United Steelworkers of America, International Executive Board records, 1933-1990.

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United Steelworkers of America, International Executive Board records, 1933-1990.

International Executive Board Records of the United Steelworkers of America (USWA) contain correspondence, inter-office memoranda, committee reports, and affidavits about local union appeals to the International Executive Board, and agendas and reports relating to the IEB and Wage Policy Committee meetings, industry conference transcripts, financial statements, dues collection statistics, and local union resolutions. The records also contain verbatim proceedings transcripts of the IEB meetings from 1942 to 1964. Many of the IEB records include local union appeals in the form of election and nomination challenges and to a lesser extent, charges such as misappropriation of union funds, slander, and allegations of general misconduct. Also included are correspondence, memoranda and meeting agendas for the Wage Policy Committee meetings which determined collective bargaining policy. The IEB proceedings transcripts include topics such as local union appeals, negotiation procedure, mergers, district problems, organizing and the union's public image.

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