Scope and Contents note From the Series: This category has been further subdivided into three types of disputes: industry wide, corporate-level and plant-level. Boxes 6634 through 6636 contain documents related to industry-wide disputes. These can be defined as labor disputes in which a majority of the firms within a particular industry are engaged in a dispute with a national union which has organized that industry's workers. Two industries are represented in the collection - coal and steel. Of particular significance are the...

Scope and Contents note From the Series: This category, extending from Box 6656, Folder 37 to Box 6657, Folder 9 contains reports, memos, articles, and correspondence from the period 1951-1953. The Wage Stabilization Board, of which Killingsworth became Chair, was created in 1951 to promote industrial peace so that vital production would not be hampered during the Korean War. Researchers may be particularly interested in the several articles describing wage controls which this section contains, authored by such notables as Nathan...