Papers, 1964-1993.

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Papers, 1964-1993.

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The select collection of papers, annotated by Blum, contains correspondence, flyers, legal documents, reports, bulletins and newspapers which relate to Blum's activity within District Council 9 and as an International Representative. These include the organizing activity and litigation concerning the Hardwood Finishers, the Schonfeld-Blum alliance and split, the 1967 and 1977-79 Trusteeships in District Council 9, opposition election literature written by Carl Blum and other opponents, documents on Local Union 490, the Paperhangers' Local, the Pension Plan, 1981 Special Trusteeship in District Council 4, Buffalo, Local Union 1815, Long Island, news clippings on corruption within the Painters, and copies of "The Constitutionalist", a rank-and-file opposition newspaper directed at the International.

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