Shelton Tappes papers, 1949-1970.

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Shelton Tappes papers, 1949-1970.

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Correspondence, clippings, newsletters, speeches, and other materials relating to Mr. Tappes' activities with UAW Ford Local 600. Important subjects are: UAW-Ford Motor Company strike, 1949, Local 600 Production Foundry Unit, and World War II and the UAW.

1 linear ft. (1 storage box)

Wayne State University. Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs

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Wayne State University. Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs

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Tappes, Shelton, 1911-1991

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Shelton Tappes was born in Omaha, Nebraska on March 27, 1911 and came to Detroit in the late 1920s. A UAW member since 1937, Mr. Tappes was particularly active in the organization of the Production Foundry Unit at the Ford Rouge plant in 1941. He was a part-time organizer for the Foundry Unit, the first Foundry Unit chairman, and a member of the negotiating committee that secured the UAW's first contract with Ford Motor Company in 1941. He served as recording secretary of Local 600 from 1942 thr...

Wayne State University. Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs

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Ford motor company

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When Ford Motor Company was founded in 1903, Alexander Y. Malcolmson was elected the Company's first treasurer, but his assistant James Couzens actually managed financial functions. People holding the position of Ford Motor Company treasurer from 1903 to 1955 included Alexander Y. Malcolmson, 1903-1906; James J. Couzens, 1906-1915; Frank L. Klingensmith, 1915-1921; Edsel B Ford, 1921-1943; B. J. Craig, 1943-1946; and L. E. Briggs, 1946-1955. In 1903, the business office was in a small building o...