Bertha Metro papers 1936-1973

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Bertha Metro papers 1936-1973

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Correspondence, negotiations for contracts, copies of contracts, organizing documents, strike leaflets, and other union documents, together with transcripts of oral history interviews of Metro and her daughter, Phyllis Foley, also a union official; ephemera; and some personal correspondence. Includes material relating to the hotel strikes of 1937 and 1941-1942. Correspondents include Hugo Ernst, labor official who represented culinary workers.

3 boxes; (1.25 Linear feet)

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California historical society

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SNAC Resource ID: 6654540

California historical society

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Hotel & Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Union. Local 9 (San Francisco, Calif.)

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Chartered in 1891 by the American Federation of Labor, the Hotel & Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Union has represented culinary workers in San Francisco since the turn of the twentieth century. In the 1970s, a series of mergers consolidated the organization of the Hotel & Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Union in San Francisco. In the early 1970s, Locals 30 and 48, representing San Francisco waiters and waitresses, were merged, forming Local 9. Then, ...

Metro, Bertha, 1899-1976

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Biography Bertha Metro was born in England. Her father, a socialist, imbued her with some of his ideals and principles. While still a young girl, the family emmigrated to Canada where her father was killed in a tragic mining accident. In her early teens she went to work to help support the family, eventually obtaining employment at the Empress Hotel in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. After her marriage and the birth of a daugh...

Ernst, Hugo, 1876-1954

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Foley, Phyllis, 1922-

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Phyllis Foley was the financial secretary-treasurer of Locals 283 and 2 of the Hotel & Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Union in San Francisco in the mid-1970s. From the description of Phyllis Foley oral history, 1979. (California Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 613642804 Biographical Information Phyllis Foley was born on September 18, 1922. She moved with her family to San Francisco in the 1...