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Firth, George P. George P. Firth collection of Office and Professional Employees International Union records, 1934-1984.

Title: George P. Firth collection of Office and Professional Employees International Union records, 1934-1984.

This collection documents Firth's activities as union organizer, and later, vice president of the Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU). It includes correspondence with local unions as well as OEIU presidents J.O. Bloodworth and Howard Coughlin. There are also pamphlets, expense reports, material concerning the R.L. Polk & Co. National Labor Relations Board case, itineraries, convention proceedings, constitutions, minutes, executive board meeting agendas, and a 297-page typescript, "History of OPEIU." This collection includes local union files for Tacoma, Washington, and selected Eastern states and union organizing files arranged by company. A scrapbook box contains clippings from OPEIU publications, The Office Worker, 1943-1953, White Collar, 1954-1970 and 1971-1984. Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of the Office Employees International Union (OPEIU), 1945-1980 (incomplete) is also included.

ArchivalResource: 4 cubic feet.

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