United Steelworkers of America scrapbooks. [manuscript]. 1933-1970.

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United Steelworkers of America scrapbooks. [manuscript]. 1933-1970.

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Scrapbooks compiled by Harold Rasmussen containing newspaper and magazine clippings, leaflets, photographs and pamphlets about steelworker unions and the U.S. labor movement. Clippings concern organizing campaigns, contract negotiations and signings, strikes, and intra-union affairs. The organizations most frequently mentioned are the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, the United Steel Workers of America, and the Congress of Industrial Organizations. Photographs show picket lines, local union buildings, and union conventions. Scrapbooks reflect the union career of Harold Rasmussen, staff representative of the United Steel Workers of America, District 30.

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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...

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United Steelworkers of America. District 30 (Indianapolis, Ind.).

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Rasmussen, Harold

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Harold Rasmussen was a heater helper in the south Chicago works of Republic Steel and president of Blue Eagle Lodge No.57 of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers. In 1936 he became a staff representative of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC). He was involved in organizing activities for SWOC in the Midwest and the South until July 1942, when he was assigned to District 30 of the newly formed United Steelworkers of America (USWA), headquartered in Indianapolis. Af...