Collection #

M0920

 

 

Sam M. Griffith
collection, 1946–1987

 

Collection Information

Biographical Sketch

Scope and Content Note

Contents

Cataloging Information

 

 

 

Processed by

Kurt Jung
July 25, 2007

Manuscript and Visual Collections Department
William Henry Smith Memorial Library
Indiana Historical Society
450 West Ohio Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202-3269

www.indianahistory.org

 

COLLECTION INFORMATION

VOLUME OF
COLLECTION:

4 document cases

COLLECTION
DATES:

1946–1987

PROVENANCE:

Julia Griffith, 3782 N. Mexico Rd.  Mexico, Indiana, 25 July 2003

RESTRICTIONS:

None

COPYRIGHT:

 

REPRODUCTION
RIGHTS:

Permission to reproduce or publish material in this collection must be obtained from the Indiana Historical Society.

ALTERNATE
FORMATS:

 

RELATED
HOLDINGS:

 

ACCESSION
NUMBER:

2003.0491

NOTES:

 

BIOGRAPHiCAL SKETCH

Sam M. Griffith was the Local Chairman of the United Transportation Union Enginemen of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad.  During his service in this post, he received communication from UTU counterparts in Washington D.C. regarding various labor disputes, financial settlements, and merger activities regarding railroads pertinent to his area in Lake County, Indiana.  He lived in Hammond, Indiana in Lake County.

Sources: Materials in the Collection

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

This collection holds materials pertaining to railroad financial activities, mergers, and related correspondence that were filed with or produced by the Interstate Commerce Commission.  Many of the records date from the late 1970’s and early 1980’s.  Finance dockets deal mostly with financial negotiations and agreements between various corporate bodies of either railroad company interests or railroad labor interests.  The Legal claims deal with various legal disputes, mostly between railroad companies and railroad labor, but some instances have disputes between two railroad companies.  Railroads appearing in this collection are: CSX, Seaboard Coastline, Chesapeake & Ohio, Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company, and the Southern Railway Company.

 

 

CONTENTS

CONTENTS

CONTAINER

Files (n.d.)

Box 1, Folder 1

Engineer’s Time Books 1946–1962, Rate Table 1975

Box 1, Folder 2

Correspondence 1975

Box 1, Folder 3

Correspondence 1976

Box 1, Folder 4

Correspondence 1977

Box 1, Folder 5

Correspondence 1978

Box 1, Folder 6

Correspondence 1979

Box 1, Folder 7

Correspondence 1980

Box 1, Folder 8

Correspondence 1981

Box 1, Folder 9

Correspondence 1982

Box 1, Folder 10

Correspondence 1984

Box 1, Folder 11

Correspondence 1986

Box 1, Folder 12

Chicago Terminal Project: Completion Report 1976

Box 1, Folder 13

United Transportation Union Statements to Interstate Commerce Commission ca. 1970’s

Box 1, Folder 14

I.C. & Court Proceedings & Materials pertaining to Mergers 1970’s & 1980’s

Box 1, Folder 15

Verified Statements on labor Protection Regarding S.C.L. & C.O. Merger 1979

Box 1, Folder 16

SCL-CO Merger Petition July 24, 1979

Box 1, Folder 17

Southern Railway Company: Proposed Operating Plan August 17, 1979

Box 1, Folder 18

I.C.C. copies: Grand Trunk materials 1977–1980

Box 1, Folder 19

Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company, Environmental Impact Statements 1977 & 1978

Box 2, Folder 1

Executive Summary of Draft Environmental Impact Statement 1979

Box 2, Folder 2

Environmental Impact Statement 1979

Box 2, Folder 3

Final Environmental Impact Statement 1980

Box 2, Folder 4

Finance Docket 1971

Box 2, Folder 5

Finance Dockets 1975

Box 2, Folder 6

Finance Dockets 1976

Box 2, Folder 7

Finance Dockets 1977

Box 2, Folder 8

Finance Dockets 1978

Box 2, Folder 9

CSX & Southern Finance Dockets 1979

Box 3, Folder 1

Finance Dockets 1979

Box 3, Folder 2

Finance Dockets 1979

Box 3, Folder 3

CSX correspondence & Finance Dockets 1980

Box 3, Folder 4

Finance Dockets 1980

Box 3, Folder 5

Finance Dockets 1981

Box 3, Folder 6

Finance Dockets 1982

Box 3, Folder 7

Finance Dockets 1987

Box 3, Folder 8

Legal Claims 1972

Box 4, Folder 1

Legal Claims 1975

Box 4, Folder 2

Southern court action against the L.N. 1979

Box 4, Folder 3

Legal Claims 1979

Box 4, Folder 4

Legal Claims 1980

Box 4, Folder 5

Legal Claims 1981

Box 4, Folder 6

Legal Claims 1982

Box 4, Folder 7

Legal Claims 1983

Box 4, Folder 8

Legal Claims 1984

Box 4, Folder 9

Legal Claims 1986

Box 4, Folder 10

CATALOGING INFORMATION

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