Records, ca. 1946-1974.

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Records, ca. 1946-1974.

Records of the union local and its predecessor, the United Packinghouse Workers of America, Local 1, which represented employees of the John Morrell Company plant in Ottumwa until it closed in 1973; plus a few records of Local 1187, which represented workers at Ralston Purina in Ottumwa. Includes minute books; local bulletins, 1954-1973, concerning politics, union elections, community affairs, and work life; and correspondence and subject files, 1945-1973, concerning the Iowa State Federation of Labor and its Committee on Political Education, labor efforts in the 1972 Presidential election, the 1969 strike against Iowa Beef Packers and Neuhoff Packing Company, and contract negotiations. Also includes financial records, 1951-1972; grievance records, 1952-1971; and oral history interviews, some on tape and some as transcripts, 1974, with Virgil Bankson, former chief steward; Frances Calhoon, office steward; Donald Jones; and Earl Richards.

7 reels of microfilm (35 mm) and4 tape recordings.

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United Packinghouse, Food, and Allied Workers. Local 1 (Ottumwa, Iowa)

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Calhoon, Frances.

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Ralston Purina Company

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Saint Louis, MO. From the description of Pamphlets, ca.1932-1934. (College of Physicians of Philadelphia). WorldCat record id: 122584473 ...

United Packinghouse, Food, and Allied Workers. Local 1187 (Ottumwa, Iowa)

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Neuhoff Packing Company.

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John Morrell & Co.

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Richards, Earl Jeffrey.

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Bankson, Virgil.

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Iowa Federation of Labor

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Iowa Beef Packers.

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Jones, Donald E. (Donald Everett), 1923-

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