Office of the secretary-treasurer collection, 1926-1968.

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Office of the secretary-treasurer collection, 1926-1968.

Correspondence, charter applications, charters, notices of local renewal, suspension or disbandment, constitutions, telegrams, contract agreements, memoranda, financial materials, and clippings, relating to operation of the union during the incumbency of Arnold S. Zander, president (1935-1961), and Gordon Chapman, secretary-treasurer. Includes materials on Government and Civic Employees Organizing Committee, the CIO public employees union, which became part of AFSCME with AFL-CIO merger in 1955; jurisdictional disputes with other unions and councils; and other union problems. Correspondents include Gordon Chapman, H. Zach Collier, Alva Edward Garey, Roy Kubista, James McCormack, William J. McEntee, George Meany, Walter Reuther, and Jerry Wurf.

84.25 linear ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7260150

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Wurf, Jerry, 1919-

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Labor leader, of New York, N.Y., and Washington, D.C.; d. 1981. From the description of Papers, 1936-1982. (Wayne State University). WorldCat record id: 28418792 ...

Zander, Arnold S. (Arnold Scheuer), 1901-1975

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Organizer and first president of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME). From the description of Arnold Zander papers, 1931-1969. (Wayne State University, Archives of Labor & Urban). WorldCat record id: 32321216 ...

Government and Civic Employees Organizing Committee (U.S.)

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McCormack, James Leo, 1910-

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Computer software industry executive. From the description of Oral history interview with James McCormack, 1984 Feb. 23. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63282986 ...

Collier, H. Zach, 1887-

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Kubista, Roy

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Garey, Alva Edward, 1883-

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Meany, George, 1894-1980

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Labor official; interviewee d.1980. From the description of Reminiscences of George Meany : oral history, 1957. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122587289 President, AFL-CIO, 1955-1980. George Meany (1894-1980) was elected president of the American Federation of Labor (A.F. of L.) in 1952. His efforts to unite his organization with its rival, the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), was successful, and he was ...

Chapman, Gordon Warner, 1907-

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Secretary-Treasurer of AFSCME. From the description of Gordon Chapman papers, 1934-1967. (Wayne State University, Archives of Labor & Urban). WorldCat record id: 32321009 ...

AFSCME

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Charter granted 1936; full name: American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees. From the description of Office of the president collection, 1927-1962. (Wayne State University). WorldCat record id: 28419205 From the description of Office of the secretary-treasurer collection, 1926-1968. (Wayne State University). WorldCat record id: 28419214 ...

Reuther, Walter, 1907-1970

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McEntee, William J. (William Joseph), 1903-

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