George Medrick papers, 1922-1964.

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George Medrick papers, 1922-1964.

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This collection of personal papers, photographs, diaries, news clippings, and scrapbooks documents Medrick's career with the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) and the United Steelworkers of America (USWA). The collection includes two diaries, one of which covers the Bituminous Coal Strike of 1927, eight scrapbooks (1938-1961), photographs of George Medrick (1922), correspondence (1936-1964), documents regarding the Commonwealth vs. Medrick (1941), newspaper clippings and programs (1947-1964) and records documenting the Steel Strike of 1959. His diary traces his role in the 1927 strike activity from March 24 to November 14, 1927.

2 cubic feet.

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United Steelworkers of America

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The United Steelworkers of America (USWA) was established 22 May 1942, by a convention of representatives from the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers (AAISTW) and the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC) after an intensive organizing initiative by the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in the 1930s. After mergers in 2005, it was renamed United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union (USW...

Medrick, George, 1893-1974

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United mine workers of America

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