UE News photograph collection, 1933-1998.

Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969

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Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) was leader of the Allied forces in Europe in World War II, commander of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), and the thirty-fourth president of the United States, from January 20, 1953, to January 20, 1961. Eisenhower was born on October 14, 1890, in Denison, Texas, the third son of David Jacob Eisenhower, a railroad worker, and Ida Elizabeth Stover. In 1891, the family moved to Abilene, Kansas, where David accepted a job at a local creamery run by ...

Chavez, Cesar, 1927-1993

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Cesar Chavez (b. March 31, 1927, Yuma, AZ – d. April 23, 1993, San Luis, AZ) was an American labor leader and civil rights activist who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (later the United Farm Workers union, UFW) in 1962. Originally a Mexican American farm worker, Chavez became the best known Latino American civil rights activist, and was strongly promoted by the American labor movement, which was eager to enroll Hispanic members. His public-relations approac...

Darin, Margaret.

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Wright, Fred, 1907-1984.

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Fred Wright (1907-1984) was one of America's most renowned labor cartoonists. His career lasted from 1939 until his death in 1984. He is best known for his work as a staff cartoonist for the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE). In addition to his cartoons illustrating the union's newspaper, the UE News, he designed leaflets, strike placards and animated organizing cartoons to contribute to the American Labor Movement. Wright sold his first cartoon to the National Maritim...

Jandreau, Leonard.

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Newell, Charles J.

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Charles Newell was Business Agent of United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America [UE] Local 601 (Westinghouse Electric Corporation, East Pittsburgh) in the late 1930s and early 1940s. He was born in Ireland circa 1906. After emigrating to America, he attended and was graduated from the University of Washington. He also trained and worked as a machinist and toolmaker. Newell's connection with the UE went back to the union's earliest days. He was an organizer for UE in Bridgeport, Conne...

Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963

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W. E. B. Du Bois was an American sociologist, socialist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor. Educated at Fisk University, he did graduate work at the University of Berlin and Harvard, where he was the first African American to earn a doctorate. Du Bois became a professor of history, sociology and economics at Atlanta University. Due to his contributions in the African-American community he was seen as a member of a Black elite that supported some aspects ...

Westinghouse electric corporation

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United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America. Convention

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Murray, Philip, 1886-1952

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Philip Murray was one of the most important American labor leaders of the twentieth century. As president of the Steelworkers Organizing Committee (SWOC), the United Steelworkers of America (USWA), and the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), he played a pivotal role in the creation of industrial unions as well as the utilization of federal government support in the growth of unions in the United States. Philip Murray (May 25, 1886-November 9, 1952) was born in Blantyre, Scotland, on May ...

Quinn, Thomas J.

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Thomas J. Quinn was born August 10, 1917 in Pittsburgh, Pa.From 1940 to 1954 he worked as an arc welder at the East Pittsburgh plant of Westinghouse. In 1940 Quinn joined the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE). From 1944-47 he served as a section steward in UE local 601 at the Westinghouse plant in East Pittsburgh. Quinn ran for the Pennsylvania Legislature on the Progressive Party ticket headed by Henry Wallace in 1948. By 1949, Quinn's active participation in the left...

Matles, James J.

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Radio corporation of America

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Philadelphia Storage Battery Company.

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United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America

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District 7 of the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America (UE) consisted of locals throughout Ohio and are now part of the UE's Eastern Region. From the description of UE National Office records relating to District 7 and District 7 locals, 1936-1990s. (University of Pittsburgh). WorldCat record id: 767644242 District 5 of the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America (UE) consisted of locals throughout Canada. From the description...

Scribner, David

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Fitzmaurice, David.

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General Electric Company

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Founded 1892. Corporate interests include: Broadcasting; Electric Components; Household Appliances; Lighting Equipment; Motors; Telecommunications; Electromedical Industry. From the description of Technical records. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84865339 Founded 1892. From the description of General Electric Company in Camden, N.J., collection, 1878-1989. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70979711 Schenectady, NY. From the description of Electr...

Carey, James B. (James Bain)

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James Barron Carey (1911-1973) was the president of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America. From the description of Autobiography, and labor union communists, 1938-1968. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 36028118 Labor executive. From the description of Reminiscences of James Barron Carey : oral history, 1958. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309732165 ...

Carter, Jimmy, 1924-

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Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.), thirty-ninth president of the United States, was born on October 1, 1924, in Plains, Georgia, and grew up in the nearby community of Archery. His father, James Earl Carter, Sr., was a farmer and businessman; his mother, Lillian Gordy, a registered nurse. He was educated in the Plains public schools, attended Georgia Southwestern College and the Georgia Institute of Technology, and received a B.S. from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1946. In the Navy he became a ...

Emspak, Julius, 1904-1962

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Union official. From the description of Reminiscences of Julius Emspak : oral history, 1959. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309734515 ...

McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957

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Kennedy, James T., Jr

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Resident of Northfield Township, Washtenaw County, Mich. From the description of James Kennedy correspondence, 1837-1848. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 85778732 Kennedy was the chair of the Textile Manufacturing Division at the Lowell Technological Institute, Lowell, Mass. (later the University of Lowell and now the University of Massachusetts at Lowell). From the description of [Correspondence]. 1954. (American Textile History Museum Library). Wo...