Papers of Steffi Domike, 1946-1994.

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Papers of Steffi Domike, 1946-1994.

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These files reflect Steffi Domike's participation in United Steelworkers of America Local 1557 while working as an electrician's apprentice at U.S. Steel's Clairton Coke Works and her work after being laid off in 1982 with the Mon Valley Unemployed Committee and as a filmmaker and producer. The collection contains correspondence, newsletters, minutes, reports, and articles about local steelworkers unions, rank and file movements, and the international steelworkers union during the 1970s and 1980s. Materials relating to the oral history project Crashin' Out: Hard Times in McKeesport and the documentary film/book The River Ran Red include grant proposals, research articles, publicity articles, and archival images. Video regarding local labor issues and the production of Women of Steel and The River Ran Red is also present.

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Steel Valley Authority of the Mon Valley

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Steffi Domike moved to the Pittsburgh area to work as an electrician's apprentice at United States Steel's Clairton Coke Works. During her tenure there, she emerged as an active member of USWA Local 1557 and represented the local in the USWA District 15 Civil Rights Committee. In 1979, she ran for recording secretary of the local. Domike was involved in Steelworkers Stand Up, a newsletter which described problems and spread notice of important union events at the Clairton Coke Works and other mi...

Mon-Valley Unemployed Committee

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United Steelworkers of America. Local 1557 (Clairton, Pa.)

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Local 1557 (District 13, now District 10) was a founding member of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (1936-1942) and the United Steelworkers of America (USWA) (1942-). Its former president, Daniel W. Hannan, was then staff representative of the USWA Safety and Health Department, and led the USWA attempt to secure government controls of coke oven emissions. From the description of United Steelworkers of America, Local 1557 records, circa 1945-1973. (Pennsylvania State University ...

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Sadlowski, Edward

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