Records, 1894-1957.

Eckersdorff, Robert F.

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Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators, and Paperhangers of America. Local 490 (New York, N.Y.)

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French, Daniel, 1908-

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Daniel French was born in Malta in 1908. The family emigrated to Toronto, Canada when he was a young child. French followed his brother Ralph to New York City in 1926 and got a job working for the Equitable Insurance Company. Hard times during the Depression convinced him to take up his brother's trade as a painter. He was organized into the Painters union in 1934. A corrupt kick-back scheme which deprived him of the increase in his union wages led him to participate in a protest ac...

Bishop, James (James D.)

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Knights of Labor

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Labor organization. From the description of Minutes, 1886. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122536651 From the guide to the Knights of Labor minutes, 1886, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) Organized in Philadelphia in 1869 as a general labor organization to protect and promote American laborers. One of ther goals was to prohibit the importation of foreign labor under contract. In 1880's, California's local Assemblies worked to ban use of Chinese immigrants and to pr...

Paperhangers Local Union 490.

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Paperhangers Local 490 was organized in New York City as a single exclusive local in 1864. After its early formation as section 70, Paper Hanger's Local Union of America, it merged with the Knights of Labor and a few other affiliations to establish a name for itself. From this it emerged as a semi-autonomous group, with bargaining power of its own. From the 1950s, the Local remained an outpost of opposition to the leadership of the District Council. It began in 1953, whe...