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Preliminary Inventory of the Frank Traver De Vyver Papers, 1914-1980

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.

Descriptive Summary

Title
Frank Traver De Vyver Papers, 1914-1980
Creator
De Vyver, Frank Traver, 1904-
Extent
9.5 Linear Feet, 3646 Items
Repository
David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University
Location
For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Language
English.

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Contents of the Collection

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Addresses and Writings
Box 1
American Labor Management, Brief History, by the U.S. Department of Labor, 1948
Box 1
Acme Boot Company
Box 1
Albemarle Paper Company
Box 1
Arbitration Cases-General
Box 1
Arbitrations
Box 1
Borden Manufacturing Company
Box 1
Dayco Arbitration Panel
Box 1
Duke Power Company
Box 1
Erwin Cotton Mills Company
Box 1
Erwin Mills, Inc.
Box 1
Florida Power and Light Company
Box 2
General Telephone Company of Florida
Box 2
General Tire and Rubber Company
Box 2

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General Tire and Rubber Company
Box 3
Georgia Power Company
Box 3
Jim Robbins Seat Belt Company
Box 3
Memphis and Shelby County Hospiral Authority
Box 3
Memphis Park Commission
Box 3

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Niemand Industries, Inc.
Box 4
Paper on Arbitration
Box 4
Rose Hill Poultry Corporation
Box 4
Stein-Hall Southern, Inc.
Box 4
West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company
Box 4
Weyerhaeuser Company
Box 4

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Australian Conciliation and Arbitration System
Box 5
Automation-Effects on Labor Force
Box 5
Automotive and Aviation Parts Manufacturers, Inc., re Memo to Management by Frank Rising,1945
Box 5
Arbitration between the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. and the Retail Store Employees Union, Local 876, AFL-CIO
Box 5
Chamber of Commerce of the United States; re Dependents Allowances Under State Unemployment Compensation Laws, 1947
Box 5
Address by George Baldanzi, 1948
Box 5
Manual, 1946
Box 5
North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Co's. Bargaining Agreement, 1973
Box 5
Communists in Labor Relations
Box 5
Comparative Summary of Unemployment Insurance Laws and Their Application in Five Selected Areas, 1947
Box 5
Cone Mills Corp., Greensboro, NC (Clippings), 1955
Box 5
Correspondence, 1944-1954
Box 5

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Correspondence, 1955-1972
Box 6
Cotton Textile Mills-Wage Analyses
Box 6
Durham County Hospital Corp.
Box 6
Employment Security
Box 6
Strikes, (Clippings), 1945-1954
Box 6
Agreement with TWUA, 1941
Box 6
Analyses of Mills Pay Rolls, 1945
Box 6
Job Analysis
Box 6
Proposed Wage Increases, 1942
Box 6
Rate and Earning Data
Box 6
Statement to the National War Labor Board re TWUA vs. Erwin Cotton Mills Co., 1944
Box 6

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Clippings, 1952
Box 7
Incentive System
Box 7
Erwin Mills, Inc. vs.TWUA
Box 7
[Scrap Book]
Box 7
Committee on Benefit Financing
Box 7
Committee on Disqualification
Box 7
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, re Statement of Arbitration Functions and Facilities, 1948
Box 7
Federal-State Employment Service, 1959
Box 7
Free Market
Box 8
Third Conference for College and University Educators, 1947
Box 8
Fourth Conference for College and University Educators, 1948
Box 8
German Labor Relations
Box 8
Grievance Procedure Manual, U.S. Department of Labor
Box 8
Hoover Commission Recommendations re Statutes or Agencies Affecting Business
Box 8
Positions as Approved by the NAM Board of Directors, 1950
Box 8
Proposed Programs
Box 8
Insurance, Life
Box 8
Insurance, Medical
Box 8
International Labor Conference, 1950
Box 8
International Labor Organization, 1954
Box 8
Labor Relation Committee
Box 8
Report of the Joint Committee on Labor-Management Relations, Congress of the United States, 1947?
Box 8
Statement by Arthur J.Goldberg
Box 8
Bill to Amend the Labor-Management Relations Act, 1947
Box 8
Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act, 1959
Box 8

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Management Organization, Address by Herbert R. Northrup on, 1954
Box 9
Merit Examination System of North Carolina
Box 9
Monash University-Faculty of Economics and Politics-Lecture Notes on Labor Relations
Box 9
National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), Law Department Memo
Box 9
National Joint Board for Settlement of Jurisdictional Disputes, Plan for
Box 9
National War Labor Board-Manualof Decisions
Box 9
New Jersey State Federation of Labor, Address of Arthur P. Pratt re Unemployment Compensation, 1946
Box 9
North Carolina Business Index by the Bureau of Research and Statistics of the Unemployment Compensation Commission of North Carolina, 1945
Box 9
North Carolina CottonManufacturers Association, Inc., 1951
Box 9
North Carolina Unemployment Compensation Commission, Bureau of Research and Statistics, re Labor Market Survey of Durham, Granville, and Vance Counties, 1942
Box 9
Old Age and Survivors Insurance
Box 9
Older Workers
Box 9
Pictures
Box 9
Princeton University, Address by Samuel K. McConnell, Jr. at the Graduate School of, re Labor-Management Legislation, 1953
Box 9
Pamphlets
Box 9
Periodicals
Box 9
Public Opinion Survey, by the Gallup Organization, Inc. for Duke University, of Workers in the American and Reynolds Tobacco Companies, 1967
Box 9
Regional Labor Supply Committee Minutes
Box 10
Regional War Labor Board re Handbook of Organization, Procedures, Functions
Box 10
Reports, 1920-1944
Box 10
Retirement Security
Box 10
Social Security
Box 10
Social Welfare, Role of Government in
Box 10
Southern Textile Commission
Box 10
State of Indiana, Appellate Court,re Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation vs. The Review Board of the Indiana Employment Security Division, et. al.
Box 10
Proposed Wage Increases for the Southern Cotton Textile Industry, 1942
Box 10
Reports by Solomon Barkin, 1948-1955
Box 10
Statement to National War Labor Board re the Cotton-Rayon
Box 10
Barber vs. Crouse
Box 11
Unemployment Compensation Commission of North Carolina re Decision of the Chairman, 1944
Box 11
Disqualifications
Box 11
Financing
Box 11
United Auto Workers-Congress of Industrial Organizations (UAW-CIO)
Box 11
United Steel Workers of America, 1959
Box 11
Welfare Plans
Box 11
Western Carolina Manufactures Association, the North Carolina Industrial Council, 1948
Box 11
Miscellaneous, 1914-1954, 1956-1973
Box 11

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Correspondence, 1948-1950
Box 12
Extent of Trade Unionism in the South Material
Box 12
Papers, 1947-Sept. 14,1949
Box 12
Papers, Sept. 14-15,1949
Box 12
Papers, Sept. 15, 1949-1950
Box 12
Papers, 1951-1952
Box 12
Papers, 1953, Jan.-Sept.
Box 12
Papers, Oct. 1953-1954 and undated
Box 12

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General Motors
Box 13
Miscellany, 1928-1950
Box 13
Pictures, 1899 andundated
Box 13
Printed Material, 1929-1948
Box 13
Printed Material, 1949-1959
Box 14

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Printed Material, 1960-1967, 1972-1973 and undated
Box 15
Serials, 1948-1952
Box 15
Papers, 1937-Aug. 1944
Box 15
Papers, 1944, Sept.-Oct.
Box 15
Papers, Nov. 1944-1945
Box 15
[Volume]
Box 15

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Operation Dixie
Box 16
Arbitration
Box 16
Union Racketeering
Box 16
Articles
Box 16
Texitle Workers Voice, 1949-1956
Box 16
Miscellany
Box 16
Publications
Box 16
Clippings
Box 16
Erwin Mills Contract Negotiations
Box 16
Printed Material, 1946-1980
Box 16
Arbitration-Correspondence
Box 17
Arbitration in General
Box 17
Charisma Chair Company and Upholsterers' International Union of North America, Local 320
Box 17
City of Memphis Hospital and American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees
Box 17
de Kock, Alan
Box 17
General Tire and Rubber Company and the United Rubber, Cork, Linoleum, and Plastic Workers of America, Local 850
Box 17
Georgia Power Company and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 84
Box 17
Georgia Power Company and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 84
Box 18
Hoerner Waldorf Division of Champion International Corporation and United Paperworkers International Union, Local 425
Box 18
Mohawk Rubber Company and United Rubber, Cork, Linoleum, and Plastic Workers of America, Local 1023
Box 18
Union Camp Corporation and United Paperworkers International Union
Box 18
Westinghouse Electric Corporation and United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, Local 3130
Box 18
Agreement Between Erwin Mills, Inc. and Textile Workers Union of America
Box 18
Textile Workers Voice, April 1, 1955
Box 18

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American Federationist, 1930-1931
Box 19
Current History, 1930
Box 19
Law and Contemporary Problems, 1938
Box 19
Printed Material, 1930-1975
Box 19

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[Scrap Book]
Box 20
Papers, 1926-1969
Box 20
Erwin Scab Special and other clippings
Box 20

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Labor Market Reports, 1941-1942
Box 1
Professional Correspondence, 1941-1942

Includes correspondence with the War Production and Social Security Boards.

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

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

Box 1

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.

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

Historical 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.

Subject Headings

Preferred Citation

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

Provenance

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.

Processing Information

Processed by Rubenstein Library staff

Completed June 30, 1983

Encoded by Elizabeth Arnold

Updated by Meghan Lyon, March 2010

This finding aid is NCEAD compliant.

This collection is unprocessed: materials may not have been ordered and described beyond their original condition.