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Stepan, Reuben, 1902-. Oral history interview with Stepan Reuben in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1977 Nov. 10 [microform] / conducted by Paul Kelso.

Title: Oral history interview with Stepan Reuben in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1977 Nov. 10 [microform] / conducted by Paul Kelso.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 35 leaves ; 28 cm.

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Osman, Arthur,. Oral history interview with Arthur Osman, 1968.

Title: Oral history interview with Arthur Osman, 1968.

From 1968-1970, Herbert Hill, Roberta McBride and Norman McRae conducted oral history interviews with 32 African-Americans who played a role in trade-unionism in the United States. Major subjects covered were: Afro-American employment, civil rights organizations, trade-unions and organizing, UAW black caucus, discrimination, race relations, segregation, strikes and lockouts, and wages.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 70 leaves ; 29 cm.

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AFL-CIO Internal Disputes Plan Decisions of the Impartial Umpire, 1964-1976.

Title: AFL-CIO Internal Disputes Plan Decisions of the Impartial Umpire, 1964-1976.

This is a collection of AFL-CIO Internal Disputes with decisions of the Impartial Umpire.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear ft.

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Guide to the Daniel Bell Research Files on U.S. Communism, Socialism, and the Labor Movement, 1886-1980

Title: Guide to the Daniel Bell Research Files on U.S. Communism, Socialism, and the Labor Movement, 1886-1980

Sociologist Daniel Bell (1919-2011) was a writer and teacher of the history of the American left and of American Labor. He was managing editor of the <i>New Leader</i> in the 1940s, labor editor of Fortune from 1948 to 1958 and is the author of several books and monographs. The papers represent materials gathered by Bell for his writing and research. They include correspondence, clippings, minutes, pamphlets, research notes, articles, reports, congressional testimony and interviews.

ArchivalResource: 27.75 Linear Feet in 55 manuscript boxes and 1 shared box.

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Levinson, Marc R. Marc R. Levinson papers, 1975-1979.

Title: Marc R. Levinson papers, 1975-1979.

The collection consists of papers of Marc R. Levinson from 1975-1979. The AFSCME Local 1644/City of Atlanta series includes correspondence, news clippings, news releases, and printed materials relating to a strike by Local 1644 (Atlanta, Ga.) of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) against the City of Atlanta in 1977. The Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union of America/J.P. Stevens Company series contains legal documents, news releases, and printed materials pertaining to the union's 1976-1978 recognition campaign against the J.P. Stevens Company. The Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union/Cagle series contains materials relating to the union's 1976 efforts to organize Cagle, a chicken processing plant in Camilla, Georgia. The collection also includes two audio cassette tapes of interviews Levinson made with Jerry Wurf, AFSCME president and Albert Shanker, president of the American Federation of Teachers. The interviews discuss Atlanta labor relations, public employee unionism, and union political coalitions.

ArchivalResource: .25 linear ft.

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Clark, Sam, 1914-. Oral history interview with Sam Clark and Wally Post in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1977 Nov. 22 [microform] / conducted by Paul Kelso.

Title: Oral history interview with Sam Clark and Wally Post in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1977 Nov. 22 [microform] / conducted by Paul Kelso.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 69 leaves ; 28 cm.

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Wolfson, Theresa, 1897-1972. Series 4. Manuscripts and research materials, ca. 1925-ca. 1960.

Title: Series 4. Manuscripts and research materials, ca. 1925-ca. 1960.

Drafts and manuscripts of books and articles by Wolfson and her colleagues dealing with the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, American labor, unemployment, Jewish women in the American labor movement, the National Recovery Administration, economic security, socialism, Soviet unemployment insurance, the Trade Union Educational League, wages, women, workers' health, industrial conflict, industrial unionism, the Rifton Strike, and Samuel Gompers. Also includes project outline, manuscript chapter drafts, and interview notes for a project by Wolfson (1947-1948) of interviewing labor leaders for "Philosophy and Labor". The project involved interviewing 100 individuals in the American Federation of Labor (A.F.of L.), the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), and independent unions to explore matters of concern to organized labor. Leaders from the following unions were interviewed: A.F.of L. Central Labor Council, United Automobile Workers, Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, International Longshoremen's Union, International Association of Machinists, Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen, Michigan Workers' Education Service, Oil Workers' International Union, United Packinghouse Workers of America, International Typographical Union, California State Council of Retail Clerks, Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, United Rubber Workers, Bay District Joint Council of Building Service Employees, San Francisco Labor Council, Labor Research Bureau and California State Federation of Labor, United Steelworkers of America, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, and Textile Workers' Union of North America.

ArchivalResource: 3.2 linear ft.

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Lens, Sidney. Sidney Lens papers, 1910-1986.

Title: Sidney Lens papers, 1910-1986.

Correspondence, newspaper clippings, articles, newsletters, notes, manuscripts of Lens' major books, financial records, and sound recordings from his career as a Chicago labor organizer, peace activist, political candidate, lecturer, and writer. Includes materials from the Revolutionary Workers' League; Local 329 of United Service Employees Union; National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam; and other groups. Also includes Lens' research notes, travel notes, and his FBI files (obtained through FOIA request in 1979).

ArchivalResource: 55 sound cassettes.

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United States. Dept. of Labor. United States. Dept. of Labor. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Collective Bargaining Agreements, 1958-1975.

Title: United States. Dept. of Labor. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Collective Bargaining Agreements, 1958-1975.

ArchivalResource: 16 linear ft.

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Department Store and Office Workers' Organizing Collection, Bulk, 1930-1941, 1916-1947, (Bulk 1930-1941)

Title: Department Store and Office Workers' Organizing Collection Bulk, 1930-1941 1916-1947, (Bulk 1930-1941)

Efforts to unionize New York City department store employees in the 1930s took place under the auspices of the Department Store Employees Union, Local 1250 (at first affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, and subsequently with the Congress of Industrial Organizations) and the Office Workers' Union, an affiliate of the Trade Union Unity League, a Communist Party labor initiative. The collection contains pamphlets, leaflets, newsletters and clippings relating to sit-down strikes, department store and office workers strikes and organizing in the 1930s, printed material from the Office Workers' Union, and of the Department Store Employees Union, Local 1250.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 linear feet; (1 box)

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Zack, Arnold. Zack, Arnold. Additional Arbitration files, 1996.

Title: Zack, Arnold. Additional Arbitration files, 1996.

ArchivalResource: 4 linear ft.

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Ketchum, Gary, 1924-. Oral history interview with Gary Ketchum in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1982 Oct. 06 [microform] / conducted by Merle O. Davis.

Title: Oral history interview with Gary Ketchum in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1982 Oct. 06 [microform] / conducted by Merle O. Davis.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 65 leaves ; 28 cm.

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Wolfson, Theresa, 1897-1972. Theresa Wolfson series 3. Arbitration and mediation files, 1942-1969.

Title: Theresa Wolfson series 3. Arbitration and mediation files, 1942-1969.

Include correspondence, mss. notes, awards, statements, clippings, and papers on arbitration and mediation cases handled by Wolfson, 1942-1969. Wolfson arbitrated in the chemical, machinery, and newspaper industries, among others. Major cases include Allen-Stevens Corporation vs. International Association of Machinists (IAM) (1960) regarding discharge; Amperek Electronics Company vs. IAM (1958) regarding discharge and sick leave; Community and Social Agency Employees vs. Professional Employees (1962) regarding contract interpretation on dismissals; DeWald Radio Manufacturing Company vs. United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (1943) regarding contract renewal; Eastern Bias Manufacturing Company vs. Textile Workers of America (1958) regarding wage increase and backpay; Eaton Manufacturing Company Incorporated vs. IAM (1954) regarding sick leave; H.M. Storms Company vs. United Paperworkers (1957) regarding layoff; R.H. Macy and Company vs. United Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Employees (1944) regarding wage increase; Manhattan News Company vs. International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) (1954) regarding layoff; Mobilization for Youth vs. IBT (l966) regarding discharge; New York City Board of Education vs. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (1967, 1969) regarding discharge and transfer; Reilly Tar and Chemical Corporation vs. Chemical Workers Union (1944) regarding wages and retroactive pay, night shift bonuses, vacations, paid holidays, and reporting pay.

ArchivalResource: .7 linear ft.

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Erdmann, Helen, 1914-. Oral history interview with Helen Erdmann in Waterloo, Iowa, 1982 June 02 [microform] / conducted by Merle O. Davis.

Title: Oral history interview with Helen Erdmann in Waterloo, Iowa, 1982 June 02 [microform] / conducted by Merle O. Davis.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 34 leaves ; 28 cm.

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United Automobile Workers of America, District 65 Printed Ephemera Collection, 1950-1990

Title: United Automobile Workers of America, District 65 Printed Ephemera Collection 1950-1990

The Tamiment Library, New York University, a special collection documenting the history of United States radicalism, labor, and progressive social action, accumulated this artificial collection of printed ephemera gradually over the years through purchases, donations, standing orders with publishers, organizations, and bookstores, and through ongoing collecting by staff.

ArchivalResource: 2.0 linear feet; (2 boxes)

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Scrapbooks on labor unions in the United States, 1948-1952.

Title: Scrapbooks on labor unions in the United States, 1948-1952.

Comprises scrapbooks of newspaper clippings on various labor unions including the United Department Store Workers of America; Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America; Building Service Employees' International Union; International Brotherhood of Teamsters; Distributive, Processing, and Office Workers of America; Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union; and the Retail Clerks International Association. One volume covers department stores in New York City, and one volume has clippings about the Clerks and Teamsters in San Francisco; other volumes are labelled with the names of the various unions and include clippings from geographic areas including the northeast, midwest, and California.

ArchivalResource: 8 v.

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United Automobile Workers of America, District 65 Records, 1933-1995

Title: United Automobile Workers of America, District 65 Records 1933-1995

The labor union now known as District 65, UAW, was organized in 1933, by Arthur Osman and in 1938 became Local 65 of the United Retail and Wholesale Employees of America, CIO. In 1948, Local 65's leadership refused to sign the Taft-Hartley Act's non-communist affidavits, and Local 65, seceded from its parent union and the CIO but rejoined in 1954 as District 65 of the RWDSU (Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union). In 1969, differences, including the union's opposition to the Vietnam War, led to District 65's disaffiliation from the RWDSU and the formation of the National Council of Distributive Workers of America. In 1979, District 65 joined the United Automobile Workers. Though at first primarily composed of Jewish workers, the union expanded to include persons of various geographical and ethnic backgrounds from the retail and manufacturing sectors, clerical personnel, salesclerks, writers, editors, technicians, and lawyers. The collection contains minutes, shop files, arbitrations, grievances, counsel files, membership information and reports, financial material, and the records of some of the unions that were affiliated with District 65 throughout its history. NOTE: This collection is housed offsite and advance notice is required for use, with the exception of the first two series, which are available on microfilm only (R-7450).

ArchivalResource: 266.0 linear feet; 271 boxes

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United Automobile Workers of America, District 65 Photographs- Part I: Negatives and Interpositives, Bulk, 1940-1959, 1938-1969

Title: United Automobile Workers of America, District 65 Photographs- Part I: Negatives and Interpositives Bulk, 1940-1959 1938-1969

District Council 65, United Automobile Workers (UAW) was organized in 1933 by a group of Jewish workers employed in dry goods warehouses on New York's Lower East Side. In 1935 it became a local of the Wholesale Dry Goods Employees Union; subsequently, it affiliated with the Distributive Trades Council of New York and the Retail Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU); it affiliated with the UAW in 1979. The union went out of existence in 1994, when bankruptcy forced it to close. Between 1937 and 1942, District 65 was at the center of a group of New York City left-wing locals organizing large numbers of warehouse and retail workers; it later expanded its organizing to include white-collar workers in publishing and universities. Politically active in areas beyond its own immediate concerns, District 65 was an early participant in the civil rights movement, as well as one of the first labor unions to publicly oppose the Vietnam War. It also took a progressive stance within its own organization, with rank and file members playing an active role in their union. The collection consists of nearly 30,000 black and white negatives spanning the late 1930s through the early 1960s, with the bulk from the 1940s and 1950s, shot by members of District 65's own Camera Club, which functioned as staff photographers for the union's newspaper. The images document the everyday organizational life of District 65, its leaders and its diverse membership (including men and women of Jewish, African-American, Irish and Hispanic descent), while at the same time providing especially strong documentation generally for left and liberal causes of the 1940s-1960s, including civil rights, rank and file participation in union activities, working class leisure and recreational activities. Also included are images of prominent left-wing and liberal politicians, entertainers, and celebrities.

ArchivalResource: 32.0 linear feet; (32 boxes)

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Doolin, Emmitt, 1924-. Oral history interview with Emmitt Doolin in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1982 Aug. 16 [microform] / conducted by Merle O. Davis.

Title: Oral history interview with Emmitt Doolin in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1982 Aug. 16 [microform] / conducted by Merle O. Davis.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 31 leaves ; 28 cm.

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C.I.O. Organizing Committee. South Carolina. Papers, 1946-1953.

Title: Papers, 1946-1953.

Papers principally relate to efforts to organize textile industry workers in South Carolina's piedmont region. Correspondence is principally that of Franz E. Daniel, South Carolina director of the C.I.O. Organizing Committee, 1946-1950, and state director of the Textile Workers of America Union, 1946-1949, and of Lloyd P. Vaughn, South Carolina director of the C.I.O. Organizing Committee, 1950-1953, with union officials of the C.I.O., the Organizing Committee, and the T.W.A.U. There are also references to the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, the International Woodworkers of America, the United Furniture Workers of America, the Food, Tobacco, Agricultural and Allied Workers Union of America, the Communications Workers of America, and the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, and material on labor-related groups such as the American Arbitration Association, the Labor Press Association, Inc., and the National Religion and Labor Foundation. Also included are press releases, pamphlets, financial papers, clippings, and reports.

ArchivalResource: 12,612 items.

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United States. Dept. of Labor. United States. Dept. of Labor. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Collective Bargaining Agreements, 1942-1980.

Title: United States. Dept. of Labor. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Collective Bargaining Agreements, 1942-1980.

ArchivalResource: 21 linear ft.

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Meyers, Irving, 1907-2003. Irving Meyers papers, 1939-1992.

Title: Irving Meyers papers, 1939-1992.

Legal documents, correspondence, memoranda, petitions on behalf of unions seeking recognition as representatives for collective bargaining, records of union contract negotiations, affidavits, reports, and other materials from the office of Irving Meyers, a lawyer who represented many unions in the Chicago metropolitan area and surrounding region, many of which were identified with the left-wing of the labor movement. Unions represented in the collection include the Actors' Equity Association, Radio Writers Guild; Local No. 453 of the United Automobile Aircraft and Agricultural Implement Workers of America; International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union; United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America; United Farm Equipment and Metal Workers of America; United Auto Workers; and the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union. Topics include allegations of unfair labor practices. Includes materials relating to the National Lawyers Guild's activities on behalf of civil rights in Mississippi, 1965-68, with a report by Meyers on his experiences in Mississippi (1965 Feb., 8 p.).

ArchivalResource: 20 linear ft. (48 boxes)

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Sam Reiss Negatives

Title: Sam Reiss Negatives

The Sam Reiss Photographic Negatives Collection is notable for its size (more than 120,000 black and white images in formats including 35mm, 120mm, 3x5, and 4x5) and breadth of coverage of 20th century labor unions and labor union-affiliated organizations (hundreds of unions, locals, and labor organizations), as well as the length of time it covers-the nearly 30 years between 1946 to 1975. It documents the face of organized labor in the New York City metropolitan area: mainly its institutionalized forms and quotidian administrative activities, but it also captures its broader community, and occasionally its historic moments, such as the such as the 1955 merger convention of the AFL-CIO. Prominent among Reiss' clients, and particularly well-represented in the Collection are images he shot for the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America; Transport Workers Union; the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers-Local 3; United Federation of Teachers; and the Retail, Wholesale, Department Store Workers Union. The Collection also includes formal and informal portraits of local and national union leaders and personalities, including George Meany and Walter Reuther, Cesar Chavez, Michael Quill, Bessie Hillman, A. Philip Randolph, David Dubinsky, Eleanor Roosevelt, United Nations Secretary General U Thant, Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King, Senators John F. Kennedy, Hubert H. Humphrey, and Edward Kennedy, New York Representative Bella Abzug, New York City Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, and Presidents Harry Truman, John Kennedy, and Lyndon Johnson. NOTE: This collection is housed offsite and advance notice is required for use.

ArchivalResource: 145.37 Linear Feet

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AFL-CIO. Internal Disputes Plan. Decisions of the Impartial Umpire, 1964-1976.

Title: AFL-CIO. Internal Disputes Plan. Decisions of the Impartial Umpire, 1964-1976.

This is a collection of decisions of the Impartial Umpire in AFL-CIO Internal Disputes.

ArchivalResource:

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United Automobile Workers of America, District 65 Printed Ephemera Collection, 1950-1990

Title: United Automobile Workers of America, District 65 Printed Ephemera Collection 1950-1990

The Tamiment Library, New York University, a special collection documenting the history of United States radicalism, labor, and progressive social action, accumulated this artificial collection of printed ephemera gradually over the years through purchases, donations, standing orders with publishers, organizations, and bookstores, and through ongoing collecting by staff.

ArchivalResource: 2.0 linear feet; (2 boxes)

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Peurala, Alice, 1928-. Oral history interview with Alice Peurala, 1977.

Title: Oral history interview with Alice Peurala, 1977.

In 1978, the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations of the University of Michigan and Wayne State University conducted oral history interviews with trade-union women. Major subjects covered were: women in trade-unions, wages and benefits, working conditions, and social issues.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 53 leaves ; 29 cm.

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Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union. Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union. Local 1199, Drug, Hospital & Health Care Employees. Additional records.

Title: Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union. Local 1199, Drug, Hospital & Health Care Employees. Additional records.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear ft.

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Guide to the Daniel Nilva Negatives, 1934-1975

Title: Guide to the Daniel Nilva Negatives, 1934-1975

The collection is comprised of 6,827 black and white negatives shot by photographer Daniel Nilva. These images reflect Nilva's personal and professional involvement with trade unions, as well as his political interests and affiliations. Union photographs include images shot for the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Hotel and Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Union, and International Union of Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers, among others. While many of the images record routine meetings and banquets, a significant part of the collection documents strikes and demonstrations, and a small but significant splinter group of the Communist Party of the U.S., the Communist Party (Opposition).

ArchivalResource: 5.25 Linear Feet

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Buscher, John, 1934-. Oral history interview with John Buscher in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1982 Aug. 17 [microform] / conducted by Merle O. Davis.

Title: Oral history interview with John Buscher in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1982 Aug. 17 [microform] / conducted by Merle O. Davis.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 24 leaves ; 28 cm.

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Guide to the Daniel Nilva Negatives, 1934-1975

Title: Guide to the Daniel Nilva Negatives, 1934-1975

The collection is comprised of 6,827 black and white negatives shot by photographer Daniel Nilva. These images reflect Nilva's personal and professional involvement with trade unions, as well as his political interests and affiliations. Union photographs include images shot for the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Hotel and Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Union, and International Union of Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers, among others. While many of the images record routine meetings and banquets, a significant part of the collection documents strikes and demonstrations, and a small but significant splinter group of the Communist Party of the U.S., the Communist Party (Opposition).

ArchivalResource: 5.25 Linear Feet

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Black, John, 1921-2006,. Oral history interviews with John Black, 1987.

Title: Oral history interviews with John Black, 1987.

Black discusses his early years growing up in Berlin, Germany, after World War I, his communist and Trotskyist beliefs and activities as a youth and adult, run-ins with the Nazis, and his eventual migration to the United States. Throughout the interviews Black discusses his relationship with the Socialist Workers Party and his split to join the Workers Party. He details his struggle to establish a national union for hospital workers beginning in Buffalo, New York, and including New York City, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, and describes the strikes he led. He comments on Doris Turner's election as president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Local 1199 union in New York City.

ArchivalResource: Sound recordings: 8 sound cassettes (ca. 7 hrs.)Transcripts: 2 v. (29, 57, 60, 48 p.)

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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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Winstead, Ralph D. (Ralph Dimmit), 1894-1949. Ralph D. Winstead papers, 1922-1949.

Title: Ralph D. Winstead papers, 1922-1949.

Papers include research data and reports for the National Recovery Administration; reports Winstead made while a field investigator for the U.S. Senate Civil Liberties Committee regarding alleged acts of espionage against unions by employers; documents relating to the 1949 National Labor Relations Board staff hearing examiners controversy; and records relating to the Shipbuilders Stabilization Committee and to the Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America. National Recovery Administration (NRA) documents in this collection largely relate to the construction industry and include carbons of preliminary and summary reports (1933-1935) on the industry and NRA codes; manuscript documents on sources of then current statistics on construction, on the status of American Federation of Labor unions functioning in the industry, and on building trades wages in a variety of cities from 1925 to 1935. Also a memorandum from Winstead to James E. Hughes regarding the revision or elimination of construction codes. U.S. Senate Civil Liberties Committee (La Follette Committee) documents include carbon copies of reports by Winstead and other field investigators dealing with alleged anti-union espionage activities, largely in Texas, engaged in by the following: Sugarland Industries, the Texas Can Company, the Freeport Sulphur Company, the Marshall Canning Company, the Weirton Steel Company, the Ford Motor Company, International Corporation Services, the Corporation Auxiliary Company, and the Waeker Brothers Iron Company. Victims of this alleged spying campaign included the National Maritime Union, the Industrial Workers of the World, the Oil Workers' International Union, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the Steelworkers Organizing Committee, the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, the United Mine Workers of America, and the United Retail and Wholesale Employees. Included with the reports are notes, letters, and financial documents. Significant correspondence includes that of J. Edgar Hoover, Robert M. La Follette Jr., Malcolm Halliday (assistant general counsel) and Herber Blankenhorn. A major subject of the reports was the activities of the Corporation Auxiliary Company. National Labor Relations Board documents include papers concerning the 1949 staff hearing examiners controversy. These consist of manuscript documents ranking prospective candidates for the position of hearing examiner, petitions regarding the Civil Service Commission's attempt to remove hearing examiners, and reports, memoranda, briefs, and letters regarding the controversy. Charles Antone Horsky (lawyer) is the chief correspondent. Documents relating to the Shipbuilders Stabilization Committee include dockets of interpretive rulings regarding work rules, wages, fringe benefits and apprentice training; and various documents having to do with zone standards in the industry. Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America (IUMSWA) documents include constitutions, by-laws, agreements, minutes, publications, reports and correspondence. Of special interest are the materials on the 1945 dispute of the union with the Todd Shipbuilding Corporation and the Bethlehem Steel Corporation (San Pedro yard). Also included are documents (1941-1942) regarding the IUMSWA organizing activities, including briefs on hiring, employment and communist activities; memos on jurisdictional disputes between the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations, and proposed union policy for shipyard hiring practices in Washington and Oregon. Major correspondents include John Green (president, IUMSWA) and George Smith (a national representative). Also, a lengthy exchange of correspondence (1922, 1943-1944) between Winstead and Walter N. Polakov (industrial diagnostician and engineering counselor) largely concerning the direct and indirect costs of mine accidents; manuscripts and publications of Winstead on the history of union busting, a history of the construction industry (1920-1934), a history of the IUMSWA, a pamphlet on legal rights for ship-building workers and a "union busters and finks" handbook.

ArchivalResource: 4 linear ft.

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United Automobile, Aircraft, and Vehicle Workers of America. District 65. Records [microform], 1933-1992.

Title: Records [microform], 1933-1992.

Minutes are arranged to follow the changes in the structure of District 65 over the years. Originally divided into autonomous divisions based on the kinds of goods handled by the members, the union has at times been divided along local and geographic lines as well. The General Council is constitutionally the highest body in the District 65 governmental structure. The Executive Council has only the power to recommend. Its functions are the preparation of programs and policies to be submitted to the General Council and the regular review of the union's departments. Included in this series (complete except for the minutes of the 1935 Executive Board meetings) are the minutes taken during the union's founding meeting in the living room of Arthur Osman's home. The Counsel Files series includes correspondence, legal briefs, transcripts, decisions and exhibits which document the major struggles of District 65 with employers, government and other unions. During the 1960s the union developed its own legal department with Eugene Eisner and then Donald Crody as chief counsel. Important files include those relating to 65's disaffiliation from the RWDSU in 1969 and the Employment Act suit brought by the union against Richard M. Nixon and other government officials. The files for John Wiley & Sons, Inc., v. Livingston, concerning the merger of a unionized corporation into a non-unionized corporation, which was decided by the Supreme Court, is also a part of this series.

ArchivalResource: 19 microfilm reels.

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Guide to the Tamiment Library Newspapers, 1873-2014

Title: Guide to the Tamiment Library Newspapers, 1873-2014

The collection contains some 523 titles to date (September 2018). They were published by international and local labor unions in the United States and Canada, radical political parties (Anarchist, Communist, Maoist, Socialist, Trotskyist), the New Left, and by organizations representing civil rights movements (African-Americans, prisoners, etc.), peace movements, protest against the war in Vietnam (including titles published by American soldiers), activity in support of national liberation movements, student and youth activism, the counterculture, feminism and gay liberation, and other activism. While most of the titles are from the U.S., and of these about one fourth are from New York State, there are also some foreign titles, most from Western Europe, primarily Great Britain, France, Italy and Spain. The holdings continue to grow through donations and subscriptions. While the majority of the titles lack catalog records in BobCat, NYU's electronic library catalog, retrospective cataloging is taking place. An unpublished guide available in the library shows holdings information for each title.

ArchivalResource: 290 Linear Feet in 657 boxes

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International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers. President's Office. Jursidictional files of President James B Carey, 1951-1964 (bulk 1954-1962).

Title: Jursidictional files of President James B Carey, 1951-1964 (bulk 1954-1962).

Documents the resolution of jurisdictional conflicts involving the IUE and other unions for the period 1951-1964. The bulk of the files chronicle complaints and charges filed by the IUE and other disputants in jurisdictional hearings before the AFL-CIO Executive Council. Impartial umpires and arbitrators were retained by the Federation to adjudicate disputes. The majority of cases involved investigations of union raiding, boycotts, and organizational activities in violation of the AFL-CIO non-raiding agreement of 1953. A smaller quantity of supplementary files cover union mergers and organization matters involving other unions. This series highlights the fractious relationship between the CIO affiliates of the Industrial Union Department and craft-dominated unions aligned with the Building and Construction Trades Department of the AFL. The jurisdictional struggles the 1950s illustrated the tenuous position of many unions struggling to maintain their membership in the immediate post-merger (1955) era. Moreover, they exacerbated the growing rift between IUE President James Carey and AFL-CIO President George Meany. Carey's dissatisfaction with the Executive Council's handling of jurisdictional matters pushed the combative IUE leader to the brink of considering disaffiliation with the AFL-CIO.

ArchivalResource: 3.00fcubic ft.

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Feinberg, I. Robert (Irving Robert), 1912-1975. Series 1. General arbitration case files, part a, 1946-1975.

Title: Series 1. General arbitration case files, part a, 1946-1975.

Consist of documentation of cases arbitrated by Feinberg, pertaining to the electronics, transportation, construction, chemical, aluminum, retail trade, entertainment, television, publishing, wholesale and retail food, paper, shipbuilding, textile, bakery and confectionery, machinery and aircraft industries. Also case files relating to civil service, public education, and public utilities arbitration. Files may contain notes; correspondence; decisions and awards; collective agreements; hearings transcriptions; and briefs and/or exhibits used as evidence. Include cases involving companies with names beginning with letters A-M. Significant awards include those for Allied Maintenance Company vs. Transport Workers Union of America (TWU) and Building Service Employees' International Union (1949, 1961) on issues of dismissal, alcoholism, employee fighting, and wage rate; and Aluminum Company of America vs. International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers and United Automobile Workers (UAW) (1948, 1956) on issues of contract interpretation, collective agreement, suspension, strikes, slowdown, work stoppage, work assignment, and position classification. Other awards include American Car and Foundry Division vs. United Steelworkers of America (USA) (1962-1968) on issues of insubordination, dismissal, incentive system, job abolishment, position classification, and employee fighting; American Cyanamid Company vs. United Mine Workers of America and International Chemical Workers' Union (1948-1951) on issues of seniority, ability to pay, promotion, recall, position classification, back pay, strikes and vacation pay; Armstrong Cork Company vs. Rubber Workers' Federal Labor Union and International Association of Machinists (1962-1965) on issues of suspension, absenteeism, supervisors, and seniority; and Bloomingdale's vs. Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union (1949-1955) on issues of transfer, layoff, seniority, and improper work attitude. Other awards include Carrier Corporation vs. Sheet Metal Workers' International Association (1963-1965) on issues of benefit withdrawal, rest periods, position classification, job evaluation, and wage rates; Celanese Corp. of America vs. TWU (1948-1953) on issues of dismissal, crew size, scheduling, management rights, wage rates, incompetence and inefficiency, premium pay, hours of work, overtime, working conditions, incentive system, workers' rights, transfer, work assignment, back pay, suspension, work rules, assembly line, good faith bargaining, equipment, and improper work attitude; Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) vs. Radio Writers' Guild and Directors' Guild of America (1953, 1974) on issues of contract interpretation, position classification, overtime, and plant rules; Continental Can Company vs. USA (1951-1952) on issues of superseniority, union business, layoffs, vacation pay, scheduling, management rights, and crew size; and E.I. duPont de Nemours & Company vs. Employees of Perth Amboy Works and Parlin Employees' Association (1963, 1968) on issues of reinstatement, handicapped workers, medical release, work assignment, duty to bargain, position classification, and wage rates. Other cases include General Electric Corp. vs. United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (1949, 1954, 1965) on issues of timeliness, arbitrability, dismissal, insubordination, work assignment, suspension, strikes, union activity, shop stewards, and recall; League of Off-Broadway Theaters and Producers vs. Actors' Equity Association (1971, 1974) on issues of collective negotiations and salaries; and Lehigh Portland Cement Company vs. United Cement, Lime, and Gypsum Workers International Union (1961-1963) on issues of vacations, seniority, unemployment benefits, layoff, arbitrability, position classification, and job posting; and Mack Manufacturing vs. UAW (1948-1950) on issues of wage incentive, work assignment, layoffs, bumping, handicapped workers, holidays, workers' rights, insurance, seniority, supervisors, position classification, dismissal, improper personal conduct, and work rules.

ArchivalResource: Series 1, parts a and b: 46.5 linear ft.

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Smith, Virgil, 1930-. Oral history interview with Virgil Smith in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1982 Aug. 13 [microform] / conducted by Merle O. Davis.

Title: Oral history interview with Virgil Smith in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1982 Aug. 13 [microform] / conducted by Merle O. Davis.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 54 leaves ; 28 cm.

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Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union. [Constitutions, agreements, etc.]

Title: [Constitutions, agreements, etc.] 1946-1958.

ArchivalResource: pamphlets

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Livingston, David,. Oral history interview with David Livingston, 1969.

Title: Oral history interview with David Livingston, 1969.

From 1968-1970, Herbert Hill, Roberta McBride and Norman McRae conducted oral history interviews with 32 African-Americans who played a role in trade-unionism in the United States. Major subjects covered were: Afro-American employment, civil rights organizations, trade-unions and organizing, UAW black caucus, discrimination, race relations, segregation, strikes and lockouts, and wages.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 38 leaves ; 29 cm.

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Shields, Justin, 1941-. Oral history interview with Justin Shields in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1982 Aug. 11 [microform] / conducted by Merle O. Davis.

Title: Oral history interview with Justin Shields in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1982 Aug. 11 [microform] / conducted by Merle O. Davis.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 21 leaves ; 28 cm.

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Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.). North Carolina Political Action Committee. Papers, 1944-1954.

Title: Papers, 1944-1954.

Papers relating to the Committee's activities in promoting the C.I.O. viewpoint on political issues and in advocating registration and voting in local and national elections. Primarily the files of Earl Lafayette Sandefur who in 1947 was the acting executive director and then executive director and secretary-treasurer of the North Carolina Political Action Committee. There is correspondence with various union officials and political leaders. Unions mentioned include the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America; the American Federation of Hosiery Workers; the Communications Workers of America, including the Telephone Workers Organizing Committee; the Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America; the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union; the Textile Workers Union of America; and the United Steelworkers of America. There is also material on the State Industrial Union Councils and the United Labor Political Committee for North Carolina, and a survey of North Carolina state legislators, 1951, to ascertain the profession of each, the number of terms served, and the desire to return to the General Assembly.

ArchivalResource: 2,151 items.

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