Harold Rasmussen scrapbooks, badges, and buttons collection, 1933-1970.

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Harold Rasmussen scrapbooks, badges, and buttons collection, 1933-1970.

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This collection from the steel industry labor official Harold Rasmussen includes a scrapbook of newspaper clippings on the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC); a photographic scrapbook of individuals, buildings, strikes, conventions, and other subjects pertaining to the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, SWOC, the Congress of Industrial Organizations, and the United Steelworkers of America; and badges and buttons from these organizations.

1.93 cubic feet.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7519426

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United Steelworkers of America. District 30

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Steel Workers Organizing Committee (U.S.)

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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...