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for the use of the Board and the Committee during the investigation. Included are records of the Office of the General Counsel, comprising letters sent about the investigation, general files containing data and reports prepared for the investigation, and related correspondence, 1939-41; questionnaires containing information about union activities and membership of Board personnel and transcripts of Smith Committee hearings on exhibits received into evidence, 1940; minutes of NLRB executive meetings, 1936-39; testimonies concerning amendments to the Wagner Act presented before hearings of the Senate Committee on Education and Labor, 1939; news clippings about the Wagner Act and the NLRB, 1937-39; and lists of and documents from NLRB files taken by the Smith Committee, correspondence with the Attorney General's Committee on Administrative Procedures, and the latter Committee's monograph on the NLRB, 1939-40. Records of the Assistant General Counsel, consisting of regional directors' reports about the effects of NLRB decisions on labor relations, excerpts from speeches and articles prepared as exhibits, and lists of and receipts for NLRB case files and other records that were sent to the Smith Committee, 1939-40; exhibits prepared for the NLRB Chairman's testimony before the Smith Committee, 1940; and miscellaneous transcripts of Smith Committee proceedings, news clippings, and information regarding cases in litigation, 1934-40. Records of attorneys

assisting the General Counsel consist of records that concern Board policies, operations, and personnel, and cases prepared for Board members testifying before the Smith Committee. There are also reports, statistical charts, and memorandums of the Technical Service Division's chief economist and the Case Statistics Section about Board cases. SPECIFIC RESTRICTIONS

I. Records: All documents in the Wag. ner Act case files and the TaftHartley Act case files other than formal documents that are a matter of official record. Restrictions: No one may examine these records or be given information from them or copies of them except by permission of the National Labor Relations Board under procedure specified in section 102.117 (c) of the Board's rules and regulations (32 Fed. Reg. 9551). Specified by: National Labor Rela

tions Board.

II. Records: Records of the National

Labor Relations Board relating to the operations of the House of Representatives Special Committee To Investigate the National Labor Relations Board (the Smith Committee). Restrictions: No one may examine

these records or be given information from them or copies of them except by permission of the National Labor Relations Board. Specified by: National Labor Relations Board.

RECORDS OF THE NATIONAL MEDIATION BOARD (RECORD GROUP 13)

The National Mediation Board was created by the amended Railway Labor Act of June 21, 1934, to mediate railroad labor disputes. This function evolved

from an act of October 1, 1888, that authorized the President to establish temporary commissions to investigate and report on railroad labor controver

sies and provided for voluntary arbitration of disputes between carriers engaged in interstate commerce and their employees. In 1894 the President appointed the U.S. Strike Commission to investigate the Pullman strike. Under the Erdman Act of June 1, 1898, responsibility for mediation was assigned jointly to the Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Commissioner of Labor, who were known in their mediatory capacity as the Board of Arbitration, Interstate Commerce Controversies. The mediatory function was more specifically defined in the Newlands Act of July 15, 1913, which created the U.S. Board of Mediation and Conciliation. This Board was not officially abolished until 1926, but most of its jurisdiction was transferred in 1918 to the U.S. Railroad Administration and was assumed by the Railroad Labor Board in 1920. The Railroad Labor Board-representing management,

labor, and the public-was created by the Transportation Act of February 28, 1920. It was superseded, under the terms of the Railway Labor Act of May 20, 1926, by the Board of Mediation, which was superseded by the present National Mediation Board.

The jurisdiction and functions of the National Mediation Board were expanded beyond those of its predecessors to cover air as well as rail carriers and to include the settlement of collective-bargaining representation disputes. The National Railroad Adjustment Boardwhich for the most part operates independently from the National Mediation Board in adjudicating grievances and disputes related to the interpretation and application of collective-bargaining agreements-was also created by the 1934 act.

From 1920 to 1934 secondary adjustment boards, permitted by law but formed by agreements between single carriers or groups of carriers and their

employees, were created to handle minor grievances.

Since 1926 the President has appointed, under section 10 of the Railway Labor Act, emergency boards to investigate and make recommendations for the settlement of disputes, unresolved by mediation, that threatened serious interruption of interstate commerce through imminent strike action. To supplement section 10 procedures during the war period, the National Railway Labor Panel was created by an Executive order of May 22, 1942; from it railroad emergency boards were selected to investigate and recommend settlements to the President. In 1943 the Panel was given the additional responsibility of administering rail and airline wage and salary stabilization under the wartime economic stabilization program. The Panel was terminated by an Executive order of August 11, 1947.

There are 1,261 cubic feet of records dated between 1887 and 1962 in this record group.

RECORDS OF PREDECESSOR BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS. 1887-1934. 810 lin. ft.

Included are records of the U.S. Strike Commission, consisting of letters sent by Carroll D. Wright, Commissioner of Labor and Chairman of the Commission, 1894-96.

The Board of Arbitration, Interstate Commerce Controversies, consisting of case files (in WNRC), 1899 and 190713, that contain correspondence regarding disputes and the selection of arbitrators, transcripts of testimony, hearing exhibits and briefs, mediators' notes and reports, awards, and press clippings; correspondence about railroad labor disputes not acted on by the Board, 190813; an index of qualified arbitrators; correspondence of Commissioner of Labor Charles P. Neill, concerning his work as a mediator, legislation regarding arbitration of railroad labor disputes, and sta

tistical data about railroad employment, wages, and labor disputes, 1909-13; railroad wage schedules, 1911-12; and press clippings and other reference material relating to railroad labor disputes and legislation, 1907-13.

The U.S. Board of Mediation and Conciliation, including decisions, interpretations, and correspondence of the Chairman, Judge Martin A. Knapp, some of which relate to cases under the Erdman Act, 1912-18. Files of Judge William L. Chambers, a Board Commissioner, relating to labor disputes and legislation affecting the Board and railroad labor, 1913-20; records concerning his work as an arbitrator, 1910-18; and speeches and working papers, 1887-1920. Records of the Office of the Secretary, consisting of general files documenting policies and operations, 1913-20, with related indexes; case files, 1913-21, and related indexes (in WNRC); and records concerning the 8-hour-day controversy in 1916, the Adamson Act, and other legislation affecting railroads and railroad labor. Records of the disbursing officer, consisting of files relating to budget estimates and disbursements, accounts, correspondence, and excerpts from Board minutes concerning organizational and personnel matters, 1913-20.

The Railroad Labor Board, 1920-26, including minutes of executive sessions, with related indexes; files of Board members; the central files of the Board maintained in the Office of the Secretary and documenting activities and functions of the Board, its committees, and administrative units; records of the Office of the Assistant Secretary, including files on administrative and fiscal matters and Board decisions in several series, with supporting materials and indexes; records of the Docket Department, comprising the Board's cases (in WNRC), with supporting files of correspondence, exhibits, related indexes (in WNRC), and registers; and records of the Statistical Department, consisting of adminis

trative files and statistical reports, charts, and tables, with related working papers, correspondence, questionnaires, and reference material regarding studies and surveys of wages, working rules and conditions, cost of living, changes in rates of pay and in earnings and purchasing power of railroad workers, railroad revenues and expenses, effects of Board decisions, and the voting record of Board members.

The Board of Mediation, 1926-34,
including minutes of executive sessions,
correspondence of the Chairman, and
correspondence of Board member Oscar
B. Colquitt and records relating to cases
in which he acted as mediator, 1930-34.
Records of the Office of the Secretary,
consisting of general and correspond-
ence files relating to the activities;
administration; and wage, representa-
tion, grievance, and miscellaneous cases
(in WNRC) of the Board, with support-
ing files of reports, exhibits, transcripts
of proceedings, awards, opinions, corre-
spondence, indexes, and registers.
Records of the Division of Administra-
tion, consisting of press digests and files
concerning organizational, personnel,
and fiscal matters. Records of Technical
Divisions A, B, and C, which handled
disputes involving clerical, yard and
maintenance, and operating personnel,
respectively, including case files and
digests, studies, records of staff mem-
bers, correspondence, and statistical
data on cases handled by the Board.

RECORDS OF THE NATIONAL
MEDIATION BOARD. 1934-60.
679 lin. ft. (in WNRC).

Mediation ("A" cases) and arbitration case files, 1934-60, concerning disputes between rail, express, and air carriers and employees on pay rates, working conditions, and rules; representation case files ("R" cases), 1934-59, regarding disputes about bargaining representatives; and emergency board case files, 1934-60, relating to disputes that could

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RECORDS OF THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (RECORD GROUP 307)

The National Science Foundation was established by an act of May 10, 1950, to promote basic research and education in the sciences and the most effective use of scientific manpower by initiating and supporting research, coordinating programs and improving techniques for the dissemination of scientific information, evaluating and coordinating governmental and nongovernmental scientific research programs, and maintaining a clearinghouse for scientific and technical personnel information.

There are 2 cubic feet of records dated

between 1956 and 1958 in this record group.

RECORDS. 1956-58. 2 lin. ft.

Records of the President's Committee on Scientists and Engineers, established by the President April 3, 1956, and terminated December 31, 1958, consist of summaries of meetings about the training, use, and availability of scientific personnel, 1956-57; press releases, including copies of speeches, 1956-58; and publications issued by the Foundation and private sources about training and using scientific personnel, 1956-58.

RECORDS OF THE PANAMA CANAL
(RECORD GROUP 185)

The Panama Canal-the name of the
organization that maintained and operat-
ed the canal, including government of
the Canal Zone from 1914 to 1950-had
its beginning in 1895 in the Nicaragua
Canal Board appointed by the President
to study the feasibility of completing the
Nicaragua Ship Canal begun by the
Maritime Canal Co. of Nicaragua. From
1897 to 1899 the Nicaragua Canal Com-
mission made further studies. On
March 3, 1899, Congress authorized the
President to investigate the Panamanian
as well as the Nicaraguan route for a
canal. The first Isthmian Canal Commis-
sion, appointed June 10, 1899, by Presi-
dent McKinley, reported in favor of the
Panama route and recommended the
purchase of the property of the French
Compagnie Nouvelle du Canal de Pana-
ma, which had been organized in 1894
and had taken over the property of the
earlier Compagnie Universelle du Canal
Interoceanique, headed by Ferdinand de
Lesseps. An act of June 28, 1902,
authorized the purchase of the property
and records of the French company fol-
lowing the ratification of a treaty with
Panama and created a second Isthmian
Canal Commission. Under the supervi-
sion of the Secretary of War, the Com-
mission directed construction work and
governed the Canal Zone. After several
reorganizations the Commission was
abolished in 1914, and its functions and
records were transferred to the perma-
nent organization, the Panama Canal. An
act of September 26, 1950, changed the
name of the organization to the Canal
Zone Government and limited its func-
tions to maintaining civil government.
Operation and maintenance of the canal
was assigned to the Panama Canal Com-
pany, which replaced the Panama Rail-
road Company organized in 1849 to con-
struct and operate a railroad across the
isthmus.

There are 446 cubic feet of records (in WNRC except for nontextual records) dated between 1849 and 1957 in this record group.

RECORDS. 1849-1938. 396 lin. ft.

There are general records of the two French companies, 1879-1904; a few records of the Nicaragua Canal Board, 1895; reports, correspondence, press clippings, estimates, field notes of surveys, and hydrographic and meteorologic records of the Nicaragua Canal Commission, 1897-99, and the Washington office, and the Nicaragua, Panama, and Darien routes of the first Isthmian Canal Commission, 1899-1902; correspondence and periodic narrative and statistical reports of the second Isthmian Canal Commission, 1904-14; and minutes and legal and fiscal documents of the Panama Railroad Company, 1849

1938.

CARTOGRAPHIC AND
AUDIOVISUAL RECORDS.
1881-1957. 19,242 items.

Cartographic records (9,215 items) consist of maps, plans, cross sections, and profiles prepared during preliminary surveys of proposed sea-level routes in Nicaragua and Panama; detailed working maps and plans relating to the excavation and construction of the Panama Canal, 1881-1913; and maps of the Canal Zone, 1921-57.

Photographs (10,027 items) primarily document the construction, operation, and history of the canal, 1881-1940.

See Richard W. Giroux, comp., and Garry D. Ryan, rev., Preliminary Inventory of the Textual Records of the Panama Canal, PI 153 (1963); and James B. Rhoads, comp., Preliminary Inventory of the Cartographic Records of the Panama Canal, PI 91 (1956).

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