devyverfrank Preliminary Inventory of the Frank Traver De Vyver Papers, 1914-1980 Processed by: Rubenstein Library staff;machine-readable finding aid created by: Elizabeth Arnold

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 Descriptive Summary Frank Traver De Vyver Papers, 1914-1980 De Vyver, Frank Traver, 1904- 9.5 Linear Feet 3646 Items David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog. English. Administrative Information Access Restrictions

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[Identification of item], Frank Traver De Vyver Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.

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The Frank Traver De Vyver Papers were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library as a gift in 1972-1989.

Accessions included in this finding aid: 2010-0058.

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 Biographical Note

Frank Traver de Vyver (1904-) was one of the principal actors in American labor history. He served as Vice President of Erwin Cotton Mills, Inc., while concurrently a professor of economics at Duke University, and was a member of the Federal Advisory Council and an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association.

 Collection Overview

Concerns the labor situation in the industrializing South. Contains personal and official correspondence; documents on collective bargaining, employment security, labor-management collections, and the role of the Federal Government through such agencies as the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service and the National Joint Board for Settlement of Jurisdictional Disputes; printed material, including pamphlets, leaflets, and reprints, pertaining to the United Steelworkers of America, the Textile Workers Union of America, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, the Federal Advisory Council, General Motors, American Arbitration Association (which include such companies as Georgia Power Company, General Tire and Rubber Company, Weyerhaeuser Company, Duke Power Company, and Florida Powerand Light Company), the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, and the War Production Board.

Pictures include an 1899 photograph of a group of workers, mostly children, at a spinning mill; mill houses; and the Saxon Mills W.O.W. Band, Spartanburg, S.C. Serials included are Labor Relations Reporter, Labor Law Reports, Workers Education Bureau of America Newsletter, Textile Workers Voice, and Christian Economics. Articles written by De Vyver are also included.

Accession 2010-0058 includes additional materials from De Vyver's career as an arbitrator and an economics professor, as well as several folders of material relating to wages and labor in South Africa during the 1960s. South Africa materials include conciliation agreements, company reports, wage reports, and other constitutions and agreements from various South African trade unions such as mining, textiles, sugar, and mills.

 Subject Headings

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De Vyver, Frank Traver, 1904-. United States. Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. United States. War Production Board. American Arbitration Association. American Federation of Labor. Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.) Erwin Cotton Mills. Florida Power & Light Company. General Motors Corporation. International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Textile Workers Union of America. United Paperworkers International Union. United Rubber, Cork, Linoleum, and Plastic Workers of America. United Steelworkers of America. Arbitration, Industrial. Collective bargaining. Grievance procedures. Industrial relations. Strikes and lockouts--Steel industry--United States. Labor unions. South Africa--Economics. Contents of 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 1 Contents of Box 1:

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 Addresses and Writings American Labor Management, Brief History, by the U.S. Department of Labor, 1948 Arbitration Acme Boot Company Albemarle Paper Company Arbitration Cases-General Arbitrations Borden Manufacturing Company Dayco Arbitration Panel Duke Power Company Erwin Cotton Mills Company Erwin Mills, Inc. 2 Contents of Box 2: Arbitration Florida Power and Light Company General Telephone Company of Florida General Tire and Rubber Company 3 Contents of Box 3:

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 Arbitration General Tire and Rubber Company Georgia Power Company Jim Robbins Seat Belt Company Memphis and Shelby County Hospiral Authority Memphis Park Commission 4 Contents of Box 4:

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 Arbitration Niemand Industries, Inc. Paper on Arbitration Rose Hill Poultry Corporation Stein-Hall Southern, Inc. West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company Weyerhaeuser Company 5 Contents of Box 5:

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 Australian Conciliation and Arbitration System Automation-Effects on Labor Force Automotive and Aviation Parts Manufacturers, Inc., re Memo to Management by Frank Rising,1945 Arbitration between the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. and the Retail Store Employees Union, Local 876, AFL-CIO Chamber of Commerce of the United States; re Dependents Allowances Under State Unemployment Compensation Laws, 1947 Collective Bargaining Address by George Baldanzi, 1948 Manual, 1946 North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Co's. Bargaining Agreement, 1973 Communists in Labor Relations Comparative Summary of Unemployment Insurance Laws and Their Application in Five Selected Areas, 1947 Cone Mills Corp., Greensboro, NC (Clippings), 1955 Correspondence, 1944-1954 6 Contents of Box 6:

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 Correspondence, 1955-1972 Cotton Textile Mills-Wage Analyses Durham County Hospital Corp. 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 Earning Data Statement to the National War Labor Board re TWUA vs. Erwin Cotton Mills Co., 1944 7 Contents of Box 7:

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 Erwin Mills, Inc. Clippings, 1952 Incentive System Erwin Mills, Inc. vs.TWUA [Scrap Book] Federal Advisory Council Committee on Benefit Financing Committee on Disqualification Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, re Statement of Arbitration Functions and Facilities, 1948 Federal-State Employment Service, 1959 8 Contents of Box 8: Free Market General Motors Corporation Third Conference for College and University Educators, 1947 Fourth Conference for College and University Educators, 1948 German Labor Relations Grievance Procedure Manual, U.S. Department of Labor Hoover Commission Recommendations re Statutes or Agencies Affecting Business Industrial Relations Positions as Approved by the NAM Board of Directors, 1950 Proposed Programs Insurance, Life Insurance, Medical International Labor Conference, 1950 International Labor Organization, 1954 Labor Relation Committee Labor-Management Relations Report of the Joint Committee on Labor-Management Relations, Congress of the United States, 1947? Statement by Arthur J.Goldberg Bill to Amend the Labor-Management Relations Act, 1947 Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act, 1959 9 Contents of Box 9:

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 Management Organization, Address by Herbert R. Northrup on, 1954 Merit Examination System of North Carolina Monash University-Faculty of Economics and Politics-Lecture Notes on Labor Relations National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), Law Department Memo National Joint Board for Settlement of Jurisdictional Disputes, Plan for National War Labor Board-Manualof Decisions New Jersey State Federation of Labor, Address of Arthur P. Pratt re Unemployment Compensation, 1946 North Carolina Business Index by the Bureau of Research and Statistics of the Unemployment Compensation Commission of North Carolina, 1945 North Carolina CottonManufacturers Association, Inc., 1951 North Carolina Unemployment Compensation Commission, Bureau of Research and Statistics, re Labor Market Survey of Durham, Granville, and Vance Counties, 1942 Old Age and Survivors Insurance Older Workers Pictures Princeton University, Address by Samuel K. McConnell, Jr. at the Graduate School of, re Labor-Management Legislation, 1953 Printed Matters Pamphlets Periodicals Public Opinion Survey, by the Gallup Organization, Inc. for Duke University, of Workers in the American and Reynolds Tobacco Companies, 1967 10 Contents of Box 10: Regional Labor Supply Committee Minutes Regional War Labor Board re Handbook of Organization, Procedures, Functions Reports, 1920-1944 Retirement Security Social Security Social Welfare, Role of Government in Southern Textile Commission State of Indiana, Appellate Court,re Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation vs. The Review Board of the Indiana Employment Security Division, et. al. Textile Workers Union of America Proposed Wage Increases for the Southern Cotton Textile Industry, 1942 Reports by Solomon Barkin, 1948-1955 Statement to National War Labor Board re the Cotton-Rayon 11 Contents of Box 11: Unemployment Insurance Barber vs. Crouse Unemployment Compensation Commission of North Carolina re Decision of the Chairman, 1944 Disqualifications Financing United Auto Workers-Congress of Industrial Organizations (UAW-CIO) United Steel Workers of America, 1959 Welfare Plans Western Carolina Manufactures Association, the North Carolina Industrial Council, 1948 Miscellaneous, 1914-1954, 1956-1973 12 Contents of Box 12:

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 Correspondence, 1948-1950 Extent of Trade Unionism in the South Material Federal Advisory Council Papers, 1947-Sept. 14,1949 Papers, Sept. 14-15,1949 Papers, Sept. 15, 1949-1950 Papers, 1951-1952 Papers, 1953, Jan.-Sept. Papers, Oct. 1953-1954 and undated 13 Contents of Box 13:

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 General Motors Miscellany, 1928-1950 Pictures, 1899 andundated Printed Material, 1929-1948 14 Contents of Box 14: Printed Material, 1949-1959 15 Contents of Box 15:

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 Printed Material, 1960-1967, 1972-1973 and undated Serials, 1948-1952 Wage Case: Twenty-Three Mills Papers, 1937-Aug. 1944 Papers, 1944, Sept.-Oct. Papers, Nov. 1944-1945 [Volume] 16 Contents of Box 16:

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 Operation Dixie Arbitration Union Racketeering Articles Texitle Workers Voice, 1949-1956 Miscellany Publications Clippings Erwin Mills Contract Negotiations Printed Material, 1946-1980 17 Contents of Box 17: Arbitration-Correspondence Arbitration in General Charisma Chair Company and Upholsterers' International Union of North America, Local 320 City of Memphis Hospital and American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees de Kock, Alan General Tire and Rubber Company and the United Rubber, Cork, Linoleum, and Plastic Workers of America, Local 850 Georgia Power Company and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 84 18 Contents of Box 18: Georgia Power Company and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 84 Hoerner Waldorf Division of Champion International Corporation and United Paperworkers International Union, Local 425 Mohawk Rubber Company and United Rubber, Cork, Linoleum, and Plastic Workers of America, Local 1023 Union Camp Corporation and United Paperworkers International Union Westinghouse Electric Corporation and United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, Local 3130 Agreement Between Erwin Mills, Inc. and Textile Workers Union of America Textile Workers Voice, April 1, 1955 19 Contents of Box 19:

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 Periodicals American Federationist, 1930-1931 Current History, 1930 Law and Contemporary Problems, 1938 Printed Material, 1930-1975 20 Contents of Box 20:

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 [Scrap Book] Papers, 1926-1969 1 Contents of Oversize Folder 1: Erwin Scab Special and other clippings Accession 7/19/1989 1 Contents of Box 1:

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 Labor Market Reports, 1941-1942 Professional Correspondence, 1941-1942

Includes correspondence with the War Production and Social Security Boards.

 Utilization of Plant Facilities Under National Defense Programs, 1941 November Regional Labor Supply Committee (Region IV) materials, 1941-1942 National Commission for the Conservation of Manpower in Defense Industries, May 1, 1941

Includes listing of personnel and special agents connected with the program.

 Accession (2010-0058) (1 box)

Accession 2010-0058 includes additional materials from De Vyver's career as an arbitrator and an economics professor, as well as several folders of material relating to wages and labor in South Africa during the 1960s. South Africa materials include conciliation agreements, company reports, wage reports, and other constitutions and agreements from various South African trade unions such as mining, textiles, sugar, and mills.

 1J.P. Stevens case, 1967 Joint Council on Economic Education, 1967-1969 (2 folders) Graduate program, Economics, 1957-1958 Subcommittee on Woman's College Physical Education Facilities, Duke University, 1966-1970 Subcommittee on University Center, 1963-1965 Economics Department meeting, 1963 Correspondence from the School of Medicine and the Department of Economics, 1937-1964 Correspondence about economics and politics at Duke, 1940s University Planning Committee, 1963 South Africa materials Conciliation Board agreements, 1940s-1960s Industrial Development Corporation, 1967 Economic reports, 1960s Constitutions/other trade union documents and agreements, 1937-1960s Wage and labor materials, 1958-1960s Tongaat Sugar Company surveys, 1967 Milling Industry reports, 1957 Clothing Industry Industrial Cellulose Corporation Bantu Consultative Committee meeting minutes, 1958-1964 Reports, meetings, and correspondence, 1960s