Royal Industrial Union Records. undated, 1966-1972.

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Royal Industrial Union Records. undated, 1966-1972.

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Union that represented workers at the Royal Typewriter Company in Hartford, Connecticut. Records consist of index cards of information created by the union about workers for a strike in 1967 and dues paid by members.

Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Center.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6332542

Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Center.

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The Royal Typewriter Company was founded in 1906 by Thomas Fortune Ryan and E.B. Hess in Hartford, Connecticut, and the company quickly became one of the leading producers of office machinery. At some point the plant was unionized and represented by the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, Local 265. In 1948 the workers voted to replace the union with the United Auto Workers, AFL-CIO, Local 937. In 1965, Litton Industries acquired Royal Typewriter and in January 1972 announce...

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