Records, 1941-1952.

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Records, 1941-1952.

Chiefly correspondence of William Harrison Crawford (b. 1888) and of R.E. Starnes (b. 1915), officials of the United Steelworkers of America, District 35 (C.I.O.), relating to support for labor unions; grievances; labor legislation; Local Union No. 2401; the Atlantic Steel Company, Atlanta, Ga.; the Atlanta Industrial Union Council; the Georgia State Industrial Union Council; the National Labor Relations Board; the Regional War Labor Board; the Office of Price Administration; and instructions from the United Steelworkers of America. Includes a volume of specimen examples of job descriptions and classifications.

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United States. National Labor Relations Board

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After the first National Labor Relations Board was functionally abolished by the Supreme Court decision invalidating the National Industrial Recovery Act, May 27, 1935, a new National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) was established as an independent agency by the National Labor Relations (Wagner) Act (NLRA) (49 Stat. 195), dated July 5, 1935. The Supreme Court in 1937 declared the Board constitutional and sustained Congress’s power to regulate employers whose operations affected interstate commerce...

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...

United States. Office of Price Administration

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Doris Razook lived in Savannah, Georgia. From the description of Doris Razook ration book, 1943. (Georgia Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 166147794 During World War II the Office of Price Administration (OPA) was the government agency that rationed most consumer goods and regulated their prices. Some of the rationed items included, tires, cars, gas, coffee, meats, and other food stuffs. OPA was in place for the duration of the war and continued operations until 1947...

United Steelworkers of America. Local Union No. 2401.

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Crawford, William Harrison, b. 1888.

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United Steelworkers of America. District 36G

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The Committee for Industrial Organization was founded in 1935 within the American Federation of Labor as a means of gaining new union members in a changing economy. The Steelworkers Organizing Committee was formed in 1936 as the body that would specifically target the organization of steelworkers. After a successful organizing campaign, the United Steelworkers of America was founded in 1942 at a meeting between SWOC and the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers. The union became...

Starnes, R. E., 1915-

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Atlanta Industrial Union Council (Atlanta, Ga.)

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Atlantic Steel Company

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The Atlantic Steel Company was chartered in 1901 as the Atlanta Steel Hoop Company to manufacture steel ties for bailing cotton and hoops for binding barrels of rosin. Lacking a local source for the steel ties and binds used to prepare these products for shipment, eight Atlanta entrepreneurs formed the company. The founders were Dr. Abner W. Calhoun, George W. Connors, Charles E. Currier, John N. Goddard, John K. Ottley, J. Carroll Payne, Samuel T. Weyman, and Frank Hawkins. In 1906...

Georgia State Industrial Union Council.

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