Papers, 1937-1979.

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Papers, 1937-1979.

Correspondence, negotiations for contracts, copies of contracts, organizing documents, strike leaflets, and other union documents, together with transcripts of oral history interviews of Metro and her daughter, Phyllis Foley, also a union official; ephemera; and some personal correspondence. Includes material relating to the hotel strikes of 1937 and 1941-1942. Correspondents include Hugo Ernst, labor official who represented culinary workers.

3 boxes.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7260275

California historical society

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Foley, Phyllis, 1922-

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Phyllis Foley was the financial secretary-treasurer of Locals 283 and 2 of the Hotel & Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Union in San Francisco in the mid-1970s. From the description of Phyllis Foley oral history, 1979. (California Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 613642804 Biographical Information Phyllis Foley was born on September 18, 1922. She moved with her family to San Francisco in the 1...

Metro, Bertha, 1899-1979

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Metro was a trade-union official, of San Francisco, Calif., who organized hotel maids. She represented Local 283 of what later became the Hotel & Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Union. From the description of Bertha Metro papers, 1936-1979. (California Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 122288013 Trade-union official, of San Francisco, Calif., who organized hotel maids; the union she represented was last called Hotel, Motel, and Club Service Worke...

Hotel & Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Union. Local 9 (San Francisco, Calif.)

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Chartered in 1891 by the American Federation of Labor, the Hotel & Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Union has represented culinary workers in San Francisco since the turn of the twentieth century. In the 1970s, a series of mergers consolidated the organization of the Hotel & Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Union in San Francisco. In the early 1970s, Locals 30 and 48, representing San Francisco waiters and waitresses, were merged, forming Local 9. Then, ...

Ernst, Hugo, 1876-1954

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