Anthony H. Lorditch papers, 1941-1949.

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Anthony H. Lorditch papers, 1941-1949.

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The Anthony H. Lorditch papers focuses on the organization of the steel workers in the Franklin, Johnstown, and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, areas from 1940 to 1949. It includes correspondence to and from the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), congressmen, the Pennsylvania Industrial Union Council and United Steelworkers of America; form letters from Johnstown Division of the Steelworkers Organizing Committee (SWOC) and to individual unions; meeting minutes and memoranda; the first written agreement between SWOC and Bethlehem Steel, 1941; The Franklin Steelworker, the official monthly voice of Franklin Local 2635, July 1948-July 1949. [February 1949 missing], and pamphlets such as rules and procedures for local unions, Do More and You Get More, Save Small Steel Every Worker a Voter and Where Your Dues Dollar Goes. The collection also features listings and records of locals and plants in the Johnstown area, newspaper clippings of the Johnstown Flood Free Project and Lorditch's ribbons, buttons, SWOC membership, ID and dues cards. A highlight of the collection is a telegram from Philip Murray to Lorditch in December of 1942, advising that a "substantial number of members of local union 2635" are striking and that the "strike is contrary to policy of your organization and violates understanding which officers of your union have with President of United States." Murray requested an immediate return to work. A small note in the collection indicates Lorditch's SWOC salary for the year of 1941 was $56.

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Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.)

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Lorditch, Anthony H.

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Murray, Philip, 1886-1952

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