Bertha Metro papers, 1936-1979.

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Bertha Metro papers, 1936-1979.

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 ft.)

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SNAC Resource ID: 6677656

California historical society

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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...

Metro, Bertha, 1899-1979

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Metro was a trade-union official, of San Francisco, Calif., who organized hotel maids. She represented Local 283 of what later became the Hotel & Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Union. From the description of Bertha Metro papers, 1936-1979. (California Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 122288013 Trade-union official, of San Francisco, Calif., who organized hotel maids; the union she represented was last called Hotel, Motel, and Club Service Worke...

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, ...