Clyde Johnson Papers, 1930-1990

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Clyde Johnson Papers, 1930-1990

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Clyde Johnson was a union organizer, business agent, and writer. The collection includes scrapbooks, clippings, correspondence, manuscript books, interviews, and other items concerning Clyde Johnson's involvement with various unions, most affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations. Included are materials related to organizing campaigns and strikes conducted by Johnson for the Sharecroppers' Union in Alabama, 1935-1937; the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers of America in Colorado and Texas, 1937-1941; and the Oil Workers' International Union in Texas, especially in Baytown, 1941-1943. There are also many items concerning the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, Local 550, Oakland, Cal., for which Johnson was business agent from 1961 to 1966; a few personal letters to Johnson and his wife Anne; tapes of interviews with Johnson; and manuscript drafts of Johnson's books, Organize or Die and Millmen 550.

4000; 27.0

eng,

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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Johnson, Clyde, b. 1908.

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Clyde Johnson, union organizer, business agent, and writer. From the description of Clyde Johnson papers, 1930-1990. WorldCat record id: 30485702 Clyde Johnson was born in 1908 in Proctor, Minn., a railroad town outside Duluth. In 1929, after Johnson had completed two years of junior college, layoffs preceding the Great Depression sent him east in search of work. He was hired by the Western Electric Company of New Jersey as a junior engineer. He also attended ni...