Clinton S. Golden papers, 1858-1961 (bulk 1933-1961).

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Clinton S. Golden papers, 1858-1961 (bulk 1933-1961).

The collection contains personal and family correspondence, published and unpublished writings, reports, speeches, clippings, booklets, pamphlets, and collective bargaining agreements. Includes memoranda and correspondence pertaining to steel cases before the National Labor Relations Board and other papers relating to: the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers of America, the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, the United Steelworkers of America, the steel industry and trade, the American Federation of Labor, and the Congress of Industrial Organizations. Typescript affidavits and evidence compiled for the Jones and Laughlin Steel Case document steel management's unfair labor practices and steel labor conditions in Aliquippa, Pa. during the depression. The collection also contains correspondence, business reports, and other papers documenting Golden's activities with the American Mission for Aid to Greece, including the period in which it was part of the Economic Cooperation Administration. There are also reports of the Economic Stabilization Agency. Principal correspondents include: Philip Murray, Heber Blankenhorn, Harold J. Ruttenberg, and Joseph Scanlon.

15 cubic feet.

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Golden, Clinton S. (Clinton Strong), 1888-1961

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Clinton Strong Golden was born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania on November 16, 1888. When his father died in 1900, Golden went to work in an iron mine and thus his formal education was ended. He apprenticed as a machinist, but later worked several years as a railroad fireman and became active in the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers. He was a full-time representative for the International Association of Machinists, 1919-1930. He served on the board of directors of Brookwood Labor Colle...

United States. Economic Cooperation Administration. Mission to Greece

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United Steelworkers of America

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The United Steelworkers of America (USWA) was established 22 May 1942, by a convention of representatives from the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers (AAISTW) and the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC) after an intensive organizing initiative by the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in the 1930s. After mergers in 2005, it was renamed United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union (USW...

Blankenhorn, Heber, 1884-1956

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Consultant to United States War Department. From the description of Psychological warfare reports : combat propaganda in Africa, Italy, United Kingdom and France, 1943-1944 : typescript, 1946. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122384948 Labor journalist. Industrial economist. Chairman of the first and second National Labor Boards. From the description of Heber Blankenhorn papers, 1906-1967. (Wayne State University, Archives of Labor & Urban). WorldCat record id:...

United States. American Mission for Aid to Greece

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United States. Economic Stabilization Agency

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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...

Ruttenberg, Harold J.

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Harold J. Ruttenberg (1914- ) was research director for the Steel Workers Organizing Committee and the United Steelworkers of America, and an industrialist of Pittsburgh, Pa. From the description of Harold J. Ruttenberg papers, 1933-1967 (bulk 1933-1963). (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 122489609 Harold J. Ruttenberg began his career working with the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, which became the United Steelworkers of America (USW). He l...

Steel Workers Organizing Committee (U.S.)

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Scanlon, Joseph N. (Joseph Norbert), 1899-1956

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Joseph Scanlon was born to Irish immigrants in Cleveland, Ohio in 1899. He served with the Navy in the early 1920s before being trained as an accountant. His experiences with industrial relations began when he worked as a cost accountant for a small Ohio steel company. Scanlon quit this position to tend an open hearth at the mill and in 1936 became a volunteer union organizer for the C.I.O. Steel Workers Organizing Committee (S.W.O.C.). By 1938 he was president of S.W.O.C. Local 169 in Ohio. Whi...

Murray, Philip, 1886-1952

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Philip Murray was one of the most important American labor leaders of the twentieth century. As president of the Steelworkers Organizing Committee (SWOC), the United Steelworkers of America (USWA), and the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), he played a pivotal role in the creation of industrial unions as well as the utilization of federal government support in the growth of unions in the United States. Philip Murray (May 25, 1886-November 9, 1952) was born in Blantyre, Scotland, on May ...