Boot and Shoe Workers Union, Local 149 (Wilkes-Barre, Pa.) records, 1937-1965

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Boot and Shoe Workers Union, Local 149 (Wilkes-Barre, Pa.) records, 1937-1965

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The collection includes constitutions (1961, 1965) of the Boot and Shoe Workers Union, an organization devoted to skilled craftsmen, as well as an earlier constitution (1937) of its rival, the United Shoe Workers of America, which was open to all shoe workers. There are also agreements between Local 149 and several manufacturing companies (1947-1965); proposals and pamphlets on union group insurance (1949), labor-management relations (1959), and Pennsylvania savings bonds; newspaper clippings on a strike and lawsuit involving Local 149 (undated [circa 1960]); and preprinted local union forms for grievances, membership, and reinstatement.

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United Shoe Workers of America

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Boot and Shoe Workers Union. Local 149 (Wilkes-Barre, Pa.)

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In 1895 skilled craftsmen in the shoe industry withdrew from the Knights of Labor to form the Boot and Shoe Workers Union in affiliation with the American Federation of Labor. The union merged with the Retail Clerks International Union in 1977. Two years later the Retail Clerks merged with the Amalgamated Meat Cutters to form the United Food and Commercial Workers, which have continued to oversee boot and shoe workers into the twenty-first century. From the description of Boot and Sh...

Boot and Shoe Workers' Union

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