Kingsport (Tenn.) Press Strike collection, 1961-1967.

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Kingsport (Tenn.) Press Strike collection, 1961-1967.

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The collection consists of records from 1961-1967 pertaining to the 1963 strike against Kingsport Press. Includes correspondence, legal documents, minutes, newsclippings, printed material, and photographs. Materials document the activities of the bookbinders, electrotypers, machinists, printing pressmen and assistants, and typographical unions during the strike. Principal correspondents include strike director Earl Derrick, attorney John S. McLellan, and C.E. Fritschle, Vice President for Industrial Relations for Kingsport Press. The legal documents (1965-1967) consist of testimony, memoranda, and decisions pertaining to the strike. The collection also contains correspondence, newsletters, fliers, rosters, financial reports, and membership cards pertaining to the Allied Kingsport Press Unions (1963-1964) and financial material from the AFL-CIO Tennessee State Labor Council (1961-1963).

.5 linear ft.

Georgia State University

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Georgia State University

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Allied Kingsport Press Unions.

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Kingsport Press.

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Fritschle, C. E.

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AFL-CIO. Tennessee State Labor Council

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The Tennessee Federation of Labor was organized in 1898 and held annual conventions until 1956. In December of 1955, the executive boards of the Tennessee Federation of Labor and the Tennessee State Labor Council CIO agreed to merge and in 1956 formed the AFL-CIO, Tennessee State Labor Council. From the description of Tennessee State Labor Council records : 1937, 1953-1979. (Georgia State University). WorldCat record id: 38477369 ...

McLellan, John S.

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Derrick, Earl.

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