Cedar Rapids CIO organizing in the packinghouse industry : scrapbook, 1937-1939.

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Cedar Rapids CIO organizing in the packinghouse industry : scrapbook, 1937-1939.

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Scrapbook of newspaper articles from papers in Cedar Rapids, Des Moines, Omaha and other midwest towns. The articles cover unions and labor law for the period 1937-1939. Many of the articles discuss international and non-Iowa local unions, though items relating to Iowa are included. Topics covered include the CIO's attempts at organizing packinghouse workers, steel workers, and United Production Workers. In addition to the scrapbook, other items in the collection include an AFL Federal Labor Union No. 18530 charter (1933), correspondence and lists, loose newspaper articles, strike bulletins and flyers, and a souvenir program from a United Packinghouse Workers Local Union no. 32 rally.

.2 linear ft. (2 boxes)

Iowa State Historical Society

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Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.)

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The Committee for Industrial Organization was formed by the presidents of eight international unions in 1935. The presidents of these unions were dissatisfied with the American Federation of Labor's unwillingness to commit itself to a program of organizing industrial unions. In 1936, the A.F. of L. suspended the ten unions which proceeded to organize an independent federation, the Congress of Industrial Organizations. The CIO subsequently became the A.F. of L.'s chief rival for the leadership of...

Packinghouse Workers' Organizing Committee

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Congress of Industrial Organizations (Cedar Rapids)

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The T.M. Sinclair Packing Company began operating as a slaughtering and processing plant in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 1870. In 1913 the plant became affiliated with Wilson and Company. In 1935 the plant's name was changed to the Wilson-Sinclair Company. By 1918 the American Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America began organizing employees. The initial efforts failed in 1921 but were resumed in 1933. Between 1937 and 1939 the local union went on strike at the Wilson-Sinclair Plant, continu...

United Packinghouse Workers of America

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Wilson-Sinclair Company.

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