Seymour, Earl papers, 1971-1999.

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Seymour, Earl papers, 1971-1999.

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Personal papers of United Rubber Workers Local 164 member and office holder, Earl Seymour. Consists of personal meeting notes from Local meetings and meetings with Pirelli-Armstrong Tire Company and Titan Tire Company officials. Most records date from 1980-1995. Included are court documents, benefits information, and negotiations from the local union. Features material related to Local 164's labor disputes with Pirelli-Armstrong and Titan Tire Company, including July-August 1994 strike.

2.8 linear ft. (7 archives boxes).

Iowa State Historical Society

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Armstrong Rubber Company

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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...

Titan Tire Corporation.

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Pirelli-Armstrong Tire Corporation.

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United Rubber, Cork, Linoleum, and Plastic Workers of America. Local 164.

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Seymour, Earl.

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Earl Seymour was born on the family farm in Prole, Iowa, December 10, 1938. He took a job at Armstrong Tire Company in Des Moines in 1964, where he worked as a stocker, tread hauler, and tire builder. He held several offices in Local 164 before being elected president. Seymour served as president from 1983-89 and 1992-1995. After his third term as president ended he went to work on the State of Iowa Employment Appeals Board in 1995. From the description of Seymour, Earl papers, 1971-...