Records, 1937-1968.

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Records, 1937-1968.

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The collection includes minutes from the PWOC Local meetings and some papers from the Sausage Strike of 1949. The records relating to the Colonial Strike in 1954-1955 include correspondence, newsclippings and press releases.

5 boxes (4 linear feet)

University of Massachusetts at Boston, Healey Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7656814

University of Massachusetts at Boston, Healey Library

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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...

United Packinghouse Workers of America. Local 28

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Local 11 of the UPWA started as a local union in 1935 and became part of the Packinghouse Worker Organizing Committee of the CIO in 1937. In 1943 the UPWA-CIO was established and Local 11 became the official Boston local. After the Colonial Strike of 1954-1955, Local 11 was de-certified by the NLRB as a result of a vote by non-strikers. The union was recertified as Local 616 in 1956 after the strike settlement. From the description of Records, 1937-1968. (University of Massachusetts ...

Packinghouse Workers' Organizing Committee

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