Records, 1934-1968.

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Records, 1934-1968.

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Records consisting of intermittent files of publications, photographs, handouts, minutes, constitutions, and other printed materials. The material relates to the department's educational function and documents the history of the union, affiliation with the Congress of Industrial Organizations, organizing efforts in the 1940s, the controversy in various states concerning right-to-work legislation, the 1954 Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company strike, and especially the 1957-1958 O'Sullivan Rubber Corporation strike in Winchester, W. Va. Materials include a union songbook and a transcript of an interview with John D. House, the first president of Goodyear Local 2. Disc recordings include union songs sung by Joe Glazer.

1.2 c.f. (3 archives boxes) and2 disc recordings; plusadditions of 20 photographs.

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.)

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The Committee for Industrial Organization was formed by the presidents of eight international unions in 1935. The presidents of these unions were dissatisfied with the American Federation of Labor's unwillingness to commit itself to a program of organizing industrial unions. In 1936, the A.F. of L. suspended the ten unions which proceeded to organize an independent federation, the Congress of Industrial Organizations. The CIO subsequently became the A.F. of L.'s chief rival for the leadership of...

Glazer, Joe

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House, John Davis, 1904-

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O'Sullivan Rubber Corporation.

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Goodyear tire and rubber company

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Goodyear put pneumatic tires on 1917 Packard trucks for the first interstate trucking run between its Akron tire factory and Boston to prove that air-filled tires could make long-haul trucking possible. From the description of Wingfoot Express press kit, [ca. 1984-1987]. (Ohio Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 41001463 ...