Gilbert Jonas Papers 1956-1969

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Gilbert Jonas Papers 1956-1969

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The Gilbert Jonas Company, a public relations firm founded in 1962, specialized in publicity work for trade unions, in particular public employees in New York City and New York state. The firm’s chief client, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Workers, under the leadership of Jerry Wurf, hired the company to publicize organizing campaigns among New York City welfare workers and New York State public employees (including mental health care workers and police and corrections officers). The collection includes publicity materials produced by the firm, background files and clipping files, dating mostly from the 1960s.

2.0 linear feet; (2 boxes)

Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6331823

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...

Gilbert Jonas Company

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Public relations firm, founded in 1962 by Gilbert Jonas, specializing in fund raising for nonprofit organizations and civil rights and public interest causes. From the description of Gilbert Jonas Company records, 1947-1995 (bulk 1968-1995). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70979765 ...

Wurf, Jerry, 1919-

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Labor leader, of New York, N.Y., and Washington, D.C.; d. 1981. From the description of Papers, 1936-1982. (Wayne State University). WorldCat record id: 28418792 ...

AFSCME

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Charter granted 1936; full name: American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees. From the description of Office of the president collection, 1927-1962. (Wayne State University). WorldCat record id: 28419205 From the description of Office of the secretary-treasurer collection, 1926-1968. (Wayne State University). WorldCat record id: 28419214 ...

AFSCME. District Council 50 (N.Y.).

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Gotbaum, Victor, 1921-2015

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Victor H. Gotbaum (September 5, 1921 – April 5, 2015) was an American labor leader. From 1965 to 1987, he was president of AFSCME District Council 37 (DC37), the largest municipal union in New York City. Gotbaum was born in Brooklyn, New York. He married his first wife, Sarah, in August 1943. He fought in World War II, attended Brooklyn College and the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, and took his first union job as assistant director of the Amalgamated Meat ...

Jonas, Gilbert

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The collection includes a variety of materials related to the public relations work of the Gilbert Jonas Company for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), and in particular for AFSCME District Council 37 (New York City public employees), and District Council 50 (New York State public employees). Jonas had a long career in the public relations field in New York City. Born in 1930, he began work in public relations in 1955. He served in the Peace C...