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Title: UAW National War Labor Board and National Labor Relations Board Type : Papers Dates: 1941-1950 Size : 7 linear feet, 7 storage boxes ID #: 634-uaw OCLC: ©Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs |
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Soon after Pearl Harbor, the UAW and other unions
voluntarily pledged to forego strikes for the war’s duration. To compensate, the federal government
agreed to control prices, but wage increases were also limited. The National War Labor Board was
established late in 1941 (formally, by executive order in January of 1942) to
administer wage control in national industries such as automobiles, shipping,
railways, airlines, telegraph lines, and mines. It ceased operating in 1946, and thereafter labor disputes
were handled by the National Labor Relations Board, originally set up in 1934.
The UAW National War Labor Board and National Labor
Relations Board Collection consists exclusively of briefs of cases involving
the UAW and companies in the automobile industry, especially GM, Chrysler,
Ford, and Continental Motors Corporation.
Boxes 1-5 (1941-50) are organized in loose alphabetical order and Boxes
5-7 (1942-44) in strict alphabetical order.
UAW War Policy
Collection 0263-uaw
UAW War Policy Division: Women’s Bureau 0640-uaw