Alexander Lurkis Photographs circa 1938-1957, undated

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Alexander Lurkis Photographs circa 1938-1957, undated

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Alexander Lurkis was a civil engineer and original member of the Civil Service Technical Guild, founded in 1937. From 1956-1958 Lurkis was president of AFSCME Local 375, the Civil Service Technical Guild. The collection consists of ten black and white photographs from the 1930s (circa) to the 1950s picturing Alexander Lurkis with other members of the Civil Service Technical Guild at conventions and retreats, and from the installation of Lurkin as president of AFSCME Local 375, the Civil Service Technical Guild.

0.25 linear feet; in one manuscript box.

Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

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Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

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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...

Brueck, Philip

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Civil Service Technical Guild

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The Civil Service Technical Guild was organized in 1937 as Council 6 of the Civil Service Forum by three engineers, Henry F. Cunningham, William F. Elliot, and George Ellenoff. Their first activity was a protest in Albany against subcontracting--"farming out," and the Buckley Law (1937) repealed a provision in the new New York City charter which required farming out of large projects. In 1948 the Guild disaffiliated from the Civil Service Forum and was independent until 1951 when it merged with ...

Lurkis, Alexander

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Alexander Lurkis was a civil engineer and original member of the Civil Service Technical Guild, founded in 1937. From 1956-1958 Lurkis was president of AFSCME Local 375, the Civil Service Technical Guild. From the guide to the Alexander Lurkis Photographs, circa 1938-1957, undated, (Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archive) ...