United Steelworkers of America, District 27 records, 1936-1973.

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United Steelworkers of America, District 27 records, 1936-1973.

This collection consists of alphabetized subject files of United Steelworkers of America (USWA) District 27 office including: correspondence; labor-management records; and documents concerning contracts, conventions, education, finances, investigations, legislation, pensions, political action, religion, safety, and wages. Some records date from local union activities in the era of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC) (1936-1942) and carry over into the era of the USWA (1942- ). The subject file incorporates extensive correspondence with Ohio companies and local unions, with the national organization, and with the Ohio branch of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO). Among the correspondents are USWA executives Philip Murray, David J. McDonald, I. W. Abel, Howard R. Hague, and Arthur Goldberg; John S. Johns, a USWA district director; and Herschel Kriger and Lee Pressman, both counsels for labor groups.

36 cubic feet.

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Goldberg, Arthur J. (Arthur Joseph), 1908-1990

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Arthur Joseph Goldberg (August 8, 1908 – January 19, 1990) was an American statesman and jurist who served as the 9th U.S. Secretary of Labor, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, and the 6th United States Ambassador to the United Nations. Born in Chicago, Illinois, Goldberg graduated from the Northwestern University School of Law in 1930. He became a prominent labor attorney and helped arrange the merger of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Indus...

United Steelworkers of America

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The United Steelworkers of America (USWA) was established 22 May 1942, by a convention of representatives from the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers (AAISTW) and the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC) after an intensive organizing initiative by the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in the 1930s. After mergers in 2005, it was renamed United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union (USW...

Steel Workers Organizing Committee (U.S.)

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Ohio CIO Council

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McDonald, David J. (David John), 1902-1979

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David J. McDonald (b. Nov. 22, 1902, Pittsburgh, Pa.-d. Aug. 8, 1979, Palm Springs, Calif.), American labor leader and president of the United Steelworkers of America from 1952 to 1965. From the description of McDonald, David John, 1902-1979 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 12022897 David John McDonald was active in the United Steelworkers of America. From the description of David J. McDonald papers, 1931-1970. (Pennsylvania State Univer...

Johns, John S., 1915-1995

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Pressman, Lee, 1906-1969

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Lawyer. From the description of Reminiscences of Lee Pressman : oral history, 1958. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309723084 ...

Murray, Philip, 1886-1952

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Philip Murray was one of the most important American labor leaders of the twentieth century. As president of the Steelworkers Organizing Committee (SWOC), the United Steelworkers of America (USWA), and the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), he played a pivotal role in the creation of industrial unions as well as the utilization of federal government support in the growth of unions in the United States. Philip Murray (May 25, 1886-November 9, 1952) was born in Blantyre, Scotland, on May ...

Kriger, Herschel

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Hague, Howard, 1902-1990

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Ohio AFL-CIO

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Abel, I. W. 1908-1987.

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United Steelworkers of America. District 27 (Canton, Ohio)

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District 27 was created when the United Steelworkers of America was founded in 1942. The District office coordinated the activities of local unions in Ohio (some of which preceded the formation of the district) until district restructuring in 1995. From the description of United Steelworkers of America, District 27 records, 1936-1973. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 607097857 ...