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Guide to the Transport Workers Union of America Records, 1911-2007

Title: Guide to the Transport Workers Union of America Records, 1911-2007

The Transport Workers Union of America, founded in 1934 and led until 1966 by charismatic Irish-American radical Mike Quill, initially organized subway workers and bus drivers in the New York City area. Eventually the union chartered locals in cities and towns across the country, and it branched out to include taxi drivers, railway employees, airline workers and utility workers among its members. This collection is comprised of administrative records of the Transport Workers Union of America. The Michael J. (Mike) Quill files document the trade-union and political activity of Quill, who served as TWU president from 1935 to 1966. The collection also contains records of Quill's three successful campaigns for the New York City Council (on the American Labor Party ticket and as an independent) and his work as a councilman. Other series contain files of Quill's successor, Matthew Guinan, other TWU officers and staff, TWU divisions, and national conventions. Included are incoming and outgoing correspondence, financial records, reports, speeches, bargaining files, arbitration and mediation decisions, publicity materials and clippings.

ArchivalResource: 153 Linear Feet (153 boxes), 5 VHS cassettes, 10 8mm open reel films, 3 16mm open reel films, 1 35mm open reel film, 12 videodiscs (dvd), 5 archived websites.

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Transport Workers Union of America. Local 553. Letter, [ca. 1989].

Title: Letter, [ca. 1989].

Letter with flier from Miami Springs, Florida flight attendants local union urging boycott of Continental Airlines during the Eastern Airlines strike, which began in 1989. Flier criticizes Frank Lorenzo, president, and the owners of both airlines.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

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Transport Workers Union of America, Local 100: Joseph Gayol Files, 1962-1980

Title: Transport Workers Union of America, Local 100: Joseph Gayol Files 1962-1980

The collection contains materials collected by Joseph Gayol, an activist in rank and file movements in the Transport Workers Union of America, Local 100. The collection is comprised largely of campaign flyers and circulars distributed to Local 100 members by dissident rank and file candidates. Also included are grievance forms, correspondence, contracts and agreements.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 linear feet; (1 box)

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Shirley Quill Transport Workers Union of America Photographs, Bulk, 1941-1966, 1913-1997

Title: Shirley Quill Transport Workers Union of America Photographs Bulk, 1941-1966 1913-1997

Shirley Garry Quill (1915 - 1991) and Michael J. (Mike) Quill (1905 - 1966), President of the Transit Workers Union (TWU) from 1935 to 1966, met in 1943 when she helped him campaign for New York City Council. After the election, Shirley Garry served as Mike Quill’s legislative secretary. Their mutual commitment to union organizing and progressive politics led to a friendship and a long relationship; they married in 1966. The collection focuses on the history of the TWU and Mike Quill, although it also includes Quill family portraits and snapshots and images of early TWU and CIO leadership and conventions. Highlights include a group portrait of the CIO leadership in 1940 (Joe Curran, Quill, Phillip Murray and John L. Lewis); the Unity Slate Victory party; Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking at the Ghandi Society Luncheon; and Mike Quill's last press conference and his memorial service.

ArchivalResource: 1.25 linear feet; in 3 manuscript boxes

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Guide to the Transport Workers Union of America Records, 1911-2007

Title: Guide to the Transport Workers Union of America Records, 1911-2007

The Transport Workers Union of America, founded in 1934 and led until 1966 by charismatic Irish-American radical Mike Quill, initially organized subway workers and bus drivers in the New York City area. Eventually the union chartered locals in cities and towns across the country, and it branched out to include taxi drivers, railway employees, airline workers and utility workers among its members. This collection is comprised of administrative records of the Transport Workers Union of America. The Michael J. (Mike) Quill files document the trade-union and political activity of Quill, who served as TWU president from 1935 to 1966. The collection also contains records of Quill's three successful campaigns for the New York City Council (on the American Labor Party ticket and as an independent) and his work as a councilman. Other series contain files of Quill's successor, Matthew Guinan, other TWU officers and staff, TWU divisions, and national conventions. Included are incoming and outgoing correspondence, financial records, reports, speeches, bargaining files, arbitration and mediation decisions, publicity materials and clippings.

ArchivalResource: 153 Linear Feet (153 boxes), 5 VHS cassettes, 10 8mm open reel films, 3 16mm open reel films, 1 35mm open reel film, 12 videodiscs (dvd), 5 archived websites.

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Transport Workers Union of America, Local 100: Naomi Allen Files, undated

Title: Transport Workers Union of America, Local 100: Naomi Allen Files undated

ArchivalResource: 4.0 linear feet; (4 boxes)

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Transport Workers Union of America Printed Ephemera Collection, 1920-2009

Title: Transport Workers Union of America Printed Ephemera Collection 1920-2009

The Transport Workers Union of America Printed Ephemera Collection is an artificial collection, collected and assembled by the Tamiment Library over the course of several decades. The collection consists of agreements, contracts and constitutions, as well as printed material such as fliers, leaflets, newspaper clippings, pamphlets and other publications. The collection offers a general feel for the types of printed matter put out by the Union as well as a brief introduction to and history of the Union and some of it's locals, particularly Local 100, the union for employees of the Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA).

ArchivalResource: 6.0 linear feet; (6 boxes)

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Guide to the Transport Workers Union of America Records, 1911-2007

Title: Guide to the Transport Workers Union of America Records, 1911-2007

The Transport Workers Union of America, founded in 1934 and led until 1966 by charismatic Irish-American radical Mike Quill, initially organized subway workers and bus drivers in the New York City area. Eventually the union chartered locals in cities and towns across the country, and it branched out to include taxi drivers, railway employees, airline workers and utility workers among its members. This collection is comprised of administrative records of the Transport Workers Union of America. The Michael J. (Mike) Quill files document the trade-union and political activity of Quill, who served as TWU president from 1935 to 1966. The collection also contains records of Quill's three successful campaigns for the New York City Council (on the American Labor Party ticket and as an independent) and his work as a councilman. Other series contain files of Quill's successor, Matthew Guinan, other TWU officers and staff, TWU divisions, and national conventions. Included are incoming and outgoing correspondence, financial records, reports, speeches, bargaining files, arbitration and mediation decisions, publicity materials and clippings.

ArchivalResource: 153 Linear Feet (153 boxes), 5 VHS cassettes, 10 8mm open reel films, 3 16mm open reel films, 1 35mm open reel film, 12 videodiscs (dvd), 5 archived websites.

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Ruth Abramowitz Photographs, 1952-1957

Title: Ruth Abramowitz Photographs 1952-1957

Ruth Abramowitz (1924-2001) was secretary of Local 101, Utility Division of the Transport Workers Union. The collection contains thirty-five photographs depicting events in which Abramowitz took part in the 1950s. Many represent social welfare campaigns undertaken in cooperation with the Greater New York Fund. There are also photographs depicting events of New York City CIO's Community Services Committee, a labor campaign to control cancer in Brooklyn, and different events held in Atlantic City, at the United Nations, and at Sarah Lawrence College.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 linear feet; in 1 folder.

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Guide to the Transport Workers Union of America Records, 1911-2007

Title: Guide to the Transport Workers Union of America Records, 1911-2007

The Transport Workers Union of America, founded in 1934 and led until 1966 by charismatic Irish-American radical Mike Quill, initially organized subway workers and bus drivers in the New York City area. Eventually the union chartered locals in cities and towns across the country, and it branched out to include taxi drivers, railway employees, airline workers and utility workers among its members. This collection is comprised of administrative records of the Transport Workers Union of America. The Michael J. (Mike) Quill files document the trade-union and political activity of Quill, who served as TWU president from 1935 to 1966. The collection also contains records of Quill's three successful campaigns for the New York City Council (on the American Labor Party ticket and as an independent) and his work as a councilman. Other series contain files of Quill's successor, Matthew Guinan, other TWU officers and staff, TWU divisions, and national conventions. Included are incoming and outgoing correspondence, financial records, reports, speeches, bargaining files, arbitration and mediation decisions, publicity materials and clippings.

ArchivalResource: 153 Linear Feet (153 boxes), 5 VHS cassettes, 10 8mm open reel films, 3 16mm open reel films, 1 35mm open reel film, 12 videodiscs (dvd), 5 archived websites.

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Carl Reeve Papers, c. 1910s-2000s [bulk 1970s-1980s]

Title: Carl Reeve Papers c. 1910s-2000s [bulk 1970s-1980s]

ArchivalResource: 0.5 linear feet; (1 box)

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Guide to Sam Reiss 1975 Retrospective Exhibit, 1948-1975

Title: Guide to Sam Reiss 1975 Retrospective Exhibit, 1948-1975

Samuel Reiss was among the most prominent and prolific photographers of the labor movement in New York City from the late 1940s until his death in 1975. During the three decades that Reiss earned a living with his camera, he documented a changing work force in a changing city, building a reputation as "Labor's photographer." Week by week, throughout his career, Reiss made photographs that documented New York's labor movement during its most active, influential, and progressive years. The materials in the collection document and include images from a 1975 retrospective exhibit of Reiss' work. These include press releases, promotional materials, and correspondence relating to the exhibit, 140 numbered slides that comprised the slideshow displayed as part of the exhibit, 138 of the 140 black and white captioned prints (mostly 8 x 10) on 11" x 14" cardboard mounts that were photographed to create the matching slides, and a small number of additional mounted prints that were not included in the slideshow.

ArchivalResource: 4 Linear Feet in one manuscript box and 7 oversize boxes

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Transport Workers Union of America. Local 2001. Transport Workers Union of America Local 2001. Files.

Title: Transport Workers Union of America Local 2001. Files.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear feet.

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Transport Workers Union of America: Locals Records, Bulk, 1940-1970, 1931-2008

Title: Transport Workers Union of America: Locals Records Bulk, 1940-1970 1931-2008

The Transport Workers Union of America, founded in 1934 and led until 1966 by charismatic Irish-American radical Mike Quill, initially organized subway workers and bus drivers in the New York City area. Eventually the union chartered locals in cities and towns across the country, and it branched out to include taxi drivers, railway employees, airline workers and utility workers among its members. This collection documents the individual local unions making up the TWUA; includes minutes, correspondence, publicity material, contracts and financial records. NOTE: This collection is housed offsite and advance notice is required for use.

ArchivalResource: 120.5 linear feet; (121 boxes)

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Forge, Maurice, 1902-1990. Papers, 1936-1986. 1940-1959 (bulk).

Title: Papers, 1936-1986. 1940-1959 (bulk).

The bulk of the Collection covers the period of the 1940s and 50s, and is concerned with Forge's union organizing activity and his political conflicts with TWU officials. Included are correspondence, copies of TWU Executive Board minutes, transcripts of hearings, leaflets, reports on meetings related to the Air Transport Division, and clippings dealing with various TWU leaders, with Communism and the TWU, and with TWU Local 252. There is one file of membership cards and other ephemera and one file of photocopies of articles and letters to the editor written by Forge, 1974-1986. Several photographs were transferred to the Wagner Archives Non-print Collections.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear foot.

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Max M. Kampelman Research Files on Communist Influence in the Labor Movement, 1941-1951

Title: Max M. Kampelman Research Files on Communist Influence in the Labor Movement 1941-1951

Max M. Kampelman, lawyer, diplomat, and educator, wrote (1957). Contains clippings, reports, typescripts and notes on Communist influence in the labor movement, with emphasis on New York State, and includes a typescript, (45 pp.) The Communist Party vs. The C.I.O: A Study in Power Politics Sidney Hillman and the Communists..

ArchivalResource: 0.25 linear feet; (1 box)

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Transport Workers Union of America Printed Ephemera Collection, 1920-2009

Title: Transport Workers Union of America Printed Ephemera Collection 1920-2009

The Transport Workers Union of America Printed Ephemera Collection is an artificial collection, collected and assembled by the Tamiment Library over the course of several decades. The collection consists of agreements, contracts and constitutions, as well as printed material such as fliers, leaflets, newspaper clippings, pamphlets and other publications. The collection offers a general feel for the types of printed matter put out by the Union as well as a brief introduction to and history of the Union and some of it's locals, particularly Local 100, the union for employees of the Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA).

ArchivalResource: 6.0 linear feet; (6 boxes)

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Maurice Forge Papers, Bulk, 1947-1950, 1936-1986, (Bulk 1947-1950)

Title: Maurice Forge Papers Bulk, 1947-1950 1936-1986, (Bulk 1947-1950)

Maurice Forge (1902-1990) was a New York bus driver who became an organizer, news editor, and ultimately a vice president of the Transport Workers Union (TWU). In the late 1930s, Forge began organizing the TWU’s Airline Transport Division (ATD). A decade later, a union-wide effort to sever TWU ties with the Communist Party resulted in Forge’s expulsion from the TWU. The Maurice Forge Papers include materials from Forge’s TWU career, including union publicity materials, official correspondence, and transcripts of Forge’s TWU hearing and of the government deportation hearing of TWU official John Santo.

ArchivalResource: 1.0 linear feet; (1 box)

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Guide to the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives Moving Images Collection, 1920-1969

Title: Guide to the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives Moving Images Collection, 1920-1969

The Tamiment/Wagner Moving Images Collection represents the core motion picture film collection of the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives. It includes the film archives of the Transport Workers Union of America, a labor union founded in 1934 to organize subway workers and bus drivers in the New York City area that later included taxi drivers, railway employees, airline workers and utility workers in locals across the country; films and film footage from District 65/UAW , another labor union formed in New York City (in 1933) that organized warehouse workers, later expanding to include workers from the retail and manufacturing sectors, clerical personnel, salesclerks, writers, editors, technicians, and lawyers, include large numbers of women; a complete film, Nos Maisons d'Enfants, from the Jewish Labor Committee, a New York-based umbrella group of Jewish or Jewish-led trade unions and fraternal organizations, founded in 1934 to organize anti-Nazi and anti-fascist activity and to provide assistance to European Jews and others persecuted by these movements; footage shot by still photographer John Albok (1894-1982), known for his images of children and New York City street life during the Depression, who also documented organized labor and left-radical political life in New York City; and early footage of Camp Tamiment, a summer resort for socialists, in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania, that opened in 1921. The remainder of the materials in the Collection come from various other labor and radical organizations. Together, they comprise approximately 40 hours of black and white and color 16mm motion picture film (and one 35mm film) which have been transferred to video for research use. They document activities and history of the labor movement and radical left or progressive organizations, mostly in New York City (although Philadelphia, Barcelona, Geneva, and a few locations in France are also represented. Most were produced by or for labor, left or progressive organizations and associated individuals in the United States. The Collection includes a dozen documentary films and a similar number each of television programs and filmed press conferences, but the largest proportion of materials by far consists of outtakes and edited sequences from these productions; a small amount of stock footage shot, acquired for, or associated with, these productions and unedited footage not associated with them.

ArchivalResource: 56 videocassettes

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