Guide to the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives Printed Ephemera Collection on the United Telegraph Workers, 1916-1990

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Guide to the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives Printed Ephemera Collection on the United Telegraph Workers, 1916-1990

1916-1990

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/pe_025/pe_025.html

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives Printed Ephemera Collection on the United Telegraph Workers is an artificial collection, collected and assembled by the Tamiment Library over the course of several decades. It consists of contracts, agreements and constitutions from the United Telegraph Workers as well as its predecessor, the Commercial Telegraphers' Union of America. There are also files from the various divisions of the Union, representing workers from Canada and the United States who worked for the Canadian Pacific System, the United Press System, and the Western Union, among others.

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Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

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Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

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Commercial Telegraphers' Union of America

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United Telegraph Workers

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The United Telegraph Workers, known until 1968 as the Commercial Telegraphers' Union of America, emerged from a series of struggles between smaller unions of private and postal telegraph workers. During the 1930s and 1940s, its chief rivals were the American Communications Association (known until 1937 as the American Radio Telegraphists Association), and a company union, the Association Western Union Employees. Pitted against a single dominant employer, Western Union, and beset by technological...

Tamiment Library

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The Tamiment Library Web Archive (Labor and the Left): Education and Student Movements, was created with the Web Archiving Service from the California Digital Library. This service employs open source web archiving utilities developed by Internet Archive with the support of the The International Internet Preservation Consortium. The Web Archiving Service was made possible with support from the National Digital Information and Infrastructure Preservation Program and the University of California, ...