Atlanta Labor Council records, 1914-1969.

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Atlanta Labor Council records, 1914-1969.

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The collection consists of the Atlanta Labor Council records,1915 (1956)-1969, composed of office files, financial documents, membership records, minutes, photographs, and printed material of the Atlanta Labor Council and affiliated organizations. Political campaigns and elections (general elections of 1960 and 1964, congressional elections of 1962 and 1966 and all local elections), politicians (Governor Ellis Arnall, representative James Mackay, Governor Lester Maddox, Sam Massell, Governor Carl Sanders, Representative Charles Weltner), and organized labor's role in community affairs (Community Chest, Community Council of Atlanta, Red Cross, Salvation Army, United Appeal) are the principal subjects of the extensive office files. Prominent in the political material are the AFL-CIO and the 5th Congressional District Committees on Political Education, including the Women's Activities Department and its role in voter registration. More than half of the records concern membership and financial affairs. Included also are minutes of the Atlanta Federation of Trades, 1956-1958, one of the two predecessors of the Atlanta Labor Council, and of the Council from its first meeting in May 1958, through August, 1967. Labor leaders frequently mentioned are Atlanta Labor Council President R.J. Butler, Georgia State AFL- CIO President J.O. Moore, AFL-CIO Community Services Representative in Atlanta Jesse Lester, AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer William Schnitzler, and AFL-CIO President George Meany.

12.5 linear ft.

Georgia State University

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Georgia State University

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Schnitzler, William Frank, 1904-

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AFL-CIO. Atlanta Labor Council

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The Atlanta Labor Council was formed in 1958 by the merger of the Atlanta Federation of Trades, AFL, and the Atlanta Industrial Union Council, CIO. From the description of Atlanta Labor Council records, 1914-1969. (Georgia State University). WorldCat record id: 51003508 Formed in 1955. Consists of local unions from the Atlanta metropolitan area. From the description of Atlanta Labor Council records, 1971-1985. (Georgia State University). WorldCat record id: 51003...

Atlanta Federation of Trades

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Meany, George, 1894-1980

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Labor official; interviewee d.1980. From the description of Reminiscences of George Meany : oral history, 1957. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122587289 President, AFL-CIO, 1955-1980. George Meany (1894-1980) was elected president of the American Federation of Labor (A.F. of L.) in 1952. His efforts to unite his organization with its rival, the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), was successful, and he was ...