Photographs, 1938-1973. 1957-1970 (bulk).

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Photographs, 1938-1973. 1957-1970 (bulk).

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The bulk of this collection, made up largely of 8 x 10 copy prints, documents the annual conventions of the Union Label Trades from 1957-1970. Ten scrapbooks of newsprint material provide additional background material on the conventions and activities sponsored by the Council. The convention shots focus on displays of union-made goods and of portraits of the leadership. In addition, Miss Union Maid and other women union members are frequently shown modeling stockings. Several photoprints are of special historic interest. One image shows a mass rally at Madison Square Garden with placards telling the President, "Veto the Taft-Hartley Slave Labor Bill". Another shows the Bookkeepers, Stenographers and Accountant Union of the AFL (probably in the 30's) staging a comical picket to organize office workers. "You have nothing to lose - organize". Photoprints of the Union Label Week parade in 1938 with a variety of Union floats and of the Union Label Stores and Department office are also included. Finally a series of 8 photoprints by Alexander Archer (undated, but ca. 1940s) of Butcher's Union # 174 members in their workplace is of interest.

6 linear feet.

Churchill County Museum

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SNAC Resource ID: 7583990

Churchill County Museum

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American Federation of Labor. Bookkeepers, Stenographers and Accountants Union.

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The United Office and Professional Workers of America (UOPWA), a union of clerical workers largely in the private sector, was formed in 1937 by the merger of fourteen American Federation of Labor (AFL) white collar unions (most prominently the New York City-based Bookkeepers, Stenographers, and Accountants Union Local 124646) and nine independent unions, totaling 8,600 members. It quickly secured a charter from the newly-organized Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). UOPWA, whose membersh...

Avrutin, Harry, 1917-1988

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Harry Avrutin, a native of Philadelphia, was a charter member and business representative of Local 153 of the Office and Professional Employees from 1945 to 1949. He became secretary-treasurer of the New York State Union Label and Service Trade Department and of the Greater New York and Long Island Council, A.F.L.-C.I.O., in 1949. He held both positions at his death. Mr. Avrutin joined the New York City Central Labor Council in 1974 and retired in 1986. Avrutin died of cancer of the liv...

Union Label and Services Trade Council of Greater New York.

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Union Label and Service Trades Council of Greater New York.

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In 1911, the Central Union Label Council was chartered by the Union Label Trades Department of the American Federation of Labor. Like its parent body which had been established by Samuel Gompers in 1909, the New York City Label Council was dedicated to "a more systematic and thorough agitation and demand for union-made and particularly union label products, and for the patronage of union organizations issuing them." In 1916 the Council sold stock to establish a department store of u...

Archer, Alexander.

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