Boeing strike : Seattle, Washington collection, 1948.

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Boeing strike : Seattle, Washington collection, 1948.

The scrapbook, predominately of newspaper clippings from the Seattle Times, Seattle Post-Intelligence, and the Militant from April 29th through September 21st 1948, records the strike between the International Association of Machinists (IAM) Lodge 751 and Boeing Aircraft Company in Seattle, WA.

.2 cubic ft.

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Boeing Aircraft Company

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International Association of Machinists. Aeronautical Industrial District Lodge 751

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Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation employees created International Association of Machinists Lodge 776 at the company plant in Fort Worth, Texas in 1942. Aeronautical Industrial District Lodge No. 776 consists of three sections, 776-A, 776-B, and 776-C, each representing a different work shift. The union unofficially struck in the fall of 1945, and officially in the spring of 1946, due to ongoing resistance by the company to union demands during the transition from war production to peacet...