International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers records, 1946-1982 (bulk 1946-1967)

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International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers records, 1946-1982 (bulk 1946-1967)

The collection consists of wage policy and bargaining materials, union publications, reports, a charter book, general files and correspondence. Materials document negotiations, strikes, conspiracy allegations, settlements, contract language justification, wage inequities, and information on the 1967 merger with the United Steelworkers of America.

4 cubic feet + 7 microfilm reels.

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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...

International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers

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The International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers (IUMMSW) emerged in 1916 from the more radical Western Federation of Miners (WFM) which organized mine and copper industry workers. IUMMSW reasserted its presence in the western mines, most successfully during the five-month strike in Butte and Anaconda (Montana) in 1934. A founding member of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), the IUMMSW was expelled in 1950 because of the Union's perceived Communist ties. In 1967, the IUMMS...