Elmer J. Maloy collection, 1916-1989.

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Elmer J. Maloy collection, 1916-1989.

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The Elmer J. Maloy Collection documents the political career of a union activist in the steel industry. The bulk of this collection (1937-1945) contains a series of news clippings that document Maloy's decision to run as the first democratic mayor of Duquesne, Pennsylvania. The clippings concentrate on his decision to run, his victory, his immediate reforms, and his mayoral career. There are a small number of photographs of Maloy and those related to his political or union career. As interest in the steel industry and labor unions became more evident, Elmer Maloy was interviewed in 1967 and 1968 by members of Penn State University. The collection contains a transcription of each of these interviews. Both contain valuable information about Maloy's early career as a day laborer and explanations on his opinions on unionization. In addition, they also give a good deal of information about his political career, his work in the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, as well as his work after his two terms serving as mayor were finished.

0.25 linear ft. (1 box)

University of Pittsburgh

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University of Pittsburgh

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Maloy, Elmer J.

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Elmer J. Maloy was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1896. He later moved to the city of Duquesne, Pennsylvania. In 1911 at age fifteen, Maloy dropped out of high school to take a job as a water boy at Duquesne Works. Wanting to learn a skilled trade, he apprenticed to become a Millwright, which repaired and serviced various machines in the mill. He left the Duquesne Works for a short stint in the United States Army in 1918. When he went to war, Maloy was promised by the superintendent of the...

United States Steel Corporation. Duquesne Works.

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Steel Workers Organizing Committee (U.S.)

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Carnegie Steel Company.

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The Carnegie Steel Company was the final conglomeration of several steelworks, bridge companies and coke works under Andrew Carnegie. Beginning with the firm of Carnegie, Kloman and Company, Andrew Carnegie created several more steelworks and other companies eventually becoming the largest producer of steel in the world, while also becoming the richest man in the world. In 1901, Carnegie sold his interests in his company to financier J.P. Morgan, leading to the development of the United States S...

American Federation of Labor. Committee for Industrial Organization

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