nded June 30, 1969 wards, Chairman

'Neill, Jr.

Tracy,

e Secretary Roadley,

Executive Secretary

I. The Railway Labor Act Today and Preceding Legislation:
A. The Railway Labor Act..

1. Introductory...

2. Underlying principles of the act.
(a) Written agreements..

(b) Collective bargaining.

3. Right and prohibitions.

4. Duties and responsibilties..

5. Types of disputes and methods of adjustment.
(a) Representation Disputes-elections..
(b) Mediation.....

(c) Emergency mediation.

(d) Voluntary arbitration..

(e) Investigation by Emergency Board.
(f) Disputes under agreement..

(g) Investigative disputes

B. Scope of the Railway Labor Act.

C. The Preceding Railway Labor Legislation
1. The act of 1888...

2. The Erdman Act of 1898..
3. The Newlands Act of 1913.
4. The Adamson Act of 1916...
5. Federal Control Act of 1918.
6. Transportation Act of 1920.
7. The Railway Labor Act of 1926.

8. The Bankruptcy and Emergency Transportation
Acts of 1933..

D. Amendments to the Railway Labor Act.

1. Public Law No. 442, 73d Congress, approved June

21, 1934....

2. Public Law No. 487, 74th Congress, approved April

10, 1936....

3. Public Law No. 764, 76th Congress, approved August

13, 1940....

4. Public Law No. 914, 81st Congress, approved Janu

ary 10, 1951..

B. Duties..

1. Mediation cases.

2. Problems of Mediation..
3. Representation disputes.
4. Problems of representation.
(a) Majority rule....

(b) Class or craft...

(c) Who is an employee...

(d) Change of representation under existing

agreements...

5. Interorganization and jurisdictional disputes..
6. Interpretation and application of agreements.
7. The National Railroad Adjustment Board.
8. Airline Adjustment Boards.

9. Special Boards of Adjustment-Railroads..
10. Public Law Boards...

11. Arbitration Boards....

12. Emergeny Boards-Section 10, Railway Labor Act..
13. Notices Regarding Contracts of Employment...

III. Application for services and rules of the National Mediation

Board:.....

A. Application for services.

1. Mediation....

2. Representation disputes..

3. Interpretation of mediation agreements
4. Appointment of PL Board Member..

B. Rules

IV. National Railway Labor Panel-Railroad and Airline Wage

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Appendix J. Application for Investigation of Representation

Disputes.

Appendix K. Request for PL Board Member.
Appendix L. Notice in Re Railway Labor Act, Form MB-1....
Notice to Employees of Air Carriers, Form MB-6...
Notice in Re Railway Labor Act, Form N.M.B. 7 . . .