Preliminary Inventory of the Frank Traver De Vyver Papers, 1914-1980
[top]Descriptive Summary
TitleFrank Traver De Vyver Papers, 1914-1980
Creator
De Vyver, Frank Traver, 1904-
Extent
8 Linear Feet
2746 Items
Repository
2746 Items
Rare Book, Manuscript, and SpecialCollections Library, Duke University
Language
English.
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Administrative Information
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Frank Traver De VyverPapers, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special CollectionsLibrary, Duke University.
Provenance
The Frank Traver De Vyver Papers were receivedby the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special CollectionsLibrary as a gift in 1972-1989.
Processing Information
Processed by RBMSCL staff
Completed June 30, 1983
Encoded by Elizabeth Arnold
This finding aid is NCEAD compliant.
This collection is unprocessed: materials may not have been ordered and described beyond their original condition.
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Biographical Note
Frank Traver de Vyver (1904-) was one of theprincipal actors in American labor history. He served asVice President of Erwin Cotton Mills, Inc., whileconcurrently a professor of economics at Duke University,and was a member of the Federal Advisory Council and anarbitrator for the American Arbitration Association.
[top]Collection Overview
Concerns the labor situation in theindustrializing South. Contains personal and officialcorrespondence; documents on collective bargaining,employment security, labor-management collections, and therole of the Federal Government through such agencies as theFederal Mediation and Conciliation Service and the NationalJoint Board for Settlement of Jurisdictional Disputes;printed material, including pamphlets, leaflets, andreprints, pertaining to the United Steelworkers of America,the Textile Workers Union of America, the InternationalAssociation of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, theFederal Advisory Council, General Motors, AmericanArbitration Association (which include such companies asGeorgia Power Company, General Tire and Rubber Company,Weyerhaeuser Company, Duke Power Company, and Florida Powerand Light Company), the International Brotherhood ofTeamsters, and the War Production Board.
Pictures include an 1899 photograph of a group ofworkers, mostly children, at a spinning mill; mill houses;and the Saxon Mills W.O. W. Band, Spartanburg, S.C. Serialsincluded are
Labor Relations Reporter,Labor Law Reports, Workers Education Bureau of AmericaNewsletter, Textile Workers Voice, and
Christian Economics.
Articles written by De Vyver are also included.
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Subject Headings
These are searchable subject entries for this collection. Performing a search on these subjects in the Duke University Libraries online catalog will bring up other related research materials.
- De Vyver, Frank Traver, 1904-.
- United States. Federal Mediation andConciliation Service.
- United States. War ProductionBoard.
- American ArbitrationAssociation.
- American Federation ofLabor.
- Congress of Industrial Organizations(U.S.)
- Erwin Cotton Mills.
- Florida Power & LightCompany.
- General MotorsCorporation.
- International Association of Machinistsand Aerospace Workers.
- International Brotherhood of ElectricalWorkers.
- Textile Workers Union ofAmerica.
- United Paperworkers InternationalUnion.
- United Rubber, Cork, Linoleum, andPlastic Workers of America.
- United Steelworkers ofAmerica.
- Arbitration,Industrial.
- Collective bargaining.
- Grievance procedures.
- Industrial relations.
- Strikes and lockouts--Steelindustry--United States.
- Labor unions.
Related Material
For more information, see the Frank Traver DeVyver Papers, 1939-1979, in the Duke UniversityArchives.
 | List of Series in Collection | |||||||
 |  | Includes accessions 3/27/1979, 6/27/1979, 12/16/1980, 4/18/1981, 8/20/1981, 7/30/1982, 6/9/1983, and 6/30/1983 | ||||||
 | | Accession 7/19/1989 | ||||||
Preliminary Description of Unprocessed Collection
Includes accessions 3/27/1979, 6/27/1979, 12/16/1980, 4/18/1981, 8/20/1981, 7/30/1982, 6/9/1983, and 6/30/1983
Contents of Box 1:
[Technical Services staff may need toreformat brittle paper before use.]
Addresses andWritings
American Labor Management, BriefHistory, by the U.S. Department of Labor, 1948
Arbitration
Acme Boot Company
Albemarle PaperCompany
Arbitration Cases -General
Arbitrations
Borden ManufacturingCompany
Dayco ArbitrationPanel
Duke Power Company
Erwin Cotton MillsCompany
Erwin Mills, Inc.
Box 2
Contents of Box 2:
Arbitration
Florida Power and LightCompany
General Telephone Company ofFlorida
General Tire and RubberCompany
Box 3
Contents of Box 3:
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Arbitration
General Tire and RubberCompany
Georgia PowerCompany
Jim Robbins Seat BeltCompany
Memphis and Shelby CountyHospiral Authority
Memphis ParkCommission
Box 4
Contents of Box 4:
[Technical Services staff may need toreformat brittle paper before use.]
Arbitration
Niemand Industries,Inc.
Paper on Arbitration
Rose Hill PoultryCorporation
Stein-Hall Southern,Inc.
West Virginia Pulp and PaperCompany
Weyerhaeuser Company
Box 5
Contents of Box 5:
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Australian Conciliation andArbitration System
Automation - Effects on LaborForce
Automotive and Aviation PartsManufacturers, Inc., re Memo to Management by Frank Rising,1945
Arbitration between the GreatAtlantic and Pacific Tea Co. and the Retail Store EmployeesUnion, Local 876, AFL-CIO
Chamber of Commerce of the UnitedStates; re Dependents Allowances Under State UnemploymentCompensation Laws, 1947
Collective Bargaining
Address by George Baldanzi, 1948
Manual, 1946
North Carolina Mutual LifeInsurance Co's. Bargaining Agreement, 1973
Communists in LaborRelations
Comparative Summary ofUnemployment Insurance Laws and Their Application in FiveSelected Areas, 1947
Cone Mills Corp., Greensboro, NC(Clippings), 1955
Correspondence, 1944-1954
Box 6
Contents of Box 6:
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Correspondence, 1955-1972
Cotton Textile Mills - WageAnalyses
Durham County HospitalCorp.
Employment Security
Erwin Cotton Mills Co.
Strikes, (Clippings), 1945-1954
Agreement with TWUA, 1941
Analyses of Mills Pay Rolls, 1945
Job Analysis
Proposed Wage Increases, 1942
Rate and EarningData
Statement to the National WarLabor Board re TWUA vs. Erwin Cotton Mills Co., 1944
Box 7
Contents of Box 7:
[Technical Services staff may need toreformat newsprint before use.]
Erwin Mills, Inc.
Clippings, 1952
Incentive System
Erwin Mills, Inc. vs.TWUA
[Scrap Book]
Federal AdvisoryCouncil
Committee on BenefitFinancing
Committee onDisqualification
Federal Mediation and ConciliationService, re Statement of Arbitration Functions andFacilities, 1948
Federal-State Employment Service, 1959
Box 8
Contents of Box 8:
Free Market
General MotorsCorporation
Third Conference for College andUniversity Educators, 1947
Fourth Conference for Collegeand University Educators, 1948
German Labor Relations
Grievance Procedure Manual, U.S.Department of Labor
Hoover Commission Recommendationsre Statutes or Agencies Affecting Business
Industrial Relations
Positions as Approved by the NAMBoard of Directors, 1950
Proposed Programs
Insurance, Life
Insurance, Medical
International Labor Conference, 1950
International Labor Organization, 1954
Labor RelationCommittee
Labor-ManagementRelations
Report of the Joint Committee onLabor-Management Relations, Congress of the United States, 1947?
Statement by Arthur J.Goldberg
Bill to Amend theLabor-Management Relations Act, 1947
Labor-Management Reporting andDisclosure Act, 1959
Box 9
Contents of Box 9:
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[Attention: Contains
pictorialmaterials.]
Management Organization, Addressby Herbert R. Northrup on, 1954
Merit Examination System of NorthCarolina
Monash University - Faculty ofEconomics and Politics - Lecture Notes on LaborRelations
National Association ofManufacturers (NAM), Law Department Memo
National Joint Board forSettlement of Jurisdictional Disputes, Plan for
National War Labor Board - Manualof Decisions
New Jersey State Federation ofLabor, Address of Arthur P. Pratt re UnemploymentCompensation, 1946
North Carolina Business Index bythe Bureau of Research and Statistics of the UnemploymentCompensation Commission of North Carolina, 1945
North Carolina CottonManufacturers Association, Inc., 1951
North Carolina UnemploymentCompensation Commission, Bureau of Research and Statistics,re Labor Market Survey of Durham, Granville, and VanceCounties, 1942
Old Age and SurvivorsInsurance
Older Workers
Pictures
Princeton University, Address bySamuel K. McConnell, Jr. at the Graduate School of, reLabor-Management Legislation, 1953
Printed Matters
Pamphlets
Periodicals
Public Opinion Survey, by theGallup Organization, Inc. for Duke University, of Workersin the American and Reynolds Tobacco Companies, 1967
Box 10
Contents of Box 10:
Regional Labor Supply CommitteeMinutes
Regional War Labor Board reHandbook of Organization, Procedures, Functions
Reports, 1920-1944
Retirement Security
Social Security
Social Welfare, Role of Governmentin
Southern TextileCommission
State of Indiana, Appellate Court,re Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation vs. The Review Boardof the Indiana Employment Security Division, et.al.
Textile Workers Union ofAmerica
Proposed Wage Increases for theSouthern Cotton Textile Industry, 1942
Reports by Solomon Barkin, 1948-1955
Statement to National War LaborBoard re the Cotton-Rayon
Box 11
Contents of Box 11:
Unemployment Insurance
Barber vs. Crouse
Unemployment CompensationCommission of North Carolina re Decision of the Chairman, 1944
Disqualifications
Financing
United Auto Workers-Congress ofIndustrial Organizations (UAW-CIO)
United Steel Workers of America, 1959
Welfare Plans
Western Carolina ManufacturesAssociation, the North Carolina Industrial Council, 1948
Miscellaneous, 1914-1954,
1956-1973
Box 12
Contents of Box 12:
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Correspondence, 1948-1950
"Extent of TradeUnionism in the South"
Material
Federal AdvisoryCouncil
Papers, 1947-Sept. 14,1949
Papers, Sept. 14-15,1949
Papers, Sept. 15,1949-1950
Papers, 1951-1952
Papers, 1953,Jan.-Sept.
Papers, Oct. 1953-1954and undated
Box 13
Contents of Box 13:
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[Attention: Contains pictorialmaterials.]
General Motors
Miscellany, 1928-1950
Pictures, 1899 andundated
Printed Material, 1929-1948
Box 14
Contents of Box 14:
Printed Material, 1949-1959
Box 15
Contents of Box 15:
[Technical Services staff may need toreformat brittle paper before use.]
Printed Material, 1960-1967,
1972-1973 andundated
Serials, 1948-1952
Wage Case: Twenty-ThreeMills
Papers, 1937-Aug.1944
Papers, 1944,Sept.-Oct.
Papers, Nov.1944-1945
[Volume]
Box 16
Contents of Box 16:
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"OperationDixie"
Arbitration
Union Racketeering
Articles
Texitle WorkersVoice,
1949-1956
Miscellany
Publications
Clippings
Erwin Mills ContractNegotiations
Printed Material, 1946-1980
Box 17
Contents of Box 17:
Arbitration -Correspondence
Arbitration in General
Charisma Chair Company andUpholsterers' International Union of North America, Local320
City of Memphis Hospital andAmerican Federation of State, County, and MunicipalEmployees
de Kock, Alan
General Tire and Rubber Companyand the United Rubber, Cork, Linoleum, and Plastic Workersof America, Local 850
Georgia Power Company andInternational Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local84
Box 18
Contents of Box 18:
Georgia Power Company andInternational Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local84
Hoerner Waldorf Division ofChampion International Corporation and United PaperworkersInternational Union, Local 425
Mohawk Rubber Company and UnitedRubber, Cork, Linoleum, and Plastic Workers of America,Local 1023
Union Camp Corporation and UnitedPaperworkers International Union
Westinghouse Electric Corporationand United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners ofAmerica, Local 3130
Agreement Between Erwin Mills,Inc. and Textile Workers Union of America
Textile WorkersVoice,
April 1,1955
Box 19
Contents of Box 19:
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Periodicals
AmericanFederationist,
1930-1931
Current History,
1930
Law andContemporary Problems,
1938
Printed Material, 1930-1975
Box 20
Contents of Box 20:
[Technical Services staff may need toreformat newsprint before use.]
[Scrap Book]
Papers, 1926-1969
Oversize Folder 1
Contents of Oversize Folder 1:
"Erwin ScabSpecial"
and other clippings
Accession 7/19/1989
Contents of Box 1:
[Technical Services staff may need toreformat newsprint or other brittle before use.]
Labor Market Reports, 1941-1942
Professional Correspondence, 1941-1942
Includes correspondence with the WarProduction and Social Security Boards.
"Utilization of PlantFacilities Under National Defense Programs,"
1941November
Regional Labor Supply Committee(Region IV) materials, 1941-1942
National Commission for theConservation of Manpower in Defense Industries, May 1,1941
Includes listing of personnel and specialagents connected with the program.
