United Locomotive Workers Union newsletters and fliers, 1937-1939.

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United Locomotive Workers Union newsletters and fliers, 1937-1939.

The collection consists of three newsletters: CIO Special United Locomotive Workers Union NLRB Election Issue, June 1937; Locomotive Exhaust Vol. I, No. I, November 1938; and, Alco Union News, Lodge #1551, Vol. 1, #1, December 1939. In addition, the collection includes meeting announcements for United Locomotive Workers Union Lodge 2054, S.W.O.C., and other SWOC communications. Some of the fliers were written by President John M. Fanning; another is signed by Joe Gilbert, Executive Secretary of the Trade Union Committee on Unemployment & W.P.A.

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