Elmer Fern Cope. Papers.

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Elmer Fern Cope. Papers.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/180689572

The Elmer F. Cope Papers consists of correspondence (50% of collection), reports (20% of collection), newspaper clippings (20% of the collection), and other items (10% of the collection). The other items include bills, travel brochures, tickets, transportation schedules, greeting cards, business cards, appointment books, and calendars. The collection provides substantial information on Cope's working years, but contains scanty material on his early years. The Elmer F. Cope Papers contain information on Cope's childhood, schooling, and career. His high-school and college educational experiences (1919-1930) are documented in boxes 1 to 5. The emphasis on his years (1929-1930) at Brookwood Labor College and his association with A.J. Muste. Material covering period from 1929-1934, in boxes 6 to 11, contains correspondence and newspaper clippings on such labor-related subjects as the Empire Steel Corporation strike of 1931, Father James R. Cox's "Jobless March" in 1932, and the Steel Strike in Warren, Ohio of 1932.

54 microfilm reels + guide.

Cornell University Library

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Cope, Elmer, F. (Elmer Fern), 1903-1965.

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Elmer Fern Cope was born July 24, 1903 at Ellwood, Indiana. Besides his political leadership Cope worked in other areas to improve labor's image in the community, to increase and improve labor education, to strengthen the Department of Church and Economic Life of the National Council of Churches, and to complete the merger of AFL and CIO agencies in Ohio. In May, 1963, he announced his resignation of his Ohio AFL-CIO office for reasons of health. From the description of Elmer Fern Co...