Guide to the Sidney Jonas Papers, 1934-1938

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Guide to the Sidney Jonas Papers, 1934-1938

1934-1938

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Sidney Jonas, a labor union organizer, began his career by organizing shoe-workers. In 1934, he was appointed as a fieldworker for the United Shoe and Leather Workers Union. In 1936, United Automobile Workers (UAW-CIO) president, Homer Martin, appointed Jonas as his personal representative and director of the Northeast Region of the UAW-CIO. Jonas worked in this capacity until 1938. The collection consists of correspondence, clippings detailing Jonas' work as an organizer, minutes of the Committee for Industrial Organization Convention in Boston (1937) and the North Jersey Council for Industrial Organization, and a script for a theatrical production.

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