Records of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, Local 101 (Pittsburgh, Pa.), 1937-1976.

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Records of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, Local 101 (Pittsburgh, Pa.), 1937-1976.

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The minutes give a concise and practically continuous outline of the activities of Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union Local 101 between 1940 and 1974. Most of the minutes are of meetings of the executive board, with occasional membership meetings, stewards council meetings and various special meetings. The local's contracts with Kaufmann Department Stores, Inc. from 1938-1976 illustrate evolving gains in compensation and benefits. An arbitration case, 1949-1950, shows the Local joining forces with its AFL rival, the Retail Clerks International Association Local 1365, to seek retroactive increases for commission salespeople at Kaufmann's. Data sheets, which record earnings of commission workers, are included in another file. All but one of the photographs in the collection are of Philip Murray, head of the CIO in the 1940s. There is also a photo of a portraitist posed next to his painting of CIO Vice-President David McDonald.

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Kaufmann's Department Store (Pittsburgh, Pa.)

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Kaufmann's Department Store was founded in 1871 by four brothers. Their first store was located on Carson St. and moved to the North Side in 1876. In 1879, they moved to their present location at Fifth and Smithfield. From the description of Kaufmann's collection 1896-1965. (Historical Society of W Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 47757760 ...

Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union. Local 101 (Pittsburgh, Pa.)

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United Department Store Employees Union, Local 101 of the United Retail Employees of America, CIO, was chartered on June 1, 1937. In 1940, the name of the parent organization was changed to the United Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Employees of America, and later shortened to Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU). The Local's offices were at 1001 Keenan Building, 643 Liberty Avenue, until 1948 when they were moved to 134 Market Street. Local 101's first success was the uni...