collective bargaining and agreements; Wages and hours.
NATIONAL Association of Manufacturers. See Unem
ployment benefits, supplemental—Glass.
National Labor Relations Act (see also National Labor
Relations Board—Decisions; also under Court decisions):
AFL-CIO merger, legal implications. Collective
bargaining and legal interpretation issues to be
resolved. Excerpts from addresses delivered at
University of Wisconsin Industrial Relations Insti
tute, July 1955. Oct. 1132-1139.
National emergency dispute machinery invoked by
President twice in 1954. May 544President’s recommendations for amendment. Jan.
51; Feb. 181.
Union security.
June 653.
Provisions excerpted from act.
National Labor Relations Board (for court review of
decisions see Court decisions—NLRA):
Actions in 1954, review of. Feb. 181-182.
Appointments. Boyd Leedom, chairman; Stephen S.
Bean, member. Dec. 1447.
Decisions. Back pay for employee unlawfully dis
charged and injured by company official shall not
exclude workmen’s compensation award. Feb. 214(See also Reinstatement rights, this section.)
----- Bargaining obligations. Employer. Executing
contract with incumbent union after rival union
filed representation petition requesting craft sever
ance. Jan. 91.
------------Employer. Not required to disclose com
plete wage data in a situation involving individual
grievance processing. May 571.
----- ------- Employer. Not required to furnish more
wage information than provided for in contract.
Nov. 1275-1276.
------------Employer. Not required to permit union
to make on-the-job analysis to help settle employee
grievance. Nov. 1276-1277.
------------Employer. Required to bargain concerning
a contract which would extend beyond certification
year. July 809.
------------Employer. Unlawfully insisted on con
tract proposals objectionable to union. Nov.
1274-1275.
----- Bargaining unit determination. Craft severance
denied to welders in plantwide production and
maintenance unit. Apr. 455.
------------Craft severance from an establshed produc
tion and maintenance unit, sought during decertifi
cation proceedings, denied. Apr. 455.
----- ------- Craft severance of a department to be
determined by election. Dec. 1478-1479.
----- Concerted activity. Employees suspended for
leaving work stations to question employer con
cerning discharge of coworkers, protected under
act. Dec. 1480-1481.
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National Labor Relations Board—Continued
------------Partial strikes not protected activity under
the act. Alar. 829.
------------Strikers validly discharged under contract
providing exclusive procedures for solving griev
ances, despite absence of no-strike clause. Nov.
1274.
----- Discrimination (see also Interference, this section).
CIO National Maritime Union agrees to discontinue
discriminatory labor practices affecting nonmem
bers. Jan. 101.
------------Employer. Active union member dis
missed on charge of violation of company rule.
Aug. 923.
------------Employer. Not bound by his own no
solicitation rule, even though it discriminated
against union. Aug. 922.
------------Employer and union. Discharge of non
union employee under preferential hiring agreement.
Aug. 923.
------------Employer and union. Discharge of rehired
employee for alleged nonpayment of union dues.
June 681.
------------Employer and union. Refusal to hire
nonunion applicant because of preferential hiring
agreement. June 681.
------------Employer and union. Suspension of em
ployees for not buying employer’s product. Feb.
213.
------------Union. Threatens member with loss of
future job opportunities. Aug. 928.
----- Domination. Employer (see also Interference,
this section). “Advisory council” organized and
supported by employer. July 809.
----- Interference. Employer. Establishment and
domination of a shop committee and refusing
recognition to a union. July 809.
------------Plant rule prohibiting wearing of campaign
buttons by union members during organization
drive. Oct. 1162.
----- ------ Plant rule prohibiting wearing of union
buttons on company property. Oct. 1162-1163.
----- Jurisdiction, courts. Court, not Board, should
determine disputed contract provision. Aug. 924.
----- Jurisdictional standards (see also that title, this
section; New York State Labor Board). Board
orders issued before revisions (1954) to be enforced.
Jan. 94~95.
------------Construction. General contractor’s total
purchases including those of subcontractors, meet
Board’s $500,000 “direct inflow” requirement. June
681.
------------Hotels. Board reaffirms policy against as
serting jurisdiction. Dec. 1490.
------------Nonprofit organizations. Operating plant
whose activities are commercial in nature. Aug.
924.
-------------Restaurant chains. Multi-State. Criteria
for retail establishments applicable. Mar. 329.
------------Taxicab companies. Jurisdiction refused.
Jan. 94-
-------------Territories. Board refuses plenary juris
diction in case of hotels. Jan. 94------------Territories. Board ruled that all 1954 re
vised standards apply to Territories. May 570.
----- Non-Communist affidavit. Mine, Mill and
Smelter Workers Union (Ind.) and affiliates denied
NLRB services until requirements are met concern
ing officer’s filing false affidavits. Ayr. 453.
----- Picketing, recognition. Designed to coerce em
ployer to recognize union despite existing certifica
tion. Mar. 329-330.
----- Reinstatement rights. Employee voluntarily
quitting after being subjected to series of unfair
labor practices, reinstated without back pay. Oct.
1160.
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------------Employees unlawfully discharged, not en
titled to reinstatement because of participation in,
or approval of, strike violence. Mar. 827-328.
----—Representation election. American Safety Razor
plant at Staunton, Va. Aug. 935.
- ---------Campaign tactics. Circulation of letter,
by union, the day before election, containing al
legedly false information. Dec. 1480.
- -------- Campaign tactics. Circulation of union
handbills containing false statements, prior to
election, exceeds limits of legitimate propaganda.
Aug. 924•
------------ Campaign tactics. Misrepresentations to
employees and false claims by union, no bar to
certification. June 680.
----- ------ Campaign tactics. Pledge cards support
ing a union, voluntarily signed by employees in
advance of an election. June 680-681.
----- ------- Campaign tactics. Preelection interviews
by employer with individual employees exceeded
permissible campaigning. May 572.
------------Campaign tactics. Preelection speeches
by employer to group of employees, on company
time, on day of Board-conducted election. May
571.
----- ------ Campaign tactics. Preelection talks, un
restraining, by employer with individual employees.
Sept. 1026.
------------CIO Leather Workers (Local 21) certified
as bargaining agent for leather manufacturing firms
in Massachusetts, May 1955. Aug. 934------------Contracts of 5 years’ duration covering
most farm equipment manufacturers bar new elec
tions during their term. Apr. 456.
---------- —Economic strikers who had not been dis
charged or replaced held eligible to vote. Mar.
328-329.
------------ Maritime industry. Seamen under con
tract with Pacific Maritime Association. Feb. 223;
Apr. h i ; June 689.
------------ Maritime industry. Steward department
employees on American flag ships. Feb. 223.
------------ Tugboat workers in New York port.
Mar. 334-335.
------------ Union election petition based on cards
signed by more than 30 percent of employees.
Apr. 455-456.
------------ Union which chose to file representation
petition rather than unfair labor charge cannot
revert to latter after losing election. Feb. 213.
- ------- Union’s disclaimer of interest in represent
ing employees ineffective when its activities demon
strate intention to secure contract. Dec. 1479-1480.
----- Secondary boycott. Picketing intentionally
directed to employees of construction project ad
jacent to primary employer. July 807-808.
------------ Picketing of secondary employers—amuse
ment places—held illegal in dispute with radio
station broadcasting sports events. Mar. 827.
------------Picketing of typewriter repair companies
reimbursed for service charges by typewriter manu
facturer. Apr. 454-455.
------------ Union persuasion of members, who are
buyers for retail markets, to refuse to purchase
products from meatpacker whose salesmen the
union was attempting to organize. Oct. 1158-1159.
------------ Union refusal to handle freight delivered
by nonunion cartage company to terminals of its
employer with whom it had “hot cargo” agreement.
Mar. 327.
------------Union request to members, employees of a
neutral employer, not to hang nonunion-made
doors under “hot cargo” clause in its contract with
employer. Nov. 1277-1278.
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National Labor Relations Board—Continued
------------ Union truckers’ refusal, under “hot cargo”
clause, to handle goods of firm which it was trying
to organize. Mar. 826-327.
----- Tender of dues. Employee discharged following
union’s refusal to accept tender of back dues and
membership reinstatement fee. July 808-809.
----- Union finances. Marine Cooks and Stewards
(Ind.) denied NLRB services for failure to distribute
reports to members. Mar. iv.
----- Union shop. Union requesting discharge of
employees for failure to pay dues within specified
time. Feb. 214-215.
Jurisdictional standards. Revisions (1954). Jan.
57-68. First application of revised criteria for
coverage relating to the following types of enter
prises: Instrumentalities of commerce. Jan. 61,
91-92. National defense. Jan. 63, 93. News
papers. Jan. 68, 92-98. Nonretail stores. Jan.
61, 92. Office buildings. Jan. 68, 98. Public
utilities. Jan. 62, 92. Retail franchises. Jan. 62,
98-94- Retail stores. Jan. 61-62, 93. Telephone
and telegraph. Feb. 213-214- Television and radio.
Feb. 213-214.
Territories.
Alaska.
Review of activities.
Dec.
1404;
Hawaii. Representation elections held and number of
unions certified, 1938-54. Dec. 1435.
National Mediation Board (see also Conciliation and arbi
tration). Representation election sponsored for Penn
sylvania Railroad workers. Sept. 1037.
National Planning Association. See Employment—Negro.
Newspapers. See under Collective bargaining and agree
ments; Labor-management disputes.
New York. State Labor Board. Jurisdiction over em
ployer whose volume of interstate business did not meet
NLRB standards. May 572-573.
New York City. See Employment—Statistics; Popula
tion, United States.
Nonmanufacturing. See under Employment.
No-raiding pact. See under Labor organizations.
OCCUPATIONAL health and safety. See under Legisla
tion, U. S., State; also Accident statistics.
Ocean-cable carriers. See Wages and hours—Communi
cations workers.
Office-building services. See under Benefits and benefit
plans; Wages and hours.
Office workers. See under Collective bargaining and
agreements; Labor-management disputes; Labor organi
zations; Wages and hours.
Older workers (see also under Legislation, U. S., State; also
Labor-management cooperation—Furniture). Percent
of, in labor force, selected countries and years. Auq.
916.
Organization for European Economic Cooperation. 'See
European Economic Cooperation, Organization for.
PANAMA City. Survey of family income and expendi
tures, 1952. Feb. 204-207.
Paper and pulp. See under Benefits and benefit plans;
Collective bargaining and agreements; also Collective
bargaining and agreements—Seniority provisions; Mini
mum wage.
Pay periods. Frequency of, in 17 labor markets. Oct.
1121- 1122.
—— Length of. Factors influencing; comparison by
industry, industry group, State, size of firm. Feb.
188-192.
Pensions. See Retirement.
Personnel policy:
Automobile industry. Influence on management
decisions in, by CIO Auto Workers. Excerpts
from paper presented at meeting of Industrial
Relations Research Association, Dec. 1954. Feb.
170-171.
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Personnel policy—Continued
Differences, between large and small plants, Trenton,
N. J. May 556.
gtS
Petroleum. See Apprenticeship—Programs; see under
Collective bargaining and agreements.
Philippines. See under Minimum wage, foreign countries.
Plant workers. See under Wages and hours; see also Col
lective bargaining and agreements—Manufacturing and
nonmanufacturing.
Plumbing supplies. See under Collective bargaining and
agreements; Labor-management disputes.
Policemen. See under Wages and hours—Firemen and
policemen.
Population, United States. New York City. Changes
in. Middle-income white families and low-income
Negro and Puerto Rican families, recent years. Prob
lems created. Mar. 295-296.
Population, territories:
Alaska. Composition and nature of. Dec. 13771380.
Hawaii. Racial diversity; population trends and
labor force effects. Dec. 1412, 1416-1417.
Population, Puerto Rico. Trends in, and effects on labor
force. Dec. 1347-1849.
Pottery. See under Collective bargaining and agreements.
Prices, United States:
Automobiles. Influence on, by CIO Auto Workers.
Excerpts from paper presented at meeting of
Industrial Relations Research Association, Dec.
1954. Feb. 171-172.
- Consumer Price Index, BLS. Development and uses.
Jan. 18, 21-25.
Consumer Price Index (1947-49=100). All items
and commodity groups, U. S. averages. Annually,
1947 to most recent year; monthly, 3 or 4 most
recent years. See Current Labor Statistics, table
D -l, each issue.
----—All items and commodity groups except food, by
city. Selected dates, current and preceding year.
See Current Labor Statistics, table D-6, each issue.
----- All items and total food, U. S. averages. Annu
ally, 1913 to most recent year; monthly, 4 or 5
most recent years. See Current Labor Statistics,
table D—4, each issue.
----- All items, by city. Monthly, June 1950, and 13
most recent months for 5 cities and selected months
for 15 additional cities. See Current Labor
Statistics, table D-5, each issue.
——- Apparel, total and subgroups, U. S. averages.
Annually, 1947 to most recent year; monthly, 2 or
3 most recent years. See Current Labor Statistics,
table D-3, each issue.
——- Automobile prices for new and used cars and their
relative importance. Nov. 1269-1278.
----- Food, total, and at home, by subgroups, U. S.
averages. Annually, 1947 to most recent year;
monthly, 3 or 4 most recent years. See Current
Labor Statistics, table D-2, each issue.
----- Food, total, and at home, by subgroups and city.
Monthly averages for most recent month, previous
month, and year ago. See Current Labor Statistics,
table D-7, each issue.
----- List of items priced and their relative importance,
Dec. 1954; Dec. 1952 (recalculated). Apr. 444~447.
Food. See under Consumer Price Index; Retail, this
section.
Retail. Foods, selected. Averages, 2 most recent
months and selected earlier months. See Current
Labor Statistics, table D-8, each issue.
Wholesale. Indexes (1947—49=100). By group and
subgroup of commodities. Monthly, June 1950
and 13 most recent months. See Current Labor
Statistics, table D-9, each issue.
------------ Economic sector. Monthly. New series
describes changes in commodity prices, at various
production levels and in various economic sectors;
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Prices, United States—Continued
listing of commodities in index and their relative
importance, Dec. 1954. Dec. 1448-1458.
----- ------ Special commodity groups. Monthly, June
1950 and 13 most recent months. See Current
Labor Statistics, table D-10, each issue.
Prices,Iterritories. Alaska. See Economic characteristics,
Alaska.
Prices, foreign countries:
Germany (Eastern Zone). Reductions in, since Sept.
6, 1954. Comparison with Western Germany.
Apr. 450.
Germany (Western Zone). European Coal and Steel
Community authorizes higher coke and coal prices
following wage increases. Aug. 917.
Printing trades. See under Collective bargaining and
agreements; Wages and hours.
Production:
Automobiles. Output rate and scheduling. Effect on,
by CIO Auto Workers. Excerpts from paper
presented at meeting of Industrial Relations
Research Association, Dec. 1954. Feb. 172-173.
National output, 1929-1953. Feb. 207-208.
Productivity, foreign countries:
China, Communist. Increase in, since 1952. Apr. 449.
France. Government decree to stimulate increase in,
May 1955. Aug. 915-916.
Promotions. See Collective bargaining and agreements—
Seniority.
Public Contracts Act. See under Court decisions; Mini
mum wage—Federal.
Public utilities. See under Wages and hours.
Public Works Act. See Legislation, territories—Hawaii.
Publications. Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico. Bibliography
for labor problems, conditions, economics. Dec. 14401445.
Puerto Rico (see also Publications; also under Benefits
and benefit plans; Employment; Labor movement;
Legislation; Migration and migratory labor; Minimum
wage; Wages and hours). Economy of. Population,
labor force, industrial development, employment,
unemployment, income. Dec. 1347-1358:
Purchasing power of United States dollars in 4 European
countries, 1950. (Index) Apr. 419.
RADIOTELEGRAPH carriers. See under Wages and
hours—Communications.
Railroad workers. See under Health insurance; Labor
organizations; Legislation, U. S., Federal; Unemploy
ment insurance.
Railroads. See under Collective bargaining and agree
ments; Conciliation and arbitration; Labor-management
disputes.
Railway Labor Executives’ Association. Structure and
functions. Nov. 1233.
Refractories. See under Collective bargaining and
agreements.
Rehabilitation, vocational:
Progress and needs. Sept. 1019-1020.
State provisions for increasing allowances and further
ing research. Nov. 1247.
Research, industrial. Scientific and engineering personnel.
Shortages. 1954. Sept. 1011-1014Retail trade. See under Collective bargaining and agree
ments; Wages and hours; Prices—Retail.
Retirement, United States:
Airlines. Pan-American and Northeast Airlines and
AFL Air Line Pilots. Pension fund established.
July 815.
Automobiles. Ford Motor Co. Benefits increased,
1955. Aug. 879-880.
Collectively bargained plans. BLS techniques for
collection and analysis of pension agreements.
June 674-675, 677.
Furniture. See under Labor-managementJ:cooperation.
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Retirement, United States—Continued
Prevalence of, under collective bargaining agreements,
1954, by industry division, union affiliation, method
of financing. Sept. 997-1000.
Railroad workers. See Health insurance.
Rubber. See Collective bargaining and agreements.
Television. AFL Television Artists and 4 networks
conclude employer-financed plan, Nov. 1954. Jan.
103.
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Textiles. Cotton. Percent of workers covered under
plans, by type and region, Nov. 1954. May 537.
Retirement, foreign countries. Sweden. Coverage of
manual industrial workers. Apr. 452.
“Right to work” laws (see also under Legislation, U. S.,
State; Union security—Union shop). Prevalence and
effect on bargaining agreements. June 653.
Rubber. See under Collective bargaining and agreements;
Labor-management disputes; Labor-management coop
eration.
Russia. See Soviet Union under Foreign countries under
Employment; Wages and hours; Women workers.
SAFETY. See Accident statistics; Legislation, U. S.,
State.
Salaries. See Wages and hours.
Saving and spending. Patterns. Influence of age cycle
on. Nov. 1240—1244Scientific personnel. See Manpower; Research, industrial.
Senate Subcommittee on Welfare and Pension Funds.
See Health and welfare benefits and benefit plans—Reg
ulation.
Seniority. See under Collective_bargaining and agree
ments; Labor organizations—Air Line Pilots, AFL.
Services. See Minimum wage—State.
Shipbuilding. See under Collective bargaining and agree
ments.
Shoes (see under Collective bargaining and agreements;
Labor-management disputes; Wages and hours): Inter
national Shoe Co. will close 3 plants in New England.
Aug. 984-
Sickness. See under Absenteeism. Also Benefits and
benefit plans—Paper and pulp industry.
Skilled workers. See under Labor mobility, United States.
Social security. See Unemployment insurance; also under
Legislation, U. S., Federal.
Sole bargaining. See Union security, U. S.
Soviet Union. See under Foreign countries under Employ
ment; Wages and hours; Women workers.
Spending. See Saving and spending.
Statistics (see also specific subject area). _ Labor. Uses_ of,
in determining legislative and administrative policy,
measuring employment and unemployment, study of
business cycles. Mar. 279-296.
Steel. See under Collective bargaining and agreements;
Labor-management cooperation; Labor-management
disputes; Wages and hours.
Strikes, United States. See Labor-management disputes.
Strikes, foreign countries. Great Britain. Jurisdictional
strike of longshoremen. Apr. iv; July iv.
Structural clay products. See under Benefits and benefit
plans; Wages and hours.
Sugar refining. See under Collective bargaining and
agreements.
Supplemental unemployment benefits. See Unemploy
ment benefit plans, supplemental.
Supplementary employee benefits. See specific types of;
also Benefits and benefit plans; Health and welfare bene
fits and benefit plans.
Sweden. See under Benefits and benefit plans, foreign
countries.
TAFT-HARTLEY Act. See National Labor Relations
Act.
Tailors. Italian refugees. See under Labor-management
cooperation—Apparel.
Teachers. See under^Wages and hours.
SUBJECT INDEX TO VOLUME 78
Technical Notes:
Collective bargaining agreements, collection and
analysis of. June 673-678.
Earnings, wages, and hours, BLS historical estimates
of. July 801-806.
Earnings, wages, and hours, nongovernmental his
torical series on. Aug. 918-921.
Employment, accuracy of BLS current estimates of.
Dec. 1473-1477.
Employment statistics, machine methods used in
processing. May 567-569.
Union membership data, limitations of. Nov. 12651269.
Work-injury statistics, revised standards for.
565-567.
May
Technology, automatic. See Automatic control devices;
Automation; Economic Report, Joint Congressional
, Committee on the.
Telegraph carriers. See under Wages and hours—Com
munications.
Telephone carriers. See Absenteeism; also Communica
tions under Collective bargaining and agreements; Wages
and hours.
Textiles (see under Benefits and benefit plans; Collective
bargaining and agreements; Conciliation and arbitra
tion; Labor-management disputes; Minimum wage—
Public Contracts Act; Unemployment, U. S.; Wage
chronologies; Wages and hours):
■
----- Carpets. Bigelow-Sanford Carpet Co. decides to
move weaving operations from New York to Connecticut.
Mar. 337.
----- Cotton and rayon. Lockwood-Dutchess, Inc. to
close Waterville, Maine, plant. Sept. 1035.
Tin industry. See Labor-management cooperation, for
eign countries—Bolivia.
Tool and die makers. See Labor mobility—Skilled work
ers.
Trade Union Confederation, West German. See Labor
organizations, foreign countries—Germany (Western
Zone).
Training. See Apprenticeship.
Transit Authority, New York City. See under Legisla
tion, U. S., State.
Transit, local. See Transportation under Collective bar
gaining and agreements; Labor-management coopera
tion; Labor-management disputes; Wages and hours.
Transit workers, New York City. See under Legislation,
U. S., State.
Transportation (see also under Collective bargaining and
agreements; Labor-management cooperation; Labormanagement disputes; Wages and hours; also Rail
roads; Maritime industries). New York City. Need
for additional employment statistics in planning. Mar.
294-295.
Transportation equipment. See under Collective bargain
ing and agreements; Labor-management disputes.
Trucking. See Transportation under Collective bargain
ing and agreements; Labor-management cooperation;
Labor-management disputes; Wages and hours.
Tug boats. See under Collective bargaining and agree
ments—Longshoring; Labor organizations—Tugboat
workers.
UNDEREMPLOYMENT. Concept of. Mar. 283-284.
----- Puerto Rico. Concept and measurement. Mar.
284- 286 .
Unemployment, United States (see also Automation—•
Implications of; Economic Report, Joint Congressional
Committee on the):
Bureau of the Census monthly report. Concept,
adequacy, and shortcomings for national economic
policy. ' Mar. 279-282.
Insured unemployment under State programs, by
geographic division and State. Monthly, 13 most
recent months. See Current Labor Statistics, table
A-8, each issue.
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Unemployment, United States—Continued
Labor force. Civilian. Estimated by length of un
employment and sex. Monthly, 13 most recent
months. See Current Labor Statistics, table A -l,
each issue.
Textile communities of New England. Survey of
displaced workers, remedies. Excerpts from paper
presented at meeting of Industrial Relations Re
search Association, Apr. 1955. June 646-648.
Unemployment, territories. Hawaii. See Labor Force—
Hawaii.
Unemployment, Puerto Rico. Fluctuations, Apr. 1940 to
Oct. 1954. Dec. 1350-1351.
Unemployment benefit plans, supplemental (see also Guar
anteed wage):
Aircraft. Bendix Aviation Corp. and CIO Auto
Workers. Nov. 1285.
Automobiles. Chrysler Corp. and CIO Auto Workers.
Oct. 1169.
—— Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Corp. and
CIO Auto Workers. Background, negotiations,
employee coverage, terms of payment, 1955.
June in; Aug. 875-881.
Automobile parts. Dana Corp. and CIO Auto
Workers. Oct. 1170.
Containers. American and Continental Can Cos. and
CIO Steelworkers. Oct. 1171.
Electrical machinery and equipment. International
Resistance Co. and CIO Electrical Workers. June
687.
Farm equipment. Allis-Chalmers and CIO Auto
Workers. Nov. 1284----- Caterpillar Tractor Co. and CIO Auto Workers.
Sept. 1033; Oct. 1169.
----- International Harvester Co. and CIO Auto
Workers. Nov. 1284■
----- John Deere & Co. and CIO Auto Workers.
Sept. 1033; Oct. 1169.
Glass. Pittsburgh Plate Glass and Libby-OwensFord Glass Cos. and CIO Glass Workers, Sept. 1955.
Nov. 1286.
----- National Association of Manufacturers endorses
individually funded layoff plans. Dec. 1447.
Hats. Men’s Hats, Inc. of Baltimore and AFL Hat
Workers. Oct. 1173.
Maritime (industries). Atlantic and Gulf Coast
cargo, passenger, and tanker operators and CIO
National Maritime Union, June 1955. Apr. 460;
July 817; Aug. 932.
Metal products. Automotive Tool and Die Manu
facturers Association of Detroit area and CIO Auto
Workers, June 1955. Aug. 931-932.
Rulings concerning. Federal. Labor Department.
Ford Motor Co. contributions under plan are not
wages. Nov. 1285.
------------ Treasury Department. Company pay
ments to plan deductible in computing income taxes.
Dec. 1447.
----- State. Michigan and Connecticut. Sept. 1037.
New York. Dec. 1494• New Jersey. Dec. 1447.
------------ Ohio voters reject plans. Nov. iv.
Unemployment compensation. See Unemployment insur
ance; also under Court decisions.
Unemployment insurance (see also under Legislation, U. S.
Federal):
Guaranteed wage, as impediment to improvements in
unemployment insurance program. Excerpts from
aper presented at meeting of Industrial Relations
Research Association, Dec. 1954. Feb. 163-164.
Modifications suggested by the Joint Congressional
Committee on the Economic Report. May 563.
Ohio voters reject higher benefits. Nov. 1955.
S
Nov. iv.
Railroad workers. Increase in total benefits paid,
fiscal 1954. May 561. (See also Legislation, U. S.,
Federal.)
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Unemployment insurance—Continued
----- Variations in characteristics of beneficiaries and
economic influences; occupational and geographical
distribution of benefit payments. Aug. 908-909.
Unemployment insurance, territories. Alaska. See Leg
islation—Alaska.
Unemployment statistics. Use of, in national economic
policy. Mar. 279-282.
Union security, United States (see also Legislation, U. S.,
State—Right to work). Provisions for, in 1,716 agree
ments, by type, industry group, region, union affiliation,
1954. June 649-658.
----- Union shop. Federal and State laws affecting; col
lective agreement provisions by union affiliation, type,
and region; prevalence of. June 650-654.
----- ----- General Motors Corp. and Ford Motor Co.
agreements. Aug. 880.
Union security, territories. Hawaii. Extent of. Dec.
1436-1487.
Union shop. See under Union security.
Unionization. Increase in union membership, 1930-54
(actual and as percentage of labor force). Nov. 1235.
Unions. See Labor organizations.
United Kingdom. See European Economic Cooperation,
Organization for.
Unity. See Labor organizations—Cooperative action and
Merger negotiations.
VACATIONS. Soviet Union. Provisions for, in Soviet
Labor Code. Oct. 1145-1146.
Vacations, paid (see also Benefits and benefit plans). Pro
visions for, in 17 labor markets, 1954-55. Oct. 1122.
----- Western Europe. Development and present prac
tices; recommendation by International Labor Confer
ence, June 1954. Jan. 88-89.
Veterans. See Court decisions—Veterans’ reemployment
rights.
Voting. See Legislation, U. S., Federal.
WAGES and related benefits. See Benefits and benefit
plans; Collective bargaining and agreements; Wage
structure; Wages and hours.
Wage chronologies:
Automobiles. Ford Motor Co. General wage changes,
job rates, related practices, 1955. Oct. 1152-1156.
----- General Motors Corp. General wage changes,
job rates, related practices, 1955. Oct. 1147-1151.
Meatpacking. Armour and Co. General wage
changes, hourly wage rates, related practices,
1953-55. Nov. 1256-1258.
----- Swift and Co. General wage changes, hourly
wage rates, related practices, 1953-55. Nov.
1259-1261.
Textiles. Woolen and worsted. American Woolen
Co. General wage changes, minimum wage rates,
related practices, 1953-55. July 794~795.
Wage escalation. See Wages and hours—Cost-of-living
wage escalation.
Wage, guaranteed. See Guaranteed wage.
Wage, minimum. See Minimum wage.
Wage payment. See under Legislation, U. S., State.
Wage-price policy. Germany (Western Zone). European
Coal and Steel Community increases coke and coal prices
following coal miners’ wage increase, spring 1955. Aug.
917.
Wage structure, United States. Leather. Earnings,
occupational, by type of product, region, sex, size of
establishment, method of wage payment. Related wage
practices. Feb. 199-204.
Wage structure, foreign countries. Japan. Earnings,
cash, by kind; noncash benefits. May 547-549.
Wage trends. See Wages and hours—Wage trends.
Wages and hours, United States:
Aircraft. Glenn L. Martin Co., pay increase to
clerical and engineering workers, Nov. 1954. Jan.
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Wages and hours, United States—Continued
----- Lockheed Aircraft Co., wage increase to nonunion
clerical workers and guards, Feb. 1955. Apr. 461.
----- Northrop Aircraft, Inc., Hawthorne and
Anaheim, Calif., wage increases to hourly rated and
salaried employees. Feb. 220-221.
----- United Aircraft Corp., pay increase for unorgan
ized salaried workers. Feb. 220.
Aircraft parts. Thompson Products, Inc., Euclid,
Ohio, wage increase to salaried workers, June 1955.
Aug. 933.
Apparel. Men’s dress shirts and nightwear. Aver
age straight-time hourly earnings of workers, by
industry characteristics and selected occupations.
Percentage distribution of workers; related wage
practices, United States and regions, May 1954.
Jan. 80-84.
Automobiles. Ford Motor Co. Changes affecting
wage rates in 1955 contract. Aug. 879.
------------ Wage increase to salaried workers, June
1955. Aug. 931.
----- General Motors Corp. Wage adjustments in
1955 contract. Aug. 880.
------------ Wage increase to salaried employees, Sept.
1955. Nov. 1285.
BLS hours and earnings series. Historical develop
ment. Jan. 14Chemical products. Carbide and Carbon Chemicals
Co. and E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Co. in West
Virginia, increase wages for unorganized workers.
May 579.
Cigars. Average straight-time hourly earnings of
production workers, by industry characteristics and
selected occupations. Percentage distribution of
workers by occupation; related wage practices.
United States and regions, Apr. 1955. Dec.
1453-1459.
Cleaning and dyeing. Hours and gross hourly and
weekly earnings, average. Production or nonsupervisory employees. Annually, 2 most recene
years; monthly, 13 most recent months. Net
Current Labor Statistics, table C -l, each issue.
Collective bargaining settlements. Changes in wages
and related practices, Jan.-Mar. 1955. July 797.
Jan.-June 1955. Oct. 1123-1125.
----- Provisions for wage adjustments in selected
agreements expiring or reopenable for wage nego
tiations between May-Dec. 1955. Apr. 432-489.
Communications (telephone and telegraph). Average
hourly earnings for class A telephone carriers’
employees, selected occupations, by region, Oct.
1954. Nov. 1253, 1255.
----- Hours and gross hourly and weekly earnings,
average. Production or nonsupervisory employees.
Annually, 2 most recent years; monthly, 13 most
recent months. See Current Labor Statistics, table
C -l, each issue.
----- Percentage distribution of wire-telegraph, radio
telegraph, ocean-cable employees, by average hourly
earnings and selected occupations, 1953-54. Nov.
1253-1255.
Construction. Contract. By industry group and
industry. Hours and gross hourly and weekly
earnings, average. Production or nonsupervisory
employees. Annually, 2 most recent years; month
ly, 13 most recent months. See Current Labor
Statistics, table C-l, each issue.
----- ----- Indexes of aggregate weekly man-hours.
Annual averages, 2 most recent years; monthly, 13
most recent months. See Current Labor Statistics,
table C-5, each issue.
----- Union scales of wages and hours, by trade, city,
region, July 1954. Wage trends, 1907-54. Mar.
819-322. Analysis of wage scales, Jan.-June 1955.
Oct. 1125.
" Cost-of-living wage escalation. Contract provisions
discontinued by AFL Machinists and Douglas Air-
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Wages and hours, United States—Continued
craft Co. (2 plants) and Lockheed Aircraft Corp.;
and by 15 nonoperating unions and Nation's
carriers. Feb. 220, 221.
----- Developments in, 1953-55, and impending short
term developments. Mar. 815-318.
----- Pay increases as result of rise in Consumer Price
Index, July 1955. Oct. 1170.
Differentials in wages and hours of work, 17 labor
markets, 1954-55, by industry, occupation, skill.
Oct. 1119-1121.
Electric lamps. Average straight-time hourly earn
ings of production workers, Oct. 1954. Percentage
distribution of workers. Aug. 913.
Electrical machinery and equipment. General Elec
tric Co., Lamp Division, Cleveland, corrects job
inequities, Dec. 1954. Feb. 222.
----- Sylvania Electric Products, Inc. Wage increase
to unorganized employees, Sept. 1955. Nov. 1286.
----- Westinghouse Electric Co. Wage increase to
unorganized employees, Oct. 1955. Dec. 1491.
Finance, insurance, and real estate. Selected indus
tries. Gross weekly earnings, average. Produc
tion or nonsupervisory employees. Annually, 2
most recent years; monthly, 13 most recent months.
See Current Labor Statistics, table C-l, each issue.
Firemen and policemen. Increase in salary rates.
Intercity and occupational comparisons in cities
over 10,000, 1952-54. July 790-793.
Furniture. Average straight-time hourly earnings of
production workers, early 1954. By industry
branch, occupation, and sex, United States and
regions. Jan. 68-74----- Manufacturers in 3 southern centers increase
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wages for production workers, June 1955. Aug. 933.
Government employees. Federal. Minimum and
average salaries, under Classification Acts by
grades, 1939, 1951, 1954. Apr. 4®3.
—---------- Pay increases for postal field service and
Federal civilian employees, June 1955. July iv;
Aug. 980.
Historical series. Governmental. BLS series. De
scription of data and methods of computation used.
Selected years, 1904-32. July 801-806.
----- Nongovernmental. Earnings, wages, and hours
indexes. Summary of and periods covered. Auq.
918-921.
Hotels, year-round. Hours and gross hourly and
weekly earnings, average. Production or non
supervisory employees. Annually, 2 most recent
years; monthly, 13 most recent months. See Cur
rent Labor Statistics, table C -l, each issue.
Laundries. Gross weekly earnings, average. Pro
duction workers. In current and 1947-49 dollars.
Annually, 1939 to current year; monthly, 13 most
recent months. See Current Labor Statistics,
table C-2, each issue.
----- Hours and gross hourly and weekly earnings,
average. Production or nonsupervisory employees.
Annually, 2 most recent years; monthly, 13 most
recent months. See Current Labor Statistics,
table C—1, each issue.
Leather. See under Wage structure.
Localities, selected. See Differentials in wages, etc.,
this section.
Machinery, except electrical. Industry character
istics, average straight-time hourly earnings, re
lated wage practices, nonwage benefits, 1954-55.
By selected occupations in 21 labor markets. July
776-781.
----- Jaeger Machine Co. doubles scheduled pay
raise for CIO Steelworkers. Dec. 1492.
—— • Machine-tool accessory manufacturing. Aver
age straight-time hourly earnings for men in selected
occupations in 8 labor markets, 1954-55. July 779.
Maintenance workers, skilled, men. See Wage
trends—Indexes, this section.
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Wages and hours, United States—Continued
Manufacturing:
----- Average gross hourly earnings by industry
groups and industry, selected years, 1946-55.
Dec. 1368-1372.
----- F a c t o r y wor ke rs . Earnings. Spendable—
hourly, and weekly, with and without dependents;
gross—hourly and weekly. Jan. 53-57.
------------ Straight-time average hourly earnings of
production workers, Apr. 1954. Percentage dis
tribution, United States and regions, by diirable
and nondurable goods, sex, selected industry
groups. Apr. 410-416.
—— Gross and net spendable weekly earnings.
Production workers. In current and 1947-49
dollars. Annual averages, 1939 to most recent
year; monthly, 13 most recent months. See Cur
rent Labor Statistics, table C-3, each issue.
----- Gross weekly earnings, average. Production
workers. In current and 1947-49 dollars. Annu
ally, 1939 to most current year; monthly, 13 most
recent months. See Current Labor Statistics, table
C-2, each issue.
----- Hourly earnings, average, gross and excluding
overtime; total, durable, and nondurable goods.
Production workers. Annually, 1941 to most re
cent year; monthly, 13 most recent months. See
Current Labor Statistics, table C-4, each issue.
----- Hours and gross hourly and weekly earnings,
average, by industry group and industry. Produc
tion or nonsupervisory employees. Annually, 2
most recent years; monthly, 13 most recent months.
See Current Labor Statistics, table C -l, each issue.
----- Indexes of aggregate weekly man-hours, total,
durable and nondurable goods, by industry group.
Annual averages, 2 most recent years; monthly, 13
most recent months. See Current Labor Statistics,
table C-5, each issue.
----- Selected States and areas. Hours and gross
hourly and weekly earnings, average. Production
workers. Annually, 2 most recent years; monthly,
13 most recent months. See Current Labor Statis
tics, table C-6, Mar., June, Sept., and Dec. issues.
----- Weekly hours, increase in, 1953-June 1955.
Oct. 1108-1109.
Military personnel. See under Legislation, U. S.,
Federal.
Minimum wage. See under that title.
Mining. Bituminous. Gross weekly earnings, aver
age. Production workers. In current and 1947-49
dollars. Annually, 1939 to current year; monthly,
13 most recent months. See Current Labor Sta
tistics, table C-2, each issue.
----- By industry group and industry. Hours and
gross hourly and weekly earnings, average. Pro
duction or nonsupervisory employees. Annually,
2 most recent yeais; monthly, 13 most recent
months. See Current Labor Statistics, table C-l,
each issue.
----- Indexes of aggregate weekly man-hours. An
nual averages, 2 most recent years; monthly, 13
most recent months. See Current Labor Statistics,
table C-5, each issue.
Motion picture production and distribution. Gross
weekly earnings, average. Production or non
supervisory employees. Annually, 2 most recent
years; monthly, 13 most recent months. See Cur
rent Labor Statistics, table C-l, each issue.
Nonfarm. Index. Published by BLS until 1934.
Method of calculation. July 806.
Office-building and contract cleaning services. Aver
age straight-time hourly earnings, summer 1955.
Selected occupations, by sex; related wage practices,
selected cities. Dec. 1459-1464Office workers. Weekly salaries, by occupation, 17
labor markets, 1954-55. Oct. 1119-1121.
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Wages and hours, United States—Continued
Plant workers. Average straight-time hourly earn
ings, 17 labor markets (13 occupations), 1954-55.
Oct. 1120-1121.
----- Men, unskilled.
See Wage trends—Indexes,
this section.
Printing trades. Union scales, by types of work, 53
cities, July 1, 1954, and increases in rates, July 1,
1953, to July 1, 1954. Apr. 44-0-443.
Public utilities. Gas and electric. Hours and gross
hourly and weekly earnings, average. Production
or nonsupervisory employees. Annually, 2 most
recent years; monthly, 13 most recent months. See
Current Labor Statistics, table C -l, each issue.
Retail trade. Hours and gross hourly and weekly
earnings, average, by type of store. Production
or nonsupervisory employees. Annually, 2 most
recent years; monthly, 13 most recent months. See
Current Labor Statistics, table C -l, each issue.
Shoes. Craddock-Terry Shoe Co., Virginia, wage
increase to clerical, stock, production, and mainte
nance workers, effective Jan. 1956. Dec. 1492.
----- Endicott Johnson Corp., wage increase to plant
and retail store employees, Sept. 1955. Dec. 1492.
----- General Shoe Corp., wage increase to unorgan
ized workers in 4 southern States, Aug. 1955. Nov.
1287.
Size of plant. Effect of, on wages. Study of Trenton,
N. J., area. May 556.
Steel. U. S. Steel Corp., wage increase to salaried
workers, July 1955. Sept. 1031-1032.
Structural clay products. Average straight-time
hourly earnings of production workers by industry
characteristics and selected occupations; related
wage practices. United States and regions, May
1954. Jan. 75-79.
Teachers. Salary trend, 1941-53; 1951-53. By type
of school, size of city, region. Feh. 195-198.
Textiles.
Cotton.
Average straight-time hourly
earnings, 1952-54. Trend. Apr. 460-461.
------------ Average straight-time hourly earnings of
production workers, Nov. 1954—percentage distri
bution of workers and average earnings, by selected
occupations and predominant type of yarn or fabric,
United States and regions; related wage practices.
May 533-537.
----- Southern cotton and rayon mills. Pay increase
for unorganized production workers, Aug. 1955.
Oct. 1173.
—•— Synthetic. Average straight-time hourly earn
ings of production workers, Nov. 1954—percentage
distribution of workers, earnings by industry char
acteristics and occupation, United States and re
gions; related wage practices. June 659-663.
Transportation. Selected industries. Hours and gross
hourly and weekly earnings, average. Production
or nonsupervisory employees. Annually, 2 most
recent years; monthly, 13 most recent months. See
Current Labor Statistics, table C -l, each issue.
----- Transit, local. Union scales for operating em
ployees, 52 cities, July 1, 1954. Rate differentials,
city and regional. May 552-554.
----- Trucking, local, city. Union scales of truckdrivers and helpers in cities of 100,000 or more
population, July 1, 1954. June 663-665.
Trenton, N. J. See Manufacturing.
Wage trends. Effect of Federal minimum wage law
on, in 3 groups of industries, 1949-50, 1949-51,
1938-51. Mar. 310-311.
----- Indexes. Weekly salaries and hourly earnings,
average, selected occupational groups, 17 labor mar
kets, 1952-55. Scope and method. Limitation of
data. Nov. 1248-1252.
Wages and hours, United States—Continued
Wholesale trade. Hours and gross hourly and weekly
earnings, average. Production or nonsupervisory
employees. Annually, 2 most recent years; monthly,
13 most recent months. See Current Labor Statis
tics, table C -l, each issue.
Women workers. Factory. Straight-time average
hourly earnings, all industries and durable and non
durable goods, United States and regions. Com
parison with men workers. April 1954. Oct. 1126—
1131.
----- Office. See Wage trends—Indexes, this section.
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----- Office-building services. Average straight-time
hourly earnings by selected occupation and city.
Distribution by straight-time average hourly earn
ings, by city, 1955. Dec. 1460-1461.
Wages and hours, territories:
Alaska. Hours and working conditions. Dec. 13921394, 1406.
----- Wage and salary scales for selected occupations,
by industry category and selected cities, May 1955.
Dec. 1391.
Hawaii. Average hourly earnings by industry group;
basic wage rates; related wage practices. Dec.
1422 - 1426 .
----- Clerical workers. Salaries for selected jobs.
Dec. 1426.
Wages and hours, Puerto Rico (see also Minimum wage).
Agriculture. Average daily wages of wage and salary
workers, 1945-46, 1953—54. Dec. 1368—1369.
Wages and hours, foreign countries:
China, Communist. Working conditions since 1952.
Apr. 449.
Germany (Western Zone). Wage campaign, 1954.
Union contentions and motivations, management
attitudes, outlook. Mar. 311-314Japan. Earnings and hours in mining and manufac
turing industries, 1953. Factors affecting wage
levels; noncash benefits. May 547-552.
Soviet Union. Work schedules established by law.
Compensation for overtime and holidays worked.
Oct. 1144-1145.
Waterfront Commission, New York and New Jersey:
New hiring rules for New York dockworkers effective
Apr. 1, 1955. Opposition by Longshoremen (Ind.).
Mar. 337-338; June 689; Sept. 1015-1016.
By New Jersey’s representative. Mar. 337—
Report.
338 .
----- Summary of activities, including decasualization,
registration, hiring of longshoremen. Sept. 10141016.
Welfare. See Health and welfare benefits and benefit
plans; Legislation, U. S., State.
Wholesale prices. See under Prices.
Wholesale trade. See under Wages and hours.
Wisconsin, University of. Industrial Relations Institute.
See under Conventions, meetings, etc.
Women workers. See under Absenteeism; Employment;
Legislation, U. S., State; Wages and hours; also Labor
turnover—Women factory workers.
Women workers, foreign countries:
Japan. See Employment—Japan.
Soviet Union. Status, number, type of work, living
conditions. Sept. 1008-1010.
Work injuries. See Accident statistics.
Work stoppages. See under Labor-management disputes.
Workmen’s compensation (see also Legislation, U. S., State).
Historical BLS activities relating to. Jan. 12.
Workmen’s compensation, territories:
Alaska. See Legislation—Alaska.
Hawaii. See Legislation—Hawaii.
Workmen’s compensation, Puerto Rico. See Legislation—
Puerto Rico.
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