Part 1 (La Crosse Mss AW): Original Collection, 1946-1974
Physical Description: 6.8 c.f. (17 archives boxes) 
Scope and Content Note

The collection focuses upon material concerning labor disputes, primarily in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Illinois, for which Graff acted as arbitrator. Legal briefs, agreements, transcripts of hearings, decisions and publications trace the disposition of individual cases. For many cases, however, one or more of the categories of records is lacking.

The five series of papers have been retained in the basic order provided by Graff. Within the Decisions series, the individual decisions have been grouped together by subject or type of grievance, and arranged thereunder chronologically. Most of the decisions are spirit duplication copies, and contain such information as lists of the parties involved, persons appearing for the company and union, the issue in question, background, positions of the parties, analysis and decision, and awards.

The Hearings series contains verbatim transcripts of the arbitration proceedings and follow a question-answer format. At the end of some transcripts are exhibits such as photographs and photostats of receipts, which were submitted as evidence by one of the parties to the dispute. In many of the transcripts parts were underlined by Graff, apparently providing the evidential basis for his later decisions. The items in the series are arranged alphabetically by title. For the most part this means an arrangement by company name since companies generally are listed first in the title. Occasionally, however, unions come first.

The Briefs series includes both the pre-hearing and post-hearing legal briefs filed by the companies and the unions. The format for most is similar and contains such information as the statement of the issue, the applicable contract provisions, the “facts” relating to the individual dispute, an argument on behalf of the client, and a conclusion. Exhibits sometimes are included as appendices. Arrangement in the series is alphabetical by title. When conflicts arise, i.e. when one brief lists the company name first and another brief pertaining to the same dispute lists the union name first, the title chosen is that which corresponds with the transcript title for the hearing. In a few instances, a number of cases between the same company and union were arbitrated simultaneously. Briefs for such cases all have been included within the same folder.

The relatively small number of Agreements in the collection generally pre-date the relevant hearings between the concerned parties. They apparently are not agreements which resulted from the arbitration process, but rather are a separate category of exhibits used by the parties to point out particular areas of dispute.

Most prominent in the Publications series are the numerous items by Graff which have appeared in Labor Arbitration Awards during the period 1961-1974 and in Labor Relations Reporter, 1957-1973. Both publications feature synopses of important labor decisions, and focus upon the latest awards granted and types of precedents set in this area of law. The Miscellany folder also contains scattered decisions by Graff which have appeared in such publications as American Labor Arbitration, Report Bulletin. Among other isolated items, it includes a typed autobiographical sketch listing the companies and unions with which Graff most frequently met, and the procedures he followed when deciding a case.

Series: Decisions

Call-In and/or Report Pay, 1966-1969

Discipline (Discharge - Layoffs - Suspension - Disciplinary Warnings - Records), 1946-1974

Job Classifications and Pay, 1949-1974

Overtime - Distribution of Overtime - Overtime and Seniority Rights - Overtime Pay, (1954)-1961-1974

Seniority (Job Security - Promotions - Transfers - Recalls - Layoffs - Overtime Rights)

1952-1966

1966-1974

Subcontracting, 1961-1969

Vacations - Holiday - Pay, 1948-1972

Work Assignments (Seniority - Recall Rights - Job Preference - Transfers), 1956-1974

Work Stoppages, 1964-1971

Miscellany, 1955-1974

Series: Hearings

A.O. Smith Corporation, Milwaukee Works, and United Steelworkers, DALU 19806, AFL-CIO, April 16, 1973

A.Y. McDonald Manufacturing Company, Dubuque, Iowa and International Molders and Allied Workers, Local Union No. 263, June 28, 1974

Allied Industrial Workers of America, Local 646, and Modern Machine Works, Inc., July 9, 1974

Amalgamated Association of Street Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employees of America, Twin Cities Division 1005, and Twin City Lines, Inc., November 15, 1968

Appleton Machine Company and Local 747 of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, AFL-CIO, August 15, 1973

Babcock & Wilcox Company, and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 633, AFL-CIO and Fred Shirah, January 20, 1972

Beloit Corporation and Lodge No. 621 of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, AFL-CIO and Richard Unseth, Grievant, March 28, 1967

Beloit Corporation and Local 1197, District No. 68, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, AFL-CIO, October 17, 1973

Birds Eye Corporation of Waseca, Minnesota, and Hyacinth Denn, July 29, 1959

Boilers Local 1849 and Babcock & Wilcox Company, June 15, 1973

Briggs & Stratton Corporation, and Local 232, International Union, Allied Industrial Workers of America, AFL-CIO

June 19, 1972

December 15, 1972

November 12, 1973

Caradco, Inc., and Midwestern Millmen District Council, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, AFL-CIO, June 16, 1960

Caterpillar Tractor Company and International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, AFL-CIO, Lodge 851, Case Nos. 984, 989-991, and 1000, August 13, 1970

Celotex Corporation, L'Anse, Michigan Plant, and International Woodworkers of America, Local Union IV-282, L'Anse, Michigan, October 30, 1963

Charmin Paper Products Company, and United Papermakers International, Local 65, Green Bay, Wisconsin

April 30, 1973

December 4, 1974

Chippewa Plastics, and Ben Stanley, [circa 1958]

Controls Company of America, and Local 806, International Union of Allied Industrial Workers, AFL-CIO, September 18, 1974

The Crestline Company, and Midwestern Millmen District Council of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, August 8, 1961

DeLuxe Engineering, La Crosse, Wisconsin, and International Association of Machinists, Local Union No. 1115, May 18, 1956

Derse Advertising Company, and Painters and Allied Trades, Local 770, April 23, 1974

The Dow Metal Products Company, Madison Plant, A Division of the Dow Chemical Company and United Steelworkers of America, Local Union 4804, August 11, 1967

Elgin Sweeper Company and District Lodge No. 12 of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM-AFL-CIO), April 22, 1968

FMC Corporation, Outdoor Power Equipment Division, Port Washington, Wisconsin, and District No. 10, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, September 10, 1974

Gale Products, Division of Outboard Marine Corporation, Galesburg, Illinois, and Local Lodge No. 1659 I.A.M. and A.W., AFL-CIO, Galesburg, Illinois, September 27, 1971

Gardner-Denver Company, Quincy, Illinois and International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, Lodge No. 822, AFL-CIO, May 8, 1970

General Electric Company and Lodge No. 1000, International Association of Machinists, AFL-CIO, September 2, 1964

Gisholt Machine Company, Madison, Wisconsin, and Local No. 1404 of the United Steelworkers of America, AFL-CIO, March 20, 1970

Gisholt Machine Company, Division of Giddings and Lewis, Inc., and United Steelworkers of America, AFL-CIO, on Behalf of Itself and Local 1404, September 10, 1971

Green Bay Packaging Company, Inc., and International Brotherhood of Pulp, Paper Mill and Sulfite Workers, AFL-CIO, Local 631, Concerning Grievance filed by Laverne Huntington, April 17, 1970

Hamilton Manufacturing Company and the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, Local Union No. 1533, May 28, 1971

Howmet Corporation (Crucible Steel Casting Division) and Local Number 85, United Steelworkers of America, June 11, 1971

International Chemical Workers Union, Local No. 12, and Monsanto, Wm. G. Krummrich Plant, Sauget, Illinois, May 9, 1974

The Kroger Bakery, and American Bakery and Confectionery Workers Local Union No. 372, September 13, 1971

Lake Shore, Inc., and United Steelworkers of America, Local 3168, February 15, 1972

Marine Association of Chicago and Independent Employers, and Local 19, International Longshoremen's Association, AFL-CIO, June 30, 1969

National Biscuit Company, and the American Bakery and Confectionery Workers' Local Union No. 300, AFL-CIO, November 26, 1962

Nicolet Paper Company, and United Papermakers and Paper Workers and Local No. 62, June 4, 1963

Northern Indiana Public Service Company, and United Steelworkers of America and its Local No. 12775, November 25, 1974

Pepsi Cola General Bottlers and Local 744 Brotherhood of Teamsters, July 30, 1973

Philco Corporation, Appliance Division, Connersville Plants, and International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers, AFL-CIO and its Local 919, January 4, 1968

Philco-Ford Corporation, Appliance Division, Connersville Plants, and International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers, AFL-CIO and CLC and its Local 919, March 9, 1970

Radio Corporation of America, and Local Union No. 1160, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, AFL-CIO, ex rel. M.L. Crull, et al., February 9, 1968

Square D, and Technical Engineers' Association of Milwaukee, April 14, 1967

Trent Engineering Company, and Local No. 891, United Rubber, Cork, Linoleum and Plastic Workers of America, November 5, 1970

United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, Local 1533, and Hamilton Manufacturing Company, December 20, 1968

United Steelworkers of America, and Thermo King Corporation

April 28, 1972

June 4, 1973

United Stone and Allied Products Workers of America (CIO), and Staso Milling Company, Kremlin, Wisconsin, January 18, 1952

Western Electric, and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 1859, May 16, 1974

Wisconsin Public Service Corporation, and Local Union 310, International Union of Operating Engineers, AFL-CIO, May 21, 1971

Series: Briefs

A.Y. McDonald Manufacturing Company, Dubuque, Iowa, and International Molders and Allied Workers, Local Union No. 263, 1974

ABEX Corporation, AMSCO Division, Two Harbors, Minnesota, and United Steelworkers of America, Local Union Number 7183, 1970

Allied Industrial Workers of America, Local 232 (Geraldine V. Loh), and Briggs & Stratton Corporation, 1972

Allied Industrial Workers of America, Local 646, and Modern Machine Works, Inc., 1974

Amalgamated Association of Street Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employees of America, Twin Cities Division 1005, and Twin City Lines, 1968

American Oil Company, and Independent Oil Workers Union, Local No. 10, 1968

Appleton Machine Company, and Lodge 747 of the International Association of Machinists, 1968

Appleton Wire Works Corporation, and United Paper Workers International Union, Local 995, 1974

Atlantic Richfield Company, and Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union, Local 7-210, circa 1967-1968

Badger Meter, Inc., and District No. 10 of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, 1974

Beloit Corporation and Lodge No. 621 of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, AFL-CIO, and Richard Unseth, Grievant, 1965

Bostrom Division of Universal Oil Products Company, and Independent Union of Bostrom Employees, 1974

Caradco, Inc., and Midwestern Millmen District Council, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, AFL-CIO, 1960

The Carr Adams & Collier Company, Dubuque, Iowa, and Local Union 937 United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, 1956

Caterpillar Tractor Company, Joliet, Illinois, and Lodge 851, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, AFL-CIO, 1970-1971

The Celotex Corporation, L'Anse, Michigan Plant, and Local IV-283 International Woodworkers of America, AFL-CIO, 1963

Chicago Rawhide Manufacturing Company, Elgin Division, and Elgin Rawhide Employees Association, Local 221, 1971

Chippewa Plastics, Inc., and Ben Stanley, 1958

Chippewa Plastics, Inc., and Local Union No. 460, United Rubber, Cork, Linoleum and Plastic Workers of America, 1962

The Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company, Mather “B” Mine, and United Steelworkers of America, AFL-CIO, 1966-1967

Clyde Iron Works, Inc., and United Steelworkers of America, Local Union No. 1424, 1968

Controls Company of America, and Local 806, International Union of Allied Industrial Workers, AFL-CIO, 1974

The Crestline Company, and Midwestern Millmen District Council, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, 1961

Cutler-Magner Company, Cutler-LaLiberte McDougall Corporation, and United Steelworkers of America, AFL-CIO, circa 1957

Derse Advertising Company, and Painters and Allied Trades Local 770, 1973-1974

The Dow Metal Products Company, Madison Plant, Division of the Dow Chemical Company, and United Steelworkers of America, AFL-CIO, Local 4804, 1967

Dynamatic Division of Eaton Yale & Towne Inc., and the International Association of Machinists Aerospace Workers, Lodge 34, 1968

E.W. Bliss Company, Eagle Signal Division, and International Association of Machinists, Local Lodge 2045, 1968

Elgin Rawhide Employees Association Local 221 - Chicago Joint Board Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen, AFL-CIO, and Chicago Rawhide Manufacturing Company, Elgin Division, 1971

Elgin Sweeper Company, and District Lodge No. 112 of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM-AFL-CIO), 1968

FMC Corporation, Outdoor Power Equipment Division, Port Washington, Wisconsin, and District No. 10, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, 1974

G. Heileman Brewing Company and Local Union No. 81, 1955

Gardner-Denver Company, Quincy, Illinois, and International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, Lodge No. 822, AFL-CIO, 1970

General Electric Company, Bloomington, Illinois, and Lodge No. 1000, International Association of Machinists, AFL-CIO, 1964

Gilbert Paper Company, and United Papermakers and Paperworkers, AFL-CIO, Local No. 477, circa 1970

Gilson Brothers Company, and UAW, AFL-CIO, and its Local 1291, 1967

Gisholt Machine Company, A Division of Giddings & Lewis, Inc., and United Steelworkers of America, on Behalf of Itself and its Local 1404, 1970-1971

The Golden Foundry, Division of Woodward Corporation, and Local No. 86, International Molders and Allied Workers, 1969

Great Northern Company, and Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union, AFL-CIO, and its Local Union No. 6-662, AFL-CIO, 1959-1960

Green Bay Packaging Company, Inc., and Local 631, International Brotherhood of Pulp, Papermill and Sulfite Workers, AFL-CIO, 1970

Hamilton Manufacturing Company, and United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, Local No. 1533, AFL-CIO, circa 1968-1971

Hoyt Mining Company, Grievance No. 7, Dan Sovil, 1955

Huebsch Launderers and Cleaners, and AFL-CIO Laundry and Dry Cleaning International Union, Local 228, 1966

International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, AFL-CIO, Local Lodge No. 1988, and Wahl Clipper Corporation, 1968-1969

International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers, AFL-CIO, Local 273, and the John Strange Paper Company, 1968-1969

International Chemical Workers Union, Local No. 12, AFL-CIO, and Monsanto Company's William G. Krummrich Plant, Sauget, Illinois, circa 1973

International Ladies Garment Workers Union, and Doughboy Industries, Inc., Plastic Division, circa 1957

Kimberly-Clark Corporation, Neenah, Wisconsin, and Industrial Construction and Machinery Erection Workers of America (Independent), 1969

Kimberly-Clark Corporation, Neenah, Wisconsin, and International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers, Local No. 482, 1967

The Louis Allis Company, and Local 1131, International Union of Electrical Radio and Machine Workers, AFL-CIO, 1965-1966

Macwhyte Company, and International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, AFL-CIO, and its Local 960, 1969

Midwest Manufacturing Corporation, and Midwest Lodge No. 2063, International Association of Machinists, AFL-CIO, 1961-1962

Milprint, Inc., and United Papermakers and Paperworkers, AFL-CIO, Local 356, 1964-1966

Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Company Company, St. Paul, Minnesota, and Local 6-75, Oil and Chemical and Atomic Workers International, AFL-CIO, circa 1961-1962

Montreal Mining Company, Grievance No. 257 (Leonard Peterson), 1955-1956

Morgan Company, and Midwestern Millmen District Council, Affiliated Local Union 1363, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, 1963

National Biscuit Company and the American Bakery and Confectionery Workers' Local Union No. 300, AFL-CIO, 1962-1963

Nekoosa-Edwards Paper Company, and Lodge 1543, International Association of Machinists, AFL-CIO, 1964

Nicolet Paper Company, and United Papermakers and Paperworkers and Local No. 62, 1963

Odanah Iron Company, and United Steelworkers of America, Local No. 2152, 1954-1955

Penick & Ford, Ltd., Incorporated, and American Federation of Grain Millers, Local 100, 1962

Philco Ford Corporation, Appliance Division, and International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers, AFL-CIO and its Local 919, circa 1968-1970

Phillips Petroleum Company and International Union of Operating Engineers (AFL) Local 893, 1948

Printing Trades Specialty Local No. 531, International Printing Pressmen and Assistants' Union of North America, AFL-CIO, and George Banta Company, Inc., circa 1967-1969

Radio Corporation of America, and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 1160, 1967-1968

St. Luke's Hospital, and Retail Clerks Union Local 1116, Hospital Section, AFL-CIO and Nancy L. Jackson, 1960

Schield Bantam Division of the Koehring Company, and International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Workers of America, 1967-1968

Sinclair Refining Company, East Chicago, Indiana and Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union Local 7-210, 1960-1961-(1969)

Snyder Mining Company, and United Steelworkers of America, Local Union No. 1442, 1960-1961

Solar Aircraft Company, and William Frank Moore, 1959

Square D Company, and Technical Engineers' Association, 1967

Sunday Lake Iron Company - Pickands Mather and Company, Operators, and United Steelworkers of America, circa 1954-1956

Theodore Hamm Brewing Company, St. Paul, Minnesota and Brewery Workers' Local Union No. 97, 1957

Transoceanic Terminal Corporation, and International Longshoremen's Association, Local No. 19, 1969

Trent Engineering Company, and Local 891, United Rubber, Cork, Linoleum, and Plastic Workers of America, 1970

United Automobile, Aircraft and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, UAW-AFL-CIO, and Hotpoint Company, Division of General Electric Company, 1957

United Automobile Workers of America, A.F. of L., Local 153, and Johnson & Sons Company, 1951

United Steelworkers of America and Oliver Mining Division, United States Steel Corporation, 1955

United Stone and Allied Products Workers of America, CIO, and Staso Milling Company, Kremlin, Wisconsin, circa 1951-1952

The Weather-Proof Company, Litchfield, Illinois, and Lodge No. 878, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, AFL-CIO, 1967

Wells Manufacturing Corporation, and International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, and its Local No. 646, AFL-CIO, 1966

Western Electric Company, Hawthorne Works, Inc., and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 1859, AFL-CIO, circa 1974

Series: Agreements

Elgin Division, Chicago Rawhide Manufacturing Company and Elgin Rawhide Employees' Association, Local 221, 1963, 1967, and 1970

Milwaukee Sign Contractor, and Local Union 770, Brotherhood of Painters and Allied Trades, AFL-CIO, 1973-1974

Milwaukee Spring Company, and International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, (UAW) and its Local No. 547, 1974-1977

Modern Machine Works, Inc., Local 646 of the International Union, Allied Industrial Workers of America, AFL-CIO, and International Union Allied Industrial Workers of America, AFL-CIO, circa 1974

Shopmen's Local Union No. 535 of the International Association of Bridge Structural and Ornamental Iron Workers (Affiliated with AFL-CIO), and [Company name left blank], 1968

Western Electric Company, Inc., Hawthorne Works, and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, AFL-CIO, Local Union 1859, 1971

Series: Publications

Labor Arbitration Awards, 1961-1974

Labor Relations Reporter, 1957-1973

Miscellany, circa 1956-1972

Part 2 (M2006-099): Additions, 1946-1980
Physical Description: 1.0 c.f. (3 archives boxes) 
Scope and Content Note: Additions, 1946-1980, documenting labor disputes, primarily in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Illinois, for which Graff acted as arbitrator. The records consist of six volumes of Arbitration Awards organized by subject, then alphabetically by company, with each record listing the parties, issues, background, any other pertinent information, and the decision.

Volume 1-2

Manufacturing A-Z

Volume 3

Automotive - Agricultural Machinery

Beverages - Brewing - Foods

Volume 4

Electrical Appliances and Manufacturing

Mining and Metals

Oils and Chemicals

Volume 5

Printing - Publishing - Advertising

Transportation

Woodworking

Volume 6

Public Service

Pulp and Paper