Department Store Strikes and Organizing, Papers, 1930-1941.

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Department Store Strikes and Organizing, Papers, 1930-1941.

Pamphlets, leaflets, newsletters and clippings relating to sit-down strikes, department store and office workers strikes and organizing in the 1930's. Contains printed material from the Office Workers' Union, an affiliate of Trade Union Unity League, and of Department Store Employees' Union, Local 1250 (New York).

5 linear in. (1 box)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7585936

Churchill County Museum

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Department Store Employees' Union.

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Office Workers' 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...

Trade Union Unity League (U.S.)

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