Aluminum Workers of America, New Kensington, Pennsylvania, local unions records, 1929-1978.

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Aluminum Workers of America, New Kensington, Pennsylvania, local unions records, 1929-1978.

Aluminum Workers of America, New Kensington, Pennsylvania, local unions records, 1929-1978.

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This collection documents the organized aluminum workers in New Kensington, Pennsylvania, from their first affiliation with the American Federation of Labor as the Aluminum Workers of America (AWA), to their reconstitution as an industrial union also called the Aluminum Workers of America (1937), and finally with the United Steelworkers of America (1944). The collection consists primarily of a single alphabetical file in which correspondence is integrated with documents pertaining to agreements, proposals, union-management records, meeting minutes, journals, constitutions and by-laws, seniority lists, grievances, job classifications and rates, and transcripts from hearings. The file also embraces such topics as "letters of abuse, criticism, and slander of Local 18356 and its officers" (undated), union boys and girls clubs (1940-1942), a union drum and bugle corps (1940-1942), returned veterans (1945-1947), and the Local 302 baseball team (1947). Apart from the alphabetical file, there are 16 dues and meeting minute books from Local 18356, Local 2, and Local 302, and 16 account books pertaining to their parent organization, the Aluminum Workers of America (AWA), and that organization's nominal continuation within the USWA. Although records in this collection date from after the merger of the AWA into the USWA, the collection was collected and maintained at the local level under the name of the Aluminum Workers of America.

32 volumes.

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