Pennsylvania AFL-CIO records, 1899-1988.

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Pennsylvania AFL-CIO records, 1899-1988.

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This Pennsylvania labor collection includes subject and correspondence files, financial records, convention proceedings, books and periodicals, photographs, scrapbooks, and a broadcast transcription disc. Among the correspondents are President Harry Boyer, Vice-President Michael Johnson, Treasurer and Vice-President Robert McIntyre, Secretary Harry Block, Frank McGrath, James Mahoney, and Julia Maietta. Approximately one third of these documents date from the years 1943 to 1955, when Boyer served as secretary and then president of the Pennsylvania CIO, an immediate predecessor of the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO.

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Pennsylvania State University Libraries

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Pennsylvania State University Libraries

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Maietta, Julia L. (Julia Luigia), 1909-1994

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Julia Luigia Maietta (1909-1994), of Curwensville, Pa., worked in a shirt factory in her hometown, and became active in the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America union. She served as a National Representative for the ACWA and as Field Service Coordinator for the AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education (COPE). Maietta ran in and won the Democratic primary for the 22nd Congressional District but lost the election in 1948 and 1958. Maietta remained active in electoral politics and government at ...

Pennsylvania AFL-CIO

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The Pennsylvania AFL-CIO was formed in 1959 after the merger of the parent national organizations. It brought together the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor, formed in 1902, and the Pennsylvania CIO Council, formed in the late 1930s. The Pennsylvania AFL-CIO was responsible for protecting workers' rights with regard to collective bargaining, conducting member political education and training programs, monitoring legislative politics in Harrisburg and Washington, D.C., and endorsing candidates tha...

Johnson, Michael, 1912-1995

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Michael Johnson, born Michael Sussman, began as an organizer for the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) (1934-1955), becoming a labor education director (1955-1965) before joining the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO and the Pennsylvania Public Utilities Commission. From the description of Michael Johnson papers, 1950-1995. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 279070208 ...

Boyer, Harry

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Block, Harry, 1908-1988

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Secretary of the Pennsylvania state AFL-CIO. From the description of Oral history interview with Harry Block, 1967 September 25. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 31484759 Harry Block was financial secretary of United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers (UE) local 18368 (1933-1936), vice-president of the UE (1936-1946), president of its successor, the International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers (IUE; 1949-1972), and secretary-t...