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Sylvester Garrett Labor Collection
Sylvester Garrett worked for over fifty years as a labor lawyer, government
official and labor arbitrator. Garrett played a leading role in the development of
expeditial arbitration procedures in both the steel industry and postal service. He was
elected to membership in the National Academy of Arbitrators in 1951 and served as
president of the Academy in 1963. Garrett has held numerous public and private positions
throughout his career, including attorney for the National Labor Relations Board (1938-41)
and as chairman of U.S. Steel-United Steel Workers of America Board of Arbitrators
(1979-1989).
The Garrett Collection contains eight thousand arbitration case fileds as well as books,
indexes, speeches, memorabilia, personal and professional correspondence, lecture notes
and scrapbooks, All of this material dates from 1930 through 1989.
(95 Linear Feet)
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