Title: Nathan Feinsinger Papers
Inclusive Dates: circa 1938-1966

Creator:

• Feinsinger, Nathan

Call Number: M73-236

Quantity: 4.0 cubic feet (4 records center cartons)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Papers of Nathan Feinsinger, an arbitator, mediator, and government official in matters of wage determination and dispute settlements. The papers include a 1952 recommendation of the National Wage Stabilization Board (chaired by Feinsinger), and the ensuing steel strike; a 1946 steel strike in which Feinsinger chaired a presidential fact finding board; labor cases in which Feinsinger acted as an attorney for the Wisconsin Labor Relations Board; materials on General Motors-United Auto Workers grievances which he umpired; and a civil rights controversy involving the NAACP Youth Council of Milwaukee and the Fraternal Order of Eagles (1966) which he mediated. Also included are speeches, writings, and a small amount of correspondence.

Note:

Accessions M61-252 and M81-109 have been integrated with accession M73-236.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-m73236

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Feinsinger was also a law professor at the University of Wisconsin, and additional Feinsinger papers may be found in the University Archives holdings.

Acquisition Information

Presented by Nathan Feinsinger, Madison, Wisconsin. Accession Number: M73-236

M73-236	National Wage Stabilization Board
Box   1 Folder   1-11	Steel industry dispute-transcripts of proceedings, February 1952
Box   1 Folder   12-14	Conference reports, July-August 1951
Box   1 Folder   15-17	Regional Directors conference reports, July 1951
Box   1 Folder   18-19	Executive meetings-transcripts of proceedings, July 1951
Box   2 Folder   1	Press conferences, 1951-1952
Box   2 Folder   2	Petroleum industry disputes-hearing transcripts, April 1952
Box   2 Folder   3	Resolutions, 1950-1952
Box   2 Folder   4	Regulations, 1951-1952
Box   2 Folder   5	History [partial typescript]
Box   2 Folder   6	Miscellany
Box   2 Folder   7	Confidential memoranda by Feinsinger, 1951-1952
Box   2 Folder   8-16	Steel
Box   2 Folder   17	Steel-termination clause data, 1945-1946
Box   2 Folder   18	Steel-correspondence between U.S. Steel, United Steelworkers Union, President Truman, and Secretary of Labor, 1945-1946
Box   2 Folder   19	Steel [statements and testimony of others]
Box   2 Folder   20	Steel [news articles]
Box   2 Folder   21	Congressional Record excerpts, 1952-1953
Box   2 Folder   22-23	Congressional hearing testimony by Feinsinger
	United Steelworkers of America and Various Steel and Iron Ore Companies, 1952
Box   3 Folder   1-9	Exhibits
Box   3 Folder   10	Panel reports and recommendations
Box   3 Folder   11	President's Steel Fact Finding Board-terminal report, 1946
Box   3 Folder   12	Legislative bills relating to the Defense Production Act, 1952
	General Motors-United Auto Workers umpire system
Box   3 Folder   13-21	Umpire decisions, 1950-1965
Box   3 Folder   22-25	General materials
	Wisconsin Labor Relations Board (WLRB) cases
Box   4 Folder   1	Blum Brothers Box Company v. WLRB, 1938
Box   4 Folder   2-3	Folding Furniture Works, Inc. v. WLRB, 1939
Box   4 Folder   4	E.G. Shinner & Company, Inc. v. WLRB, 1940
Box   4 Folder   5	Metropolitan Life Insurance Company v. WLRB, 1941
Box   4 Folder   6-9	WLRB v. Fred Rueping Leather Company, 1938
Box   4 Folder   10	United Shoe Workers of America v. WLRB
Box   4 Folder   11	WLRB petition regarding Hon. R.S. Cowrie
Box   4 Folder   12	NAACP Youth Council-Milwaukee v. Fraternal Order of Eagles, 1966
Box   4 Folder   13-14	Speeches
Box   4 Folder   15	Writings
Box   4 Folder   16	Correspondence
Box   4 Folder   17	National emergency strikes
Box   4 Folder   18	“Syllabus for a Course in Labor Law,” Marcus Manoff, 1948 [mimeograph]
Box   4 Folder   19	“The NLRB and Jurisdictional Disputes: The Aftermath of CBS,” James Atleson, undated
Box   4 Folder   20-21	Miscellaneous writings by others
Box   4 Folder   22	Miscellany