Steelworkers documents from Palmer, Mass., 1944-1946.

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Steelworkers documents from Palmer, Mass., 1944-1946.

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This collection consists of an application to the National War Labor Board for a wage rate adjustment on behalf of Wickwire Spencer Steel Company, New York, New York, in connection with their plant in Palmer, Massachusetts, in affiliation with United Steelworkers of America, Massachusetts Chapter, dated 1944. Also includes a memo from the R. L. Leary, Sheet Metal Workers International Association Local #63 to Peter Evasius of United Steel Workers America, Palmer, Massachusetts, regarding the rating of sheet metal worker Thomas Moriarty.

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Wickwire Spencer Steel Company

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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...

Sheet Metal Workers International Association. Local 63 (Springfield, Mass.)

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United States. National War Labor Board (1942-1945)

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The National War Labor Board, a tri-partite body established in 1942 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, was charged with acting as an arbitration tribunal in labor-management dispute cases, thereby preventing work stoppages which might hinder the war effort. It was also responsible for determining wage adjustments in accordance with anti-inflationary wage stabilization criteria and policies. From the description of Series 1. General case files, 1913-1946, bulk 1942-1946. (Cornell Un...

Evasius, Peter

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