United Telegraph Workers records, 1928-1996, (bulk 1940-1986).

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United Telegraph Workers records, 1928-1996, (bulk 1940-1986).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/60863069

The collection includes records of predecessor and rival unions, correspondence, bargaining files, bulletins, convention records and legal files. There are materials related to the history and structure of the union and its predecessors; correspondence of the divisions, the executive board, and Presidents E.L. Hageman and D.J. Beckstead; collective bargaining materials, including documents related to a 53 day strike in 1952; records of a joint labor management task force on quality of life, dating from the late 1980s; and legal materials relating to a case in which Western Union tried to argue that its divisions constituted separate corporate entities.

26 linear ft. (26 boxes).

New-York Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 7789614

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Hageman, E. L.

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Beckstead, D. J.

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American Communications Association

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Association Western Union Employees.

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Western Union Telegraph Company

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The bark Golden Gate and clipper ship Nightingale were both involved in the Western Union Telegraph Expedition to British Columbia, Alaska and Russia to survey areas where the Western Union Telegraph Company planned to construct a telegraph line linking America and Europe. The line was never completed. Charles S. Bulkley was Engineer-in-Chief and Charles M. Scammon was Chief of Marine. The bark Golden Gate was the flagship of the expedition from June 1865 to March 1866, after which the clipper s...

Commercial Telegraphers' Union of America

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United Telegraph Workers

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The United Telegraph Workers, known until 1968 as the Commercial Telegraphers' Union of America, emerged from a series of struggles between smaller unions of private and postal telegraph workers. During the 1930s and 1940s, its chief rivals were the American Communications Association (known until 1937 as the American Radio Telegraphists Association), and a company union, the Association Western Union Employees. Pitted against a single dominant employer, Western Union, and beset by technological...