United Telegraph Workers Records Bulk, 1940-1986 1928-1996, (Bulk 1940-1986)

Beckstead, D. J.

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Commercial Telegraphers' Union of America

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American Communications Association

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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...

Association Western Union Employees.

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Western Union Telegraph Company

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The bark Golden Gate and clipper ship Nightingale were both involved in the Western Union Telegraph Expedition to British Columbia, Alaska and Russia to survey areas where the Western Union Telegraph Company planned to construct a telegraph line linking America and Europe. The line was never completed. Charles S. Bulkley was Engineer-in-Chief and Charles M. Scammon was Chief of Marine. The bark Golden Gate was the flagship of the expedition from June 1865 to March 1866, after which the clipper s...

Hageman, E. L.

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