New York State AFL-CIO records, 1950s-1990s.

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New York State AFL-CIO records, 1950s-1990s.

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The collection includes large donations of material from the files of the Federation's Legislative Department (Series I and III); these materials include background material, reports, correspondence and copies of proposed legislation on a wide range of topics of concern to the labor movement: housing, health care, safety issues in the workplace, immigrant rights, individual political campaigns and issues relating to collective bargaining rights. Also included are General Files (Series II), combining material gathered by many officers and staff of the federation, including for the later period, files of President Edward J. Cleary and Secretary-Treasurer Paul F. Cole, both elected in 1984.

173 linear ft. (173 boxes).

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Cole, Paul F.

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Cleary, Edward J. (Edward John), 1906-

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New York State AFL-CIO

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The New York State AFL-CIO is a statewide federation of trade unions that has its origins in the Workingmen's Assembly, founded in the mid-1860s, and the New York State Branch of the American federation of Labor, founded in 1888. The two organizations merged in 1898 to form the New York State Workingmen's Federation (whose name was changed in 1910 to the New York State Federation of Labor). Its primary aim was to lobby the state legislature in favor of legislation of concern to the labor movemen...