Clyde Johnson papers, 1930-1990.

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Clyde Johnson papers, 1930-1990.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30485702

Scrapbooks, clippings, correspondence, manuscript books, interviews, and other items concerning Johnson's involvement with various unions, most affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations. Included are materials related to organizing campaigns and strikes conducted by Johnson for the Sharecroppers' Union in Alabama, 1935-1937; the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers of America in Colorado and Texas, 1937-1941; and the Oil Workers' International Union in Texas, especially in Baytown, 1941-1943. There are also many items concerning the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, Local 550, Oakland, Cal., for which Johnson was business agent from 1961 to 1966; a few personal letters to Johnson and his wife Anne; tapes of interviews with Johnson; and manuscript drafts of Johnson's books, Organize or Die and Millmen 550.

About 4000 items (27.0 linear feet).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.)

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The Committee for Industrial Organization was formed by the presidents of eight international unions in 1935. The presidents of these unions were dissatisfied with the American Federation of Labor's unwillingness to commit itself to a program of organizing industrial unions. In 1936, the A.F. of L. suspended the ten unions which proceeded to organize an independent federation, the Congress of Industrial Organizations. The CIO subsequently became the A.F. of L.'s chief rival for the leadership of...

United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America

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Founded in 1881, the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America (UBC) represents and offers training to carpenters, cabinetmakers, millwrights, piledrivers, lathers, framers, floor layers, roofers, drywallers, and workers in forest-products and related industries. From the guide to the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America Records Unprocessed mss. 2011-116., 1953-2002, (Special Collections, The University of Texas at Arlington Library) The Unite...

United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers of America

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The United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers of America (UCAPAWA) was founded in 1937 as part of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) as a way to address concerns of agricultural industry workers during the Depression. UCAPAWA was particularly strong among Mexican and Mexican-American workers and was one of the first union to allow women to hold high-level offices. Several regional or state-level unions became affiiliated with UCAPAWA, among them the Oklahoma Tenant Fa...

Johnson, Clyde, b. 1908.

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Clyde Johnson, union organizer, business agent, and writer. From the description of Clyde Johnson papers, 1930-1990. WorldCat record id: 30485702 Clyde Johnson was born in 1908 in Proctor, Minn., a railroad town outside Duluth. In 1929, after Johnson had completed two years of junior college, layoffs preceding the Great Depression sent him east in search of work. He was hired by the Western Electric Company of New Jersey as a junior engineer. He also attended ni...

Oil Workers' International Union

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An NLRB case involving the expansion of the area of compulsory bargainable issues. The company had unilaterally promulgated a Stock Purchase Plan and had refused to bargain with the union over it, claiming that is not encompassed by the terms "wages" or "other conditions of employment" within the meaning of the National Labor Relations Act, but is merely an incentive to employees voluntarily to invest in company stock. Upon charges of unfair labor practices filed by the ...

Johnson, Anne Agron.

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Share Croppers Union

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