Guide to the New Yorkers at Work Oral History Collection, 1979-2000

Sverdlove, Leon

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McMillian, Josie

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International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Local no. 3 (New York, N.Y.)

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Local 3's origins date back to 1887 when electricians in New York City building trades organized the Electrical Mechanical Wiremen's Union of the Knights of Labor, Local Assembly 5468. This local affiliated with the AFL in the next decade but would not join the IBEW, which established three other locals. A conciliation was reached, however, and an IBEW charter was granted in February 1900. During a time when workers risked being blackballed for union affiliation, Local 3...

Social Service Employees Union

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United Automobile, Aircraft, and Vehicle Workers of America. District 65.

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Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

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Begun in 1979, The New Yorkers at Work Oral History Collection is an ongoing series of interviews, conducted primarily by the staff of New York University's Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, that document the history of labor in the metropolitan area. The largest group of interviews were collected for the New Yorkers at Work: Oral Histories of Life, Labor, and Industry Curriculum Project. In 1980, with a grant from the New York Council for the Humanities, about 150 interviews were conducted with ...

Fried, Philoine

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Miller, Joyce

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Bakery and Confectionery Workers' International Union of America.

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Fasanella, Ralph

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Ralph Fasanella, born September 7, 1914, was a self-taught painter whose large, detailed works depict urban working life. The child of Italian immigrants, Fasanella was born and raised in the Bronx and later became a member of United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) Local 1227 while working as a machinist in Brooklyn. Fasanella also fought in the Spanish Civil War with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and after returning from the war began to work as a union organizer for the UE....

Social Service Employees Union. Local 371

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Social Service Employees Union Local 371 is part of District Council 37 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFL-CIO). The union primarily represents New York City workers in the social service professions. Although the origins of the union can be traced back to the 1930s, their modern story begins in the bitter cold of January 1965 when more than 8,000 welfare workers spent 28 days on union picket lines and leaders from what were then two separate entities, the S...

Roberts, Lillian

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Labor leader. From the description of Reminiscences of Lillian Roberts : oral history, [198-?]. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122480947 ...

Cleary, Edward J. (Edward John), 1906-

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Brennan, Peter J., 1918-1996

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Peter Joseph Brennan was born May 24, 1918 in New York, New York, the son of John J. and Agnes (Moore) Brennan. His father was an ironworker who died when he was three. After attending the College of the City of New York, he became an apprentice painter and joined Local 1456 of the Painter's Union. He married Josephine Brickley. During World War II, he served in the Naval Reserve. His career as a union official started when he was elected as Business Manager of Local 1456 in 1947. In 1951, he be...

Coalition of Labor Union Women (U.S.)

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Formed 1974. From the description of Records, 1972-1980. (Wayne State University). WorldCat record id: 28419768 ...

Kheel, Theodore Woodrow

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Lawyer, mediator. From the description of Reminiscences of Theodore Woodrow Kheel : oral history, 1969. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122513675 Lawyer, arbitrator, and industrial consultant. The awards and opinions were rendered for the New York City transportation system for which Kheel served as an impartial chairman and arbitrator. From the description of Theodore Woodrow Kheel arbitration papers, 1...

Newspaper Guild of New York

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The Newspaper Guild of New York (Newspaper Guild, Local 3) was chartered in 1933 and led in its early years by Heywood Broun, a successful columnist for the World Telegram. Three major New York daily newspapers were organized by 1941, and in 1937 Time Magazine became the first magazine organized by the local. At first the Guild represented only the newsroom workers, but jurisdiction was expanded to include non-editorial newspaper staff and commercial workers, as well as some employees of news se...

Flaxer, Abram, 1904-

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Abram Flaxer was born in Vilna, Lithuania, September 12, 1904. At the age of six, he immigrated to the United States with his family, settling in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. He was exposed to socialist ideas early on, first at the Rand School of Social Science in Manhattan and later at City College, where he was involved in a Marxist study group while earning his B.S. degree. After graduation he joined the radical "Pen and Hammer" club, where he further developed the ideological orienta...

International Longshoremen's Association. President

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Cogen, Charles, 1903-

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New York Hotel Trades Council

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Zeller, Belle, 1903-

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Dolgoff, Sam, 1902-....

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Member of the Socialist Party and using the pen name Sam Weiner, wrote many radical and anarchist periodicals. From the description of Sam Dolgoff papers, 1907-1969, (bulk 1922-1935). (Wayne State University, Archives of Labor & Urban). WorldCat record id: 32321019 Sam Weiner (pen name of Sam Dolgoff): born in Russia, 1902, resident of New York City. Was a writer, editor, house painter, and founder and activist for several anarchist organizations, including a role as spo...

Fleischman, Harry

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Harry Fleischman (1914- ) has been a lifelong labor and socialist activist since he joined the Washington Heights "circle" of the Young People's Socialist League as a teenager in the 1930s. For the Socialist Party, he served as National Secretary of the Red Falcons (1936); regional director of the Socialist Party of Indiana-Illinois (1939-42); national secretary of the Socialist Party in New York City (1942-50); and campaign manager for Norman Thomas' presidential campaigns in 1944 and 1948. In ...

Krupat, Kitty

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The International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union was founded in New York City in 1900 by mostly Socialist immigrant workers who sought to unite the various crafts in the growing women’s garment industry. The union soon reflected changes in the sector and rapidly organized thousands of unskilled and semi-skilled women, mostly Jewish and Italian young immigrants. Exemplifying the “new unionism,” the ILGWU led two of the most widespread and best-known industrial strikes of the early Tw...

Sverdlove, Leon

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United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America

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District 7 of the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America (UE) consisted of locals throughout Ohio and are now part of the UE's Eastern Region. From the description of UE National Office records relating to District 7 and District 7 locals, 1936-1990s. (University of Pittsburgh). WorldCat record id: 767644242 District 5 of the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America (UE) consisted of locals throughout Canada. From the description...

McMillian, Josie

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Avrutin, Harry

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Carey, Philip A.

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International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America. District 65

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District 65, United Automobile Workers (UAW) began as the Wholesale Dry Goods Workers Union organized in September 1933 by Arthur Osman and a group of Jewish workers at a dry goods warehouse on New York City's Lower East Side. Originally affiliated with the United Hebrew Trades, the union obtained a charter from the American Federation of Labor (AFL) early in 1935 to become Federal Local 19932, Wholesale Dry Good Employees Union. Between 1937-1942, Local 65 was at the ce...

Bernhardt, Debra E.

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Debra Bernhardt (1953-2001) was a labor historian and director of the Tamiment Library and the Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University. She came to the Wagner Labor Archives at its beginning, in 1979, and was responsible for building its core collections of labor records and oral histories. Bernhardt was active in the Society of American Atchivists, the New York Labor History Association, the Oral History Association qand many other historical, archival and political organizations...

International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Local 3 (New York, N.Y.).

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United Storeworkers (Organization). Local 3 (New York, N.Y.)

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International Jewelry Workers' Union

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United Office and Professional Workers of America

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The United Office and Professional Workers of America (UOPWA), a union of clerical workers largely in the private sector, was formed in 1937 by the merger of fourteen American Federation of Labor (AFL) white collar unions (most prominently the New York City-based Bookkeepers, Stenographers, and Accountants Union Local 124646) and nine independent unions, totaling 8,600 members. It quickly secured a charter from the newly-organized Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). UOPWA, whose membersh...

Stack, Joe

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Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America New York Joint Board

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Berkman, Brenda

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Captain, New York City Fire Department. From the description of Reminiscences of Brenda Berkman : oral history, 2005. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 269258167 The New York City Fire Department (NYCFD, also known as the FDNY by the department) began accepting applications from women for the position of firefighter in 1977, but did not hire any women until after Brenda Berkman successfully sued the City of New York on behalf of ...

AFSCME. District Council 37 (New York, N.Y.)

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American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, District Council 37 is an umbrella group of 56 local unions representing public employees in New York City. Chartered in 1944, DC 37 has grown from an organization of less than a thousand employees in the city's parks, hospital, finance, and health departments to the country's largest federation of public employees, with more than 125,000 members working in the city's agencies and cultural institutions. The collection contains consti...

United Federation of Teachers

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The Teachers' Union (TU) of New York City was organized in 1916 and chartered as Local 5 of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). Although constrained by the AFT's no-strike pledge, laws against strikes by public employees, the authoritarian and paternalistic policies of the Board of Education, and the resistance of many teachers to trade-union appeals, the Teacher' Union soon won a reputation for militancy. The Teachers' Union not only addressed the bread and butter issues of salaries, pen...

Robinson, Cleveland L. (Cleveland Lowellyn), 1914-1995

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Cleveland Robinson was born in 1914 in Swabys Hope, a rural parish of Jamaica. After serving as a local constable and an elementary school teacher, he emigrated to the United States in 1944. On arrival he took a job in a Manhattan dry goods store and very soon became active in District 65, Distributive Workers. After organizing his own shop in 1947, he went on to become a steward, and then a full-time organizer for the union. He was elected vice-president in 1950 and secretary-treasurer in 1952,...

Communist Party of the United States of America

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The Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), a Marxist-Leninist party aligned with the Soviet Union, was founded in 1919 in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution by the left wing members of the Socialist Party USA. These split into two groups, with each holding founding conventions in Chicago in September 1919: one which established the Communist Labor Party, and a second which established the Communist Party of America. In a 1920 Joint Unity Convention, a minority faction of t...

Miller, Joyce, 1959-....

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Stack, Joey

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Avrutin, Harry, 1917-1988

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Harry Avrutin, a native of Philadelphia, was a charter member and business representative of Local 153 of the Office and Professional Employees from 1945 to 1949. He became secretary-treasurer of the New York State Union Label and Service Trade Department and of the Greater New York and Long Island Council, A.F.L.-C.I.O., in 1949. He held both positions at his death. Mr. Avrutin joined the New York City Central Labor Council in 1974 and retired in 1986. Avrutin died of cancer of the liv...

Carey, Philip A.

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Catholic priest, Director of Xavier Institute of Industrial Relations, labor mediator, union election supervisor. From the description of Papers, [ca. 1940-1984] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155488979 ...

Fried, Philoine.

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Krupat, Kitty

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