Howard Nelson Porter papers, 1936-1952 (inclusive), [microform].
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Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers of North America
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The Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers (AAISTW) was an early steelworkers labor organization, which represented primarily English-speaking, white skilled workers. It formed in 1876, lost membership during strikes in the 1880s, and regained strength after joining the newly formed American Federation of Labor in 1887. By the early 1890s it had about 24,000 workers and it played a central role in coordinated strike efforts during the Homestead steel strike, one of the most prol...
United Steelworkers of America
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Porter, Howard Nelson.
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Howard N. Porter was born in 1902 in Sandy City, Kentucky. At age 15 he went to work in a steel mill in Ashland, Kentucky. Porter helped organize steel workers into the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers (AFL) and in 1936 helped lead the successful fight to switch the union's affiliation to the CIO. He continued as a union organizer with the United Steel Workers until his retirement in 1967. Porter died in Columbus, Ohio in 1972. From the description of Howard Ne...
